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Campus-Wide Collaboration
Building the Culture of Engagement
What We’ll Cover
• Revisiting Governance
• Collaborating across campus
• Faculty engagement
• Students as Colleagues
Governance: Where You’re
Housed
Consider your…• Access to resources
• Visibility and location
• Access to students
• Access and status with faculty
• Institutional respect
• The potential for building a culture of service
Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Student Affairs
Fit with broader
departmental mission;
student-led programs;
larger scale; access to areas like Residence
Life
Fails to become integrated at institution’s
core (faculty); lack of
curricular change;
co-curricular devaluation
Many campuses have started
from this vantage point
Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Academic
Affairs
Build in access to and
engagement of faculty; with care, may be
able to build in research and scholarship
Service can be episodic if only tied to courses;
must put attention on
student leadership; may
miss opportunity for campus
developmental model
Having program under
Academic Affairs does
not guarantee curricular
change
Some Governance Considerations
Strengths Concerns Other
Integrated Center
May leverage resources &
change; curricular and
co-curricular integration; high
potential for campus-wide
institutionalization
Coordination and decision-
making involves more time & people; top down vs.
bottom up drivers
Many established
campuses seem to be moving
here, but change is still
hard
Regardless you want…• Staffing
• Budget
• Authority
• Institutionalization
Questions? Other ideas?
Collaborating Across Campus
Opportunities to Collaborate
Leverage Bonner to build
campus-wide culture
Academic Departments
Chaplain/Religious Life
Public Relations/IT Department
Student Life/Affairs
Career Services
Multicultural Affairs
Study Abroad
Admissions
Opportunities to Collaborate
Student Life/Affairs student development
shared trainingintegrated calendar
student groups / service eventslearning communities
Opportunities to Collaborate
Admissionsrecruitment
pipelinesselectiondiversity
Opportunities to Collaborate
Career Services career advising & training
fairs & employment career exploration
internships
Opportunities to Collaborate
Multicultural Affairs diversity training
recruitment community relations
special projects
Opportunities to Collaborate
International Affairs study abroadservice tripsinternships
training & courses
Opportunities to Collaborate
Public Relations/IT Department
media news & events
websitebranding
Opportunities to Collaborate
Chaplain/Religious Life service groups
vocational discernmentadvising
workshops
Opportunities to Collaborate
Academic DepartmentsCBR & research
courses (designator)High-Impact Practices (HIPs)
departmental strategiesminor/major
• Individual
• Teams (Carnegie or High-Impact)
• Advisory Boards
• Formalized
Key Strategies for Collaboration
• Access to and support of senior leadership
• Financial support (i.e., work study, stipends) for students to engage in service
• Visibility in online and written communications (from recruiting to alumni news)
• Faculty engagement and curricular links
• Lived mission, strategic plans, and budget that reflects community engagement priorities
Key Factors for Institutional Support
• Strategically build your team—starting with students
• Creatively consider new programs—from more Federal Work Study placements to partnering with national organizations
• Integrate, integrate, integrate
• Communicate frequently, positively, and strategically with supervisors—manage up
• Build a core constituency on and off campus
Recommendations for Building Support
Questions? Other ideas?
Faculty Engagement
• Connects with the mission of higher education and institution
• Can enable engagement of faculty and more students in addressing the needs and wants of community
• Scholarship, research, and capacity-building projects
• Learning outcomes and measures
Why It's Important & Integrative
A Framework and ContinuumTransactional------->Transformational------->Institutional Alignment
•Short-term investment •Important and possibly necessary •May not lead to long-term relationships
•Ongoing and repeated•Involve more relationship building & program development
•Involve several faculty members and senior leaders•Can help foster changes to institutional policies and culture.
• Access resources (from Bonner, Campus Compact, etc.) to offer a few transactional supports
• Invest in some key transformational strategies
• Faculty Development
• Students as Colleagues
• Get connected to institutional alignment strategies
Recommendations
• Resource Library
• Assist faculty with site connections and transportation
• Share publication opportunities
• Take to Bonner Conferences; share professional development
• Involve in doing inventories, like Bonner Self-Assessment Tool
• Help faculty members plan reflection and present to classes
• Faculty recognition and awards
• Write letters of reference for tenure portfolios (www.ccph.org)
Transactional
• Faculty Development Workshops and Seminars (Bonner can connect you with people/models)
• Faculty Fellowships (formal role)
• Student Faculty Pairing/Teaching Assistants (Students as Colleagues)
• Course/Program development support grants (Mini-Grants for Service-Learning, CBR, etc.)
• Faculty Advisory Boards
• Departmental Strategies
Transformational
• Strategic Planning
• Student Learning Outcomes/Assessment
• Course Designators
• QEPs/Accreditation and External Reviews
• Tenure & Promotion Support
• Link with High-Impact Practices
Institutional Alignment
• Link Bonner Program with academic study from the get-go through:
• Cornerstone Activities
• Sequence of courses and high-impact practices
Final Key Recommendation
Example: Link with Cornerstones
Exploration • First Year
Trip• linked with
First Year seminar
Experience • Second Year
Exchange• linked with
Service-Learning Course or Learning Community
Example • Third Year
International Trip or Leadership Role
• linked with Undergraduate Research experience
Expertise • Capstone
service placement
• linked with Capstone course
Example: Academic Pathway
Exploration• Lead in course• First Year
seminar• Learning
community
Experience• Government/
policy courses• Poverty courses• Service-learning
(potentially tied to placement)
• Learning community
Example• CBR coursework
(methodology)
• Advanced service-learning coursework
• Undergraduate research
• Public Policy Issue Brief assignments
Expertise• Capstone course /
Senior Seminar
• Undergraduate research
• Honors’ thesis project—tied to Bonner work
Utilize model
•Public Policy
•Poverty
•International perspective and issues
•Issue-based knowledge
•Place-based knowledge
•Diversity
Students as Colleagues
Theory
•Classroom, Project Design, On Campus
What We’ll Cover1. How students work with faculty
- Students’ roles
2. What training students need to reach colleagues level? - How students are selected - How training is implemented
3. Model or structure (diagram)- How does it build capacity?
4. Benefits to faculty/students
5. Overcome challenge of unequal power between students and faculty?
- Students taken serious?
Student - Faculty Fellowship Model
Example: Allegheny College
Roles:
- ACES Fellow- Students designed
- Gateway Project
- Values, Ethics and Social Action Major
Students Work on Course DesignExample: Siena College
- Instructor uses a guide to course design (online) to teach students how to turn goals to assessment to activities
- Students are paired with faculty
- Students are taught how to develop faculty rapport, and facilitation skills
- Students learn to design effective workshops outside the classroom
Student Leadership & Campus Wide Engagement
Example: Berea CollegeCoalition of projects model
StudentDirector
ProgramCoordinators
Team Members
Volunteers
Example: Rider UniversityCommunity Service Council
Student Leadership & Campus Wide Engagement
• Club and Org Representative met bi-weekly • Created Combined Calendar of Projects • A student intern managed the council • Assisted with planning the service days
Addressing Power Dynamics
- Understand and respect student voice
- Continue to clarify role of student
- Students learn as they go
- Students tap into faculty for expertise in discipline/field