CUMU Conference 2018: Full Schedule

7:00am CDT

Breakfast

Continental Breakfast available in the Grand.

Monday October 22, 2018 7:00am - 9:30am CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

7:00am CDT

Registration

Monday October 22, 2018 7:00am - 4:00pm CDT
French

8:00am CDT

CUMU-TDC Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative Convening

Invite Only. This convening will be for the 33 CUMU members that are participating in the CUMU-TDC Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative. Specific agenda to be shared in September.

*Also in Walton South

Monday October 22, 2018 8:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Walton North

9:30am CDT

Building community through neighborhood/university story sharing

As an anchor institution with a mission to work for the common good, the University of Dayton (UD) commits itself to building community and addressing challenges with the city of Dayton to realize a shared future of equity, justice, and wellbeing.

Partnering with Dayton neighborhood associations, UD coordinated this project to build community, raise awareness of human rights issues and neighborhood assets, and inspire local social action. Our storytelling project is titled “Facing Dayton: Neighborhood Narratives,” and is one of many “Facing Project” endeavors across the nation.

The project included faculty, staff, and students building relationships and sharing stories with 31 Dayton community members. The stories include lived experiences of Dayton neighborhoods, and they incorporate both the injustices impacting neighborhoods and the diversity and love that brings new life. Student writers captured the stories as part of their English courses, and two Art and Design faculty designed, illustrated, and published a book that will circulate throughout the metro library and UD’s library system.

To further raise awareness and inspire action, the stories were shared through artwork created by faculty, students, and the storytellers, including a public exhibition of typographic posters, graphic design books displayed at the Human Rights Conference, short documentaries shared online, art created by the storytellers, and portrait photographs.

Collaboration, recognizing community strengths, voicing injustices, and calling forth social action to achieve community wellbeing have been the underlying themes of this project; thus, aligning well with the conference theme of “Partnering for Equity” for the future health and vitality of our cities.

Speakers

Kelly Bohrer

Director of Community Relations, University of Dayton, School of Engineering

Community EngagementCommunity Engaged LearningCommunity PartnershipsLocal and Domestic Student ImmersionsSustainabilitySocial Justice educationInclusive Excellence in the Classroom

Ajanti George

Graduate Assistant, UD/Fitz Center for Leadership in Community

Misty Thomas-Trout

Assistant Professor, University of DAyton

Monday October 22, 2018 9:30am - 10:00am CDT
Tudor

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

9:30am CDT

Can Youth Stories, Concerns, and Participation Transform Campus Civic Engagement?

What keeps us up at night? We are childhood studies scholar-practitioner-administrators who are deeply committed to supporting children’s conceptions of justice and dignity. In the city of Camden where Rutgers southern campus is located, Camden’s children under the age of eighteen make up 35% of the city’s population, making the campus a dominant anchor institution in a city that is disproportionately young, impoverished, and Black/Latinx. We ask:

• How can we reframe our campus civic engagement inquiries, practices, and collaborations through deeper guidance and participation from children and youth?
• What unique obligations do we have as constituents of a dominant anchor institution in a host community with disproportionate child poverty?
• How do we resist the surveillance of youth and instead, encourage youth to set the stakes and participate in campus civic engagement actions?

Our scholarship centers children and youth’s perspectives of daily life growing up in Camden, and we highlight and learn from their narratives of ingenuity, creativity and deep reflections on racism, violence, family life, schooling, and community. We seek to challenge ourselves and welcome participants to join us in deepening our inquiries and connecting children’s concerns and participation more directly to our unique campus civic engagement platforms and actions. In this session participants will join us in reflecting upon approaches to child-centered inquiry in service to children’s justice and campus civic engagement.

Speakers

Lauren Silver

Associate Professor, Rutgers University–Camden

I'm a feminist ethnographer and through my teaching, scholarship, and community work, I strive to inform and be informed by transformative justice with young people and communities in Camden, NJ and across urban spaces. I teach courses in youth identities, urban education, gender... Read More →

Nyeema Watson

Associate Chancellor for Civic Engagement, Rutgers University—Camden

Monday October 22, 2018 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Eerie

Community Conversation, Diversity and Inclusion

9:30am CDT

Inspiring Action! Building and Sustaining a Coalition that Supports Change

Facilitators will present a model for a mutually beneficial higher education/community partner coalition and facilitate a conversation to help you sustain or start efforts in your own community. The Western New York Service-Learning Coalition (WNYSLC) was established in 2003 and has grown to encourage and support a variety of meaningful campus-community collaborations. The WNYSLC currently involves 10 institutions and over 100 community partners. Its work has been transformational for Western New York while also being uncertain and challenging at times. It’s goals include 1) to facilitate the offering of effective and meaningful service-learning and community engagement experiences for students, institutions of higher education, and community service organizations; 2) to openly engage all higher education institutions and organizations that are interested in partnerships in sharing ideas, resources, and practices; and 3) to serve as a national model of an effective collaboration between and among higher education institutions and community organizations.

Participants will hear about successes and challenges with fundraising, strategic planning, coalition structure, and sustainability from a community partner and an institution perspective, and will participate in small group discussions to come away with an action plan to bring back to their own community.

Speakers

Maureen MacLefko

Community Partnership Manager, Unyts

I work at a local nonprofit organization in Buffalo, NY and have been serving on the Western New York Service Learning Coalition Steering Committee for the past 7 years. In this role, I have had the opportunity to strengthen partnerships with local Colleges and Universities by offering... Read More →

Laura Rao

Director, Civic and Community Engagement, SUNY Buffalo State College

Monday October 22, 2018 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Michigan

Mini Workshop, Sustaining the Work

9:30am CDT

Staying in the fight: Contemplative practices for the stressed and distressed, Community Engagement Professional

In order to sustain the work in higher education Community Engagement Professionals must also engage in intentional practices that sustain themselves. Drawing from 25 years in community engagement work in higher education and the community, the presenters will facilitate an interactive session on ways that community engagement professionals can stay motivated, inspired, and engaged in this work. Through discussion, active learning, personal reflection time, and contemplative practices, this session will engage participants in conversations and activities around civic engagement and action through an equity lens as a lifelong practice, and the capacities to sustain working across differences to solve problems and create common ground. Particular focus and attention will be given to Practitioners of Color who face the barriers of structural racism.

Speakers

Elaine Ikeda

Executive Director, California Campus Compact

Since 2000, Elaine Ikeda has served as the Executive Director of California CampusCompact (CACC). She has over 20 years of experience supervising volunteers in higher education, conducting research on service-learning, volunteerism and community service, and disseminating service-learning... Read More →

Marisol Morales

Vice President for Network Leadership, Campus Compact

Marisol Morales serves as the Vice President for Network Leadership for Campus Compact. In this role Morales provides guidance, inspiration, and practical support to network staff across the country, helping state and regional directors achieve local goals while advancing shared network... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Astor

Mini Workshop, Sustaining the Work

9:30am CDT

Partners becoming Leaders!: How a college envisioned and fostered a K-12 College Pipeline and helped the partners run with it!

The Port Richmond section of Staten Island is a predominantly Latino and Black community where only 36% of students currently graduate high school and enroll in college or post-secondary training programs.
Three NYC principals from K-12 schools in Port Richmond will share the development of a community education pipeline that linked their three schools to each other and Wagner College in order to provide at-risk students with college access knowledge and college level academic skills. The three presenters will provide the perspectives of community partners working closely with Wagner College and their Office of Civic Engagement as well as their Education Department. The presenters will share resources and information about the recent expansion of the college pipeline down to the elementary school level and the creation (and funding) of a College Center within a K-5 school after implementing the same model at the intermediate school. All three schools have used Wagner College staff and students to develop and implement a Leadership Academy to develop leadership skills of students beginning in grade 4 while also developing a college-going culture through continuous activities from grade 2.

Attendees will be able to think through questions and challenges in building a K-12 College Pipeline in their own community and will develop a better understanding of how a college can support this work. Time will be dedicated to exploring the characteristics of community education partners, specifically principals and superintendents that best serve the needs of Civic Engagement Offices at the colleges.

Speakers

Anthony Cosentino

Principal, Public School 21 - The Margaret Emery Elm Park School

@Mrcps21My Leadership Vision:Stewardship in education is the ideal that effective school leadership manifests itself through modeled service in support of the learning community. Stewards professionally develop others while instilling confidence and fostering inquiry for individuals... Read More →

Tim Gannon

Principle, Port Richmond High School

Tim was principal of Port Richmond HS on Staten Island for 12 1/2 years from 2005 to 2017. In that time he partnered with Wagner College President Dr. Richard Guarasci to establish the Wagner College Port Richmond Partnership as well as the Port Richmond Partnership Leadership Academy... Read More →

Andrew Greenfield

Principal, Port Richmond Community High School

Andrew Greenfield has lived and worked on Staten Island for most of his life. After graduating college with a degree in Political Science and earning two Masters Degrees, Andrew began his career in education in 1993 teaching Social Studies and serving as Dean of Students at Fort... Read More →

Nicholas Mele

Principal - I.S. 51, Edwin Markham Middle School

Monday October 22, 2018 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Parkside

Panel Presentation, Education Equity and Student Success

10:00am CDT

Executive Committee Meeting (Invite Only)

Monday October 22, 2018 10:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Marquette

10:45am CDT

Dan Sommerville Test

Speakers

Dan Sommerville

Outreach Specialist, Towson University

Hello! I am the Outreach Specialist at Towson University. If you have any questions regarding the conference or just want to say "Hi", I will be running around the conference ready to help.

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Monday October 22, 2018 10:45am - 11:00am CDT

11:00am CDT

Thousands of Assets: Building Healthy Communities, Scientific Minds and Civic Leaders with MAPSCorps

MAPSCorps (Meaningful, Active, Productive Science in Service to Communities) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based on Chicago’s South Side. The organization grew out of the South Side Health and Vitality Studies, led by the research laboratory of Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP, at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Lindau’s interdisciplinary lab uses an asset-based, community-engaged approach to engineer solutions to injustice. Beginning in 2009, in collaboration with a broad range of community stakeholders and university researchers, this work gave life to the MAPSCorps program, now in its ninth consecutive year providing meaningful work experience and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Health) training to high school youth.

In 2016, MAPSCorps became an independent nonprofit, but it continues to do its work in close collaboration with University partners across the country. Our presentation will focus on our dual service-learning strategy, which empowers college-aged student field coordinators to educate and empower their high school-aged field research teams. Together, they develop professional skills and STEM fluency by working collaboratively to answer pressing community-generated research questions while building a publicly available dataset of community assets to resource public health interventions in some of the country's most underrepresented areas.

Speakers

Kenny Riley

Program Manager, MAPSCorps

Christopher Skrable

Office of Civic Engagement, University of Chicago

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am CDT
Tudor

Best Practices, Population Health

11:00am CDT

Should universities get involved in prison education? Higher Education's Role in Breaking the Cycle of Generational Incarceration

California State University, Los Angeles (“Cal State LA”) is the only university in the state of California to provide an in-person BA degree completion program for incarcerated students. Cal State LA is also one of 67 universities in the country to participate in the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program.
The case for educating prisoners who have time-limited sentences is well documented. Rand’s 2013 meta-analysis found that those who participate in correctional educational programs have 43% lower recidivism rates than those who do not and individuals enrolled in college courses have 51% lower odds of recidivating. Recent data also makes it clear that on an annual basis, it is cheaper to educate than to incarcerate.
However persuasive the data may be, there are still detractors. Many share the same skepticism. Why should our universities be compelled to educate prisoners? What is the benefit of educating individuals who may have been convicted for multiple crimes? Why should convicts receive an education when there are many law-abiding citizens who cannot afford to go to college? Why can’t a university focus on “more deserving” students who have a whole future ahead of them?
This community conversation is designed to explore these and other difficult questions related to the university, the public good, and education’s role in serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students.

Speakers

Taffany Lim

senior director, Center for Engagement, Service, & the Public Good - Cal State LA

Cal State LA operates the only in-custody BA program for the incarcerated in the state of California. It is a partnership with the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation and the Vera Institute. Taffany Lim is the Senior Director of the Center for Engagement, Service... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Eerie

Community Conversation, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Can Female Leaders Mitigate the Negative Effects of Racial Diversity? National Leaders and Structural Shifts

Racial/ethnic diversity within groups, organizations, and even countries can have negative externalities if left unmitigated. The effects of inequality and exclusion have been shown to hinder overall productivity. This study posits and finds that the presence of a female national leader mitigates such effects. We used a mixed methods approach to unpack the mechanisms of female national leaders’ impact on their country’s diverse populations. An experimental study (N = 183) revealed that female leaders are expected to increase empowerment and improve economic outcomes more than male leaders in ethnically diverse settings. We analyze of over 5,800 leader-year observations in 126 countries from 1950 – 2009 and found that female leaders in highly ethnically diverse countries had mitigating effects on diversity that resulted in positive economic growth. We further analyzed follower’s behavioral patterns using self-reported subgroup survey results s from over 244,000 subjects in 77 countries and found significant evidence revealed that female leaders are associated with greater tolerance for diversity and self-expression, especially in highly diverse countries. Lastly, analysis of over 5,800 leader-year observations in 126 countries from 1950 – 2009 revealed that female leaders in highly ethnically diverse countries had mitigating effects on diversity that resulted in positive economic growth. To validate these mechanisms associated with female national leadership, we design a unique country-level experimental study (N = 183) which revealed that female national leaders are expected to increase empowerment and improve economic outcomes more than male leaders in ethnically diverse settings.

Speakers

Susan Perkins

Associate Professor of Strategic Management, University of Illinois at Chicago

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Michigan

Lightning Presentation, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusion through a University and Art Museum Partnership

Community settings allow individuals to connect and interact socially with others, and engage in new learning experiences. One type of community setting, public art museums, provide rich, cultural experiences for individuals that are distinctive and often repeated, due to changing exhibits. Unfortunately, for individuals with disabilities, these settings can have a negative impact if the physical environment or the social interactions with docents impede individuals’ abilities to function and benefit from this type of community engagement. Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts has a unique partnership with a nearby art museum. This partnership encourages faculty-led projects and student involvement that enhance the missions and strategic plans of both the art museum and the university. This presentation will highlight some of these projects specifically from two health-related programs. One project from the Occupational Therapy Department examined the environment to assure accessibility for people with physical disabilities, and the other project from the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department investigated the delivery of docents’ presentations for individuals with communication disorders, such as hearing loss. Although each project examined different aspects of the same museum experience for people with disabilities, the recommendations benefit all museum visitors and increase community engagement.

Speakers

Linda Larrivee

Dean of Education, Health, and Natural Sciences, Worcester State University

Joanne Gallagher Worthley

Professor, Worcester State University

I have been teaching in higher education for 25 years. My primary areas of interest are universal design and community engagement.

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Michigan

Lightning Presentation, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Looking Back to Move Forward: Understanding the Historical Context of the Urban University

Interactions between urban institutions of higher education (IHEs) and their surrounding communities have a long history. While urban IHEs have great potential for affecting positive impact in the communities they serve, many also have relationships with their communities that are tainted with histories of unfair and inequitable practices. As IHEs explore new strategies for deploying their intellectual and place-based resources, they must also acknowledge and come to terms with their unsavory histories in order to bring about transformational and sustainable change.

In order to better understand and realize a Virginia Commonwealth University of the 21st century, the Division of Community Engagement developed a lecture to revisit VCU of the 19th and 20th century. Since its first delivery, the lecture has been highly requested and delivered across the institution to varying audiences of faculty, students, staff, and community members. It exposes participants to both founded and unfounded accusations against VCU (e.g., unfair land use and resident displacement, unethical research practices, and the involuntary use of bodies for medical training) in order to begin conversations towards truth, reconciliation, and healing.

Using the VCU lecture as a model, this workshop will prepare CUMU participants to develop similar learning opportunities for their own institutions. We will share lessons learned from our development and delivery of this lecture, including the incorporation of principles of andragogy as well as evidence-based techniques for unconscious bias recognition (e.g., mindfulness exercises and small group reflections), in order to maximize participant readiness and ability to learn.

Speakers

Jennifer Early

Director Community-Engaged Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

Jennifer Early works in VCU's Division of Community Engagement as director of community-engaged research to support and advance community-engaged research (CEnR) as part of the university's strategic effort to align university-wide community engagement and impact.With over a decade... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Michigan

Lightning Presentation, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Return on Equity

This lighting presentation will present the concept of Return on Equity for institutions and communities who utilize or seek to utilize a racial equity lens to their work . The concept makes connections between the investments institutions make in promoting and developing equity initiatives and linking that investment to the goal of full participation in civic and community life, especially those most impacted by structural oppression.

Speakers

Marisol Morales

Vice President for Network Leadership, Campus Compact

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Michigan

Lightning Presentation, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Training effective urban practitioners through community based learning

The new Masters of Urban Strategy graduate program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA is an interdisciplinary program focused on training leaders who are able to address complex real-world problems. Urban Strategy students benefit from experiential, community-based learning and develop relationships with communities they hope to impact throughout their careers. Combining hands-on training with critical self-reflection, the program builds skills in group dynamics and intercultural communication.

During this session, participants will learn about the unique benefits of a Side-by-Side course in which graduate students and community residents came together to learn from and with Drexel faculty and community partners. Participants will consider the ways in which universities can become laboratories for the relationship-building and problem-solving we need to revitalize our cities.

Speakers

Susanna Gilbertson

Consultant, Educator and Social Worker, Blue Door Group

Susanna Gilbertson, MSW is a founding partner of The Blue Door Group, a consulting firm located in Philadelphia, PA. Blue Door supports the development of skilled and engaging communicators, facilitators, problem-solvers and planners through training, consulting, planning, dialogue... Read More →

Andrew Zitcer

Program Director, Urban Strategy, Drexel University

Andrew Zitcer directs the Urban Stategy program at Drexel University where he is an assistant professor. His research concerns the role of arts and urban revitalization, and has been published in Urban Geography, Urban Affairs Review, and Journal of Arts Management, Law and Socie... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Michigan

Lightning Presentation, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Creating a Culture of Equity

Creating a culture of equity within today's colleges and universities requires attention to both the more visible signs of a culture but also the assumptions, the mental models and the unintended consequences of organizational policies and practices that shape the environment in which the members of a campus community interact and learn with and from each other. In our urban settings, the permeable boundaries between our campuses and the broader community also shape our experiences and the resources we have to work with to pursue our goals. In this mini workshop, we will explore some of the common components of a coherent equity approach and how to apply those experiences to our own particular environment and campus culture. This session will be informed by Volume 29, Number 1 of the Metropolitan Universities Journal, “Equity and Inclusion: Expanding the Urban Ecosystem” that was recently released. We will explore ways to create more equitable and inclusive environments on our campuses and in our communities and how our institutions and the communities in which we live and work can shape each other.

Speakers

Judith Ramaley

Trustee, Portland State University

Dr. Judith A. Ramaley is President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service at Portland State University in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and President Emerita of Winona State University. From 2005-2012, she served as President of Winona State University (WSU... Read More →

Jacinta Saffold

Associate Director for Diversity Equity, Association of American Colleges & Universities

Marisa Zapata

Assoc Prof/Director, Portalnd State University

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Astor

Mini Workshop, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Marshaling the Collective Power of Communities and Higher Education for the Creation of an Authentic and Transformational Stakeholder Engagement Framework

UNIDOS por RGV marshals the collective power of community-based and university-based constituencies through a culturally relevant process that respects the power of place and the wisdom of people, building a sustainable stakeholder engagement framework based on shared decision making and reciprocal partnerships.
This workshop will walk participants through a candid discussion of the innovative and sometimes arduous process through which community leaders from low-income communities have become integral community engagement partners, transforming institutional processes and systems related to teaching, learning and research.
Participants will learn about an innovative approach that relies on a community learning exchange framework that facilitates a process where community leaders are in on-going conversation and relationship with university students, faculty, staff and administrators. This process relies on the deep knowledge held by community leaders, a knowledge base that originates in lived experiences and that are place based. It is further guided by a theory of change framework that suggests we can simultaneously examine and enact the change we want to see in ourselves, in our institutions, and in our communities. Workshop participants will hear about concrete examples of on-going collaborations between community leaders and university partners. They will also learn about the nuances that have shaped this unique process that by all accounts has been transformational.

Speakers

Jose Martinez

Associate, Llano Grande Center

Esther Herrera Martinez

Operations Manager, La Union del Pueblo Entero

Esther Herrera Martínez is a proud immigrant from Mexico raised in South Texas. As an undergraduate student leader, Esther discovered the world of community organizing around issues of immigration, access to higher education and equal opportunities for low-income and migrant youth... Read More →

Miguel Guajardo, Ph.D.

Professor in the Education and Community Leadership, Texas State University

Dr. Miguel Guajardo is Professor in the Education and Community Leadership Program and a member of the doctoral faculty in School Improvement at Texas State University. His research interests include issues of community building, community youth development, leadership development... Read More →

Virginia Santana

Education Coordinator, A Resource In Serving Equality

For 20 years, Mexico-born Virginia Santana has served her immigrant, low income communities (i.e. “Colonias) in South Texas along the Mexico border where she was raised. In 1991, under the guidance of the founder of ARISE, Inc., the late Sister Gerrie, Virginia co-developed its... Read More →

Cristina Trejo-Vasquez

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Monday October 22, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Parkside

Mini Workshop, Education Equity and Student Success

11:30am CDT

Challenges in Transitioning from Service Learning to Sustained Community Partnerships to Address Health Equity: A Decade of Experience--UMSON

Health equity and social justice are foundations for modern nursing. All nursing students participate in service learning experiences that address unmet needs of high-risk populations. In 2017, 394 entry-level students completed 35,460 community clinical hours in 108 settings and 15 graduate students completed 4,725 hours in community organizations. Service learning is challenged by multiple factors: community needs are year round and semester-based experiences result in gaps in services; significant faculty time is needed to maintain sites; safety issues in the community are magnified by perceptions of danger in Baltimore; and time devoted to community engagement and service learning is not typically rewarded in academic systems. To address these challenges, we now integrate clinical education across program levels and faculty participate in new models that expand the reach of services through practice contracts in community sites, faculty and student volunteerism during semester breaks, and grant supported partnerships. Other schools are now joining us to develop interprofessional approaches to address the health of communities. Challenges remain but our experience provides valuable lessons: the proof that community-academic partnerships benefit both the community and the school, the importance of continuity of service outside of the academic calendar, the value of professional services agreements in clinical sites, the need for grants that incorporate service learning, the importance of regularly addressing safety, the value of highlighting transformative experiences of students and opportunities to change the health of communities, and the importance of considering sustained community engagement in criteria for re-employment and promotion.

Speakers

Susan Wozenski

Assistant Professor and Chair, University of Maryland School of Nursing

Susan Wozenski, JD, MPH, joined the University of Maryland in 1993 and currently serves as chair of the School of Nursing Department of Family and Community Health and as primary faculty for the MPH Program in the School of Medicine. She coordinates the SON’s Population Health core... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Tudor

Best Practices, Population Health

12:00pm CDT

Lunch Buffet

Lunch in the Drake/Gold Coast.

Monday October 22, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

1:00pm CDT

Plenary: Fostering Opportunity on Chicago’s South Side

The University of Chicago, like many urban universities, is located amidst struggling communities that continue to endure the consequences of racial and economic segregation. Universities have a unique and central role to play in addressing the challenge of economic and social exclusion and in identifying strategies to grow our cities so that the neighborhoods of which they are comprised are places that foster opportunity.

Over the last decade, the University has focused on addressing the separation of campus and community and invested heavily in its anchor and civic engagement activities. Equally important, community leaders and residents have begun to see the University as a community resource, investor, knowledge creator, convener and partner.

Join Derek Douglas, the University of Chicago’s Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs, and Torrey Barrett, Principal at Imagine Group, as they discuss how they’ve collaborated to enhance the quality of life of residents in a way that is mutually beneficial.

This plenary will be moderated by Julia Stasch, President of The MacArthur Foundation.

Introductory Remarks: Bobbie Laur, Executive Director, CUMU

Moderators

Bobbie Laur

Associate Vice President, Outreach, Towson University

In my role with the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, I focus on connecting our members with each other to address critical issues facing our institutions and cities and identify opportunities for collaboration and transformation!In my role at Towson University as... Read More →

Speakers

Torrey L. Barrett

Principal, Imagine Group

Torrey L. Barrett is a native of Chicago and the principal of Imagine Development Group, a minority-owned and certified leading boutique real estate development firm with significant local experience in market-rate, mixed-income and affordable housing. Prior to starting Imagine Development... Read More →

Derek R.B. Douglas

Vice President for Civic Engagement, University of Chicago

Derek R.B. Douglas joined the University of Chicago in January 2012. As the Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs, he leads the University's local, national, and international urban development and civic engagement efforts. He also spearheads the University's efforts... Read More →

Julia Stasch

President, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Julia Stasch is President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies with assets of approximately $7 billion, and offices in Chicago, Mexico City, New Delhi, and Abuja, Nigeria. With a broad background of leadership in the business... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Drake/Gold Coast

Plenary and Receptions

2:00pm CDT

Coffee Break

Coffee in the Grand.

Monday October 22, 2018 2:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

2:30pm CDT

Democracy in Action: City Government and a University Leading Change

With a student body that is majority first-generation and majority students of color, Democracy in Action at Cal State San Marcos creates pathways for students – many from historically underrepresented communities – to be civically engaged in local government, which contributes to the conditions for lasting change. This 18-month partnership matches backlogged city government projects with university academic courses. Faculty agree to redesign their syllabus integrating the project into the course curriculum while also incorporating civic engagement learning outcomes. The city gains creative, contemporary, research-based solutions for backlogged projects. Students gain practical application of course content and learn about the role of city government. Student learning results in an increase in self-efficacy for the students, a belief that they can impact their neighborhood, and opportunities for career. During this session, participants will hear about the program structure and format, examples of projects completed, and overall impact. Participants will also hear about lessons learned when working with a municipal partner, which center around organizational culture, differing values, communication patterns, and leadership. Democracy in Action is adapted from the program model of University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Project.

Speakers

Scott Gross

Associate Vice President, California State University San Marcos

Elizabeth Matthews

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
Tudor

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

2:30pm CDT

Richmond's East End Health Education and Wellness Center: Aligning University and Health System Engagement Efforts with Community Needs

Two years ago, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) asked CUMU: How do urban universities leverage our resources to address pressing problems in our communities while enhancing our academic mission? Since that “Big Thinking” dialogue, VCU initiated a process to answer these questions, culminating in VCU’s East End Health Education and Wellness Center.

The Center, an initiative of VCU’s university and health system, facilitates institution-wide, cross-disciplinary, community-driven efforts to improve the health and well-being of a neighborhood that is undergoing revitalization and has long been recognized as a food desert. It will share a physical space with a grocer and will house care coordination and interventions activities, as well as provide space for community activities. The grocer will hire and source locally, with long-term goals of helping build the local economy through workforce and entrepreneurial development in partnership with community-based organizations and a new culinary institute.

This Community Conversation focuses on the nuances of creating a community-based space that is truly “of the community” while leveraging the full scope of resources of the academic health system enterprise. Participants will explore strategic community-university alignment, while considering, How do we best:

● Create an inclusive community resource and space that promotes social cohesion in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood?
● Engage a neighborhood already fatigued with current community development efforts?
● Coordinate the work of the Center with other community development efforts in a way that best meets community-identified needs?
● Deepen the mission of the academic health system in a community-based setting?

Speakers

Heidi Crapol

DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITIES, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Jennifer Early

Director Community-Engaged Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

BYRON HUNTER

DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Astor

Community Conversation, Population Health

2:30pm CDT

Lightning Session: Achieve LA: A Collective Impact Partnership Between the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles and Cal State LA

Achieve LA, a collective impact partnership between Cal State LA and the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, recognizes that success in higher education begins in childhood and that support for families in underserved communities is essential to improving access to college, and requires a combined effort between education and community organizations. Achieve LA is the first YMCA program of its kind in the nation. This collaborative partnership, part of the YMCA’s Urban Initiative, focuses on four urban YMCAs that serve the most under-resourced communities of Los Angeles. The four YMCAs include the East and South Los Angeles YMCAs, the Crenshaw YMCA, and the Southeast-Rio Vista YMCA. The neighborhoods in these communities experience many challenges, including poverty, low educational attainment rates, unemployment, and lack access to health and childcare services. More than 28,000 youth participate in YMCA programming at these four facilities, and many more need services not currently available because of limited capacity. Cal State LA and the YMCA have committed to making college awareness and preparation central to youth programs at the four YMCA locations. Students who participate in designated programs and meet minimum requirements are guaranteed admission to Cal State LA. Cal State LA and the YMCA share a common mission to empower youth to be socially responsible and career or college ready by supporting communities and nurturing students in their journey to educational and life success. This partnership combines the strengths of the organizations to enhance educational equity and upward mobility by leveraging a collective impact approach.

Speakers

Zuhey Espinoza

Deputy Director for Policy, California State Univesity, Los Angeles

Jose A. Gomez

Provost; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, California State University, Los Angeles

Jose A. Gomez serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Cal State LA. Gomez helps lead Cal State LA's engaged anchor mission initiative.

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Collective Impact Strategies

2:30pm CDT

Lightning Session: Campus Meets Community – Chicago Institutions working together to support community partners

Chicago is a destination for higher education with over two dozen institutions within the city limits and many more in the surrounding areas. With so many institutions working throughout the city, Illinois Campus Compact (ILCC) and America’s Urban Campus (AUC) began thinking about how to support these efforts while giving Chicago nonprofits a voice in the process. Together with the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul, University of Chicago’s Civic Engagement office, and Public and Government Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, we hosted a one-day conference. The morning session, exclusively for nonprofit partners, featured a discussion about successes and challenges with university partnerships. In the afternoon, higher education partners joined to network with community organizations and participate in a series of breakout sessions.

In this workshop, we will talk about Chicago as a context for community-campus partnerships, prior efforts at collective impact, the process of planning this event, participation of nonprofit partners, and the next steps suggested by the conversation. AUC will share the heat map and snapshot that they created plotting the impact Chicago institutions are having on violence prevention in the city as a model for documenting collective engagement. ILCC will talk about the outcomes of the conference for their network, including the community partner advisory board suggested by participants, and curriculum for nonprofits and civic engagement professionals moving forward. UChicago will discuss the implications of the gathering’s findings for their community engagement strategy as a representative anchor institution invested in collective impact for Chicago.

Speakers

Natalie Furlett

Executive Director, Illinois Campus Compact

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Collective Impact Strategies

2:30pm CDT

Lightning Session: Community Partnerships and Enhanced Curriculum: A Model for Preparing Culturally Competent Family Nurse Practitioner Students for Urban Settings

Healthcare in the U.S. is nearing crisis level for several reasons, including lack of access to care and providers. Chronic conditions associated with the social determinants of health (SDOH) are widespread and disproportionately affect vulnerable groups, especially the urban underserved.

Preparing culturally competent family nurse practitioners (FNPs) to take on primary-care roles is one solution for addressing the healthcare deficit and diverse needs of urban populations. This project outlines an academic-practice community partnership model, including intensified faculty and preceptor engagement, preparing FNP students to address healthcare needs of urban populations.
This project, funded by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), examines impact of (1) longitudinal clinical placements with community partners at urban sites; (2) enhanced curriculum addressing the SDOH on FNP students’ ability to provide culturally competent care and interest-level in continued work with urban patients; and (3) enriched clinical faculty/preceptor interaction and education at urban sites.

Project strategies were implemented over 8 months for ten FNP students and are ongoing. Five urban partnerships were established. Students trained at sites for 4-months and participated in an accompanying seminar.
Surveys report employment intentions for graduates. Qualitative data from curriculum interventions were collected from participants to illustrate gains and lessons in providing culturally competent care. Self-efficacy baseline data for working with underserved urban populations will be established for incoming students in May 2018.
Qualitative data suggests strategies increased self-efficacy in working with urban populations and increased interest in post-graduation employment at partnership clinics. Project barriers were noted and addressed regarding identifying preceptors.

Speakers

Mary Jo Blanton

FNP, Universtiy of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Amber Roache

FNP-Program Coordinator, UTC SON

Nurse Practitioner Coordinator for the Family Nurse and Adult Gerontology Acute Care NP Programs at UT Chattanooga. Primary Investigator of the CANDL Grant, a HRSA grant, to improve academic- community partnerships through increased preceptor support, FNP student placement at undeserved... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Population Health

2:30pm CDT

Lightning Session: Engaged Civic Learning: Partnering Faculty, Students and Community for Impact

Rutgers University–Camden faculty members advance the twin objectives of student learning and community development through courses that integrate civic engagement into the curriculum. We call this approach engaged civic learning. Through innovative partnerships with community organizations, courses are developed that deepen students’ understanding of course content through active engagement with communities beyond the campus that result in projects that address community needs. The success of these courses can be measured in the 500% increase in the number of courses offered from 2009-2010 to 2017-2018 and the inclusion of these courses within the general education requirements.

In this workshop session, we will explore the the creation of the engaged civic learning initiative including the Faculty Fellows training institute to support course development, institutional resources and community partnerships that supported course design and implementation, student and community partner feedback. Then, Rutgers-Camden faculty and staff will explore the mistakes, successes, and lessons learned along the way and the changes made to the courses and approaches to deepen the impact of engaged civic learning and community partner satisfaction. Finally, we will assist workshop participants in thinking through particular design/implementation strategies and principles to enhance civic learning through course development.

Speakers

Nyeema Watson

Associate Chancellor for Civic Engagement, Rutgers University—Camden

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

2:30pm CDT

Lightning Session: Its a matter of trust with us!

This presentation focuses on the challenge of building trust when little/none exists between community and campus--when the history (that anyone can remember) is littered with well-intentioned, but unfulfilled promises (on both sides). The transition from opportunistic "one-offs" to an institutional commitment required changed conversations within the institution, but also a "radical candor" with community leaders that needed careful navigation. Participants will also be encouraged (though not required) to discuss their relevant experiences.

Speakers

Kevin Corcoran

Dean, Oakland University

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

2:30pm CDT

Anchoring for the Long Haul: Challenges of Building Long Term Financing for Community Projects

Community projects always involve the issue of sustainability, as even the most innovative projects cannot persist indefinitely without resources. In areas of community development, such as housing, this issue is critical to avoid new housing from becoming as blighted as that it replaced.
Based on experience in the redevelopment of Ypsilanti, Michigan, where every single unit of public housing was renovated or replaced, representatives of Eastern Michigan University and the Ypsilanti Housing Commission will lead a discussion of how grant funding and innovative sources of funding, such as Pay for Success, can be leveraged to build long-term funding for housing and human service programs.
Anchor institutions can also build programming into academic and field experiences to help institutionalize programs, and to provide need in-kind resources.
However, no program design can account for all contingencies, and as a result, long-term sustainability will continue to be an issue for even the best planned projects. Participants will share their solutions to the sustainability question, and their successes and failures in this critical area.

Speakers

Marquan Jackson

Russ Olwell

Assoc Dean, Education and Social Policy, Merrimack college

We are here to present about our early college work in Lawrence, MA, but also would be happy to talk about community engagement graduate programs, jail education or programs for people with disabilities!

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Marquette

Mini Workshop, Sustaining the Work

2:30pm CDT

University/Community College Partnerships: Beyond Articulation

Governors State University in partnership with 17 Chicagoland community colleges has developed an illuminated pathway for students from community college matriculation to university graduation. Now in its 7th year, the program has exceeded expectations, with over 85% of cc transfers to GSU having graduated or on track to graduate. With the support of a Kresge dissemination grant, GSU is engaged in national facilitation of similar partnerships with provision for a planning institute in June 2019. The mini-workshop will be part of the year-long process of assisting universities and community colleges to form viable partnerships beyond articulation agreements--something that is harder to do than it might initially seem.

Speakers

Beth Cada

Interim Provost and VP for Academic Affairs, Governors State University

Elaine Maimon

President, Governors State University

For over a decade, Dr. Elaine P. Maimon has led transformative change at Governors State University (GSU). An upper-division institution until 2014, GSU is now a comprehensive university with a four-year undergraduate program reflecting the best research on general education and with... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Parkside

Mini Workshop, Education Equity and Student Success

2:30pm CDT

Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education: Lessons from the Field

Perhaps more than ever universities and communities need each other to address the challenges they face. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to community engagement in higher education, while having many strong merits, are not fully capable of responding to these changing times.

All too frequently, contemporary community engagement efforts in higher education like service-learning, volunteerism, and community-based research focus more on student learning and faculty research over pursuing measurable change on larger societal issues. Because of this tendency to emphasize campus impact more than community impact most universities are not fully utilizing their ability to be agents of change in their local communities. To respond to our present moment, university and community leaders must develop new ways of partnering that place greater emphasis on mutual benefit.

Place-based community engagement provides a powerful way to creatively connect campus and community to foster positive social transformation. This interactive conversation with three leaders of place-based initiatives will draw upon lessons learned from a new book Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education to present the benefits and challenges of this emerging approach to connecting campus and community. The session will particularly explore how focusing on a geographic area shifts the balance of engagement towards an equal emphasis on campus and community impact.

Speakers

Kent Koth

Executive Director, Seattle University Center for Community Engagement

Kent Koth is the founding director of the Seattle University Center for Community Engagement. Through this role Kent leads the Seattle University Youth Initiative, a long-term commitment by Seattle University faculty, staff and students from all disciplines to join with parents, the... Read More →

John Loggins

Director of Community Engaged Learning, University of San Diego

John Loggins the Director of Community Engaged Learning in the Karen and Tom Mulvaney Center for Community, Awareness and Social Action at the University of San Diego. John works collaboratively as part of a team responsible for ensuring that USD is a global and national leader as... Read More →

Erin O'Keefe

Director, Center for Community, Loyola University (Baltimore)

Erin S. O’Keefe, M.P.P., serves as director for Loyola’s Center for Community, Service, and Justice, overseeing university-community partnerships, student and faculty community engagement, and the university’s York Road Initiative, a place-based community development effort... Read More →

Place Based Community Engagement Workshop Slides CUMU 2018 pptx

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Michigan

Panel Presentation, Collective Impact Strategies

2:30pm CDT

Urban institutions partner to create the Dallas County Promise

About 28,000 students annually graduate from Dallas County public high schools, representing 10 percent of Texas graduates and one percent of U.S. grads. Three of four of these students are low income and only 10 percent achieve a two or four year diploma six years after graduation. To address this low completion rate, a rare partnership of public schools, community colleges, non profit organizatios and four-year institutions came together to create the Dallas County Promise. We propose a panel of stakeholders explaining how the coalition was formed and outlining the pilot Promise that encompasses 31 low income high schools, 9300 seniors that launches fall 2018 with free tuition. We'll talk about how the pilot was funded, organized and carried out. We will describe its uniqueness and provide plenty of take-away materials for participants. The second cohort, with 12 more high schools included, already is in the works.

Speakers

Eric Ban

Managing Director, Dallas County Promise

Chemene Crawford

Associate Vice Chancellor, Student Resources, Dallas County Community College District

Bob Mong

President, University of North Texas at Dallas

Usamah Muhammad-Rodgers

Dallas ISD

Monday October 22, 2018 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Walton South

Panel Presentation, Collective Impact Strategies

3:00pm CDT

Participatory Budgeting Chicago: University-Community Partnerships to Expand Inclusive & Equitable Decision-Making in Municipal Governance

UIC Great Cities Institute (GCI) has been leading the Participatory Budgeting Chicago (PB Chicago) initiative with the aim of building a more democratic Chicago and building capacity in local communities, and a more engaged and informed resident. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB Chicago is a broad collaborative effort that includes over twenty partnerships with participating Aldermen, public schools, city agencies, and community organizations across the city that work to support the efforts of residents in developing projects for PB. Through this broad university-community partnership, GCI works with participating wards and schools to provide training and technical assistance on community engagement and outreach techniques, and how to design their processes.

Since 2012, PB has spread to nine wards and over 25,000 residents have voted to allocate $31 million on 158 infrastructure projects that were co-developed by community members, city agency staff, experts, and aldermanic staff. To increase inclusion and diversity and to engage people who do not normally participate, any resident that lives in a participating ward and is fourteen years of age of older can participate.

This presentation will provide a case study of the partnership with the 36th Ward including the design of their process to include co-decision-making throughout, strategies that have been used to increase diversity and inclusion specifically for encouraging participation of youth and Latinos, and training around actions civics that builds the capacity and leadership of residents.

Speakers

Thea Crum

Associate Director of Neighborhoods Initiative, UIC Great Cities Institute

Thea Crum, MUPP, is the Associate Director of the Neighborhoods Initiative at the Great Cities Institute at University of Illinois at Chicago (2011-present). In this role, she designs programs, raises funds, leads multiple projects, supervises students, and coordinates with community... Read More →

Justin Heath

Director of Policy, Alderman Gilbert Villegas - 36th Ward

Monday October 22, 2018 3:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Tudor

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

3:30pm CDT

Coffee Break

Coffee in the Grand.

Monday October 22, 2018 3:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

3:45pm CDT

A Bioscience Initiative to Elevate Regional Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Cal State LA’s Venture Incubation and Entrepreneur Training Programs

Cal State LA, ranked number one in the nation for the upward mobility of its students, initiated a multi-faceted bioscience initiative in response to local industry need assessments and a regional economic development strategy encouraging the expansion of life science commercialization, lab space availability, workforce development, university partnerships, and bioscience innovation clusters. In collaboration with several public, private, educational, and community-based organizations, a bioscience corridor hub is being developed adjacent to the university, anchored by the University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus, the multinational life sciences company Grifols Biologicals, and Cal State LA. The university will soon open an on-campus bioscience incubator (LA BioSpace) with county, federal, and philanthropic support to address the regional shortage of bioscience facilities for startups and local entrepreneurs. LA BioSpace will provide bioscience startup ventures with lab space and business assistance in a 20,000 square foot facility located on campus to better engage university students, faculty and staff in its operations. In addition, Cal State LA established a bioscience entrepreneurs training program with an i6 Challenge grant from the United States Economic Development Administration. This intensive five-week training program (LA BioStart) delivered by industry experts including the BioCom Life Science Association of California, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, and Cal State LA, prepares emerging bioscience entrepreneurs to successfully launch and manage their business startups. University engagement and alignment with regional goals for economic and educational equity, workforce development, and placemaking are essential principles for propelling the people and places that anchor institutions serve.

Speakers

Zuhey Espinoza

Deputy Director for Policy, California State Univesity, Los Angeles

Jose A. Gomez

Provost; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, California State University, Los Angeles

Jose A. Gomez serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Cal State LA. Gomez helps lead Cal State LA's engaged anchor mission initiative.

Howard Xu

Director of Incubator Development and Programming, Cal State Los Angeles

A Professor of Microbiology at Cal State LA, Dr. Howard Xu also serves as the Director of Incubator Development and Programming, playing a leadership role for the university's bioscience initiative in innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development.

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Tudor

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

3:45pm CDT

Equity and Inclusion for STEM Students with Disabilities at a Major Metropolitan University

A challenge for academic institutions is designing an effective inclusion program for students with cognitive disabilities. To address the challenge, the presenters discuss the practices of an inclusion program in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for determined higher-functioning students with disabilities, an opportunity for metropolitan universities. The program is modeled on governmental requirements, in partnership with non-profit organizations, for inclusive learning with students without disabilities.

The design is a certificate program for higher-functioning students with disabilities having individualized education plans (IEPs) from high schools. Its curricular emphasis is in courses in STEM; and its extra-curricular focus is in exciting experiences in projects of STEM, interacting with students without disabilities, for a period of 3 years. The presenters highlight innovative practices involving mentoring by peer students without disabilities and resources from Disability Services and Technology Services of the university. The presenters introduce inventive funding practices from non-profit organization sources. From the program, the students with disabilities have migrated to industrial opportunities in STEM.

The outcomes are clearly positive for the students with disabilities in identity, learning and sociality and are notably positive for the reputation for the university. The progress is evidence of a proven inclusion program in STEM for a historically marginalized group of nimble students with cognitive disabilities. The presentation will be helpful to administrators interested in partnering with non-profit organizations on inventive inclusion programs and to faculty members and staff of universities interested in proactively but productively supporting those with disabilities.

Speakers

Anthony Joseph

Dr. James P. Lawler

Professor of Disability Studies, Pace University

Dr. James P. Lawler is Professor of Disability Studies and Information Technologies in the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems of Pace University in New York City where he is a non-profit organization partner helping people with developmental and intellectual... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Walton South

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

3:45pm CDT

From College Access to Success: Lessons Learned Moving NYC’s College Remediation & Advisement Programs to the High School Pipeline

The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a comprehensive senior college within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, and a founding anchor institution in 30,000 Degrees – an initiative with Wagner College and St. John’s University to increase the number of baccalaureate degree graduates in Staten Island, NY by 2025. Inspired by the 2013 CUMU conference, 30,000 Degrees seeks to align institutional assets within the P-16 pipeline for mutually reinforcing collaborations. Recently, CSI implemented a CUNY Math Start cohort in New Dorp High School, CSI’s pipeline partner, to help their students prepare for college-level coursework. Under the auspicies of the CUNY Start program, CUNY Math Start’s curriculum seeks to reduce or eliminate remedial math needs and to provide individualized advisement. Cited by the New York Times for its success, the pedagogical approach has proven techniques to help address systemic completion gaps in the P-16 pipeline. Moreover this CUNY Math Start pilot is the first cohort embedded in a high school – bridging NYC’s K-12 Department of Education and the CUNY systems. Following high school graduation and to ensure a seamless transition, the cohort students entering CSI receive dedicated support enrolling into the Accelerated Study Associates Degree Program (ASAP). ASAP is a nationally recognized academic framework that dramatically increases college graduation rates and eliminates achievement gaps through use of a comprehensive portfolio of academic, financial, and social support geared toward low-income and first-generation college students.

Speakers

Crystal Montalvo

Director Community Educational Engagement, College of Staten Island/CUNY

Crystal Vera-Montalvo joined the College of Staten Island/CUNY in July 2018 as the Director of Community Educational Engagement. As a key convener of the College's anchor mission, Crystal manages community-based partnerships, and oversees nationally recognized pre-college programs... Read More →

Ralf Peetz

Associate Provovost, CUNY The College of Staten Island

Susannah Thompson

Director of Curriculum and Instruction, CUNY Start & Math Start, CUNY

As the director of curriculum and instruction at CUNY Start/Math Start, a program that supports a diverse student population from all five boroughs of NYC, I am interested in forging stronger connections between our program and the communities we serve.

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Parkside

Best Practices, Education Equity and Student Success

3:45pm CDT

Strategies for Community Engagement at Simon Fraser University: why place, relationships, responsiveness, and trust matter.

Institutions of higher education across the world are waking up to a fresh and emerging sense of purpose: to mobilize their core strengths and resources towards more effectively addressing the multifaceted problems facing the global community today. At SFU, we’ve been heeding that call but a university like ours, born of “radical” roots in the 60’s, can’t get too comfortable. We have a lot to learn, especially from those with lived experience who are deeply embedded in community.
Addressing complex problems requires a “transformative model of higher education” which challenges the longstanding paradigm of educating students and producing knowledge for the global marketplace, and instead reimagines our mandate within a challenge to have direct impacts on pressing issues through co-created knowledge, shared purpose and responsive practice.
This session will examine creative approaches to community engagement at Simon Fraser University with a focus on why and how we practice community engagement and why relationships and trust are critical components of success. Examples will include place-based programming that supports settlement, increases access to education, and celebrates cultural diversity in the City of Surrey; co-created and responsive initiatives that offer opportunities for arts, culture and economic development in the City of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside; and a program that acts as a credible convenor, fostering university-community knowledge exchange and which provides safe spaces for citizens to be active participants in informed discussions and to identify solutions to public issues.

Speakers

Rachel Nelson

Associate Director, Community Engagement Partnerships and Programs, Simon Fraser University

Hello!Looking forward to virtually meeting you and learning together. I'm Rachel, a wife, mom, daughter, sister, friend and colleague. At work, I'm the Associate Director for Partnerships and Programs at Simon Fraser University’s Office of Community Engagement. With a focus on... Read More →

Janet Webber

Executive Director, SFU Public Square

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Astor

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

3:45pm CDT

Lightning Session: Enhancing Success: Using a point-based system to increase success outcomes for students from under resourced school districts

Students coming to colleges and universities from urban, under resourced schools are not equitably set up for success in comparison to their peers. At UM-Dearborn, students coming from these school districts have historically been awarded scholarships to mitigate this gap; however, money alone was not enough. After recognizing a continuing large and consistent first-year retention gap of greater than 5% (75% vs. 80%) and graduation gap hovering around 12%, it was clear something more was needed.

This is why, through the Office of Student Success, UM-Dearborn created a point based system coupled with a learning community style Program to enhance the success outcomes for these students such as first-year retention, cumulative GPA, and graduation. After the first full year of the Program, first-year retention of the Scholars increased by 9% to 84.7%, surpassing their campus peers, who held steady at approximately 80%, for the first time since the scholarship’s inception. Beyond this, the first-year cumulative GPA gap has narrowed from .39 to .15 and is showing strong indication that this will continue to be the case.

This session will discuss the Program that was developed, the process used to get to where we are, the outcomes achieved, and how we are continually building out and working to scale the Program to serve a broader audience.

Speakers

Tyler Guenette

Assistant Director for Success Programs, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Education Equity and Student Success

3:45pm CDT

Lightning Session: The Alliance at California State University San Marcos: Partnering with School Districts, Students, and Families

Ensuring educational success for diverse learners while simultaneously maintaining rigorous standards and high quality requires a multi-faceted, sustained approach. To that end, and recognizing that there is a difference between simple access to a college education and the successful attainment of a college degree, CSUSM created The Alliance to Accelerate Excellence in Education (known as The Alliance). The Alliance provides a comprehensive, comprehensible pathway to a CSUSM education and is unique in the way that it engages all stakeholders ranging from K-12 school districts to the university campus community to all students and their families. Its focus on supporting the academic, social, and emotional needs of students and families grounds all work. This presentation describes the regional collaborative, explains programming developed in support of its mission, and offers participants the opportunity to make connections between this initiative and their own circumstances.

Speakers

Patricia L. Prado-Olmos

Vice President, Community Engagement, California State University San Marcos

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Education Equity and Student Success

3:45pm CDT

Lightning Session: University Talent Alliance: Career Development through Community Engagement

The University Talent Alliance is a partnership between four neighboring universities in the Pittsburgh region - the University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, Chatham University, and Carnegie Mellon University - to recruit, train, and hire unemployed individuals who lack a four-year college degree and live in under-resourced neighborhoods proximate to their campuses. By providing access to training, mentoring, and wraparound services, program participants will gain the technical, functional, and interpersonal skills required for professional success.

This presentation will provide background on how this partnership formed and how resources are being secured to bring it to fruition. It will highlight relationships with strategic partners including the local community college - Community College of Allegheny County, a consortium for local colleges - Pittsburgh Council for Higher Education, the city's workforce development board - Partner4Work, and a neighborhood-based nonprofit organization - Homewood Children's Village.

Speakers

Kristen de Paor

Director of Economic Partnerships, University of Pittsburgh

I build dynamic relationships and inclusive partnerships that drive innovation, corporate engagement, and equitable community development.

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

3:45pm CDT

Leveraging Resources to Building Civic Leaders and our Local Communities

How can your institution leverage its educational resources to support the civic infrastructure of your city? How is your city investing in future civic leaders? How do you define civic leadership?

In 2015, the University of Chicago set out with an ambitious goal of leveraging the intellectual resources of all five professional schools (Business, Law, Social Service, Public Policy and Continuing Education) to educate rising civic leaders in the City of Chicago for whom there is a dearth of rigorous leadership education. In order to create a program that responds to the needs of the non-profit and government sector, the University of Chicago spent two years conducting research and developed a civic engagement strategy that brought together key stakeholders (government, non-profit, philanthropy, corporations and University leadership) who help inform the curriculum, recruit the target audience and refine the program over time. Together, we are building a collective of talented individual leaders and close-knit networks that help nonprofit and government agencies thrive.

Speakers

Joanie Friedman

Executive Director, Civic Leadership, University of Chicago, Office of Civic Engagement

The role a University should play in recognizing, educating and celebrating civic leadership.

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:45pm CDT
Marquette

Mini Workshop, The Anchor Mission

3:45pm CDT

Collectively We Rise: How Economic Inclusion Strategies Are Benefiting Community And Meeting The Business Needs of Baltimore’s Employers and Institutions.

Baltimore’s collective impact anchor institution strategy, which engages 14 eds and meds through the Baltimore Integration Partnership, has helped spawn significant collaborative efforts to meet community socio-economic needs as well as a recognition that this work addresses the business needs of employers and institutions. HopkinsLocal, an initiative of Johns Hopkins University and Health System, is a three year old initiative focused on buy, hire and build strategies that has led to new economic opportunities for Baltimore businesses and residents while spawning a complementary initiative with 27 businesses who have made their own inclusion commitments. The University of Maryland Partnership for West Baltimore, an aligned strategy between separate but neighboring institutions the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Maryland Baltimore, focuses on four community engagement portfolios including hiring, purchasing, education and health. The work is overlaid with a place-based neighborhood partnership strategy. Humanim, a nonprofit workforce development organization, has launched new job training programs and social enterprises that bridge anchor economic opportunities and the community. The development of these collective approaches across Baltimore and within the institutions has taken significant leadership, commitments, persistence and partnership. The work is not without challenges as institutions work to rewire their processes and policies and develop partnerships to build workforce and small business capacity. This panel will feature a conversation with leaders from Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland Baltimore, Humanim, and the Baltimore Integration Partnership as they reflect on their work, challenges, and the efforts still ahead.

Speakers

Kylie Patterson

Director of Economic Inclusion, Johns Hopkins University

Cindy Plavier-Truitt

Chief Business Officer, Humanim

I have enjoyed a 29 year tenure at Humanim doing exactly what I love most, growing our human service, workforce and social enterprise division. In my current role of Chief Business Officer, I am charged with the development and oversight of our social enterprise division. We currently... Read More →

Kurt Sommer

Director, Baltimore Integration Partnership

Kurt is the Director of the Baltimore Integration Partnership (BIP) which is a collaborative partnership of anchor institutions, funders, nonprofits and public organizations focused on establishing economic inclusion as the business culture of norm in the Baltimore region. The BIP... Read More →

Ashley Valis

Executive Director, University of Maryland, Baltimore

CUMU Group Presentation 20181020 pdf

Monday October 22, 2018 3:45pm - 4:45pm CDT
Michigan

Panel Presentation, The Anchor Mission

4:15pm CDT

Achieving College Readiness through "Strategies for Success", a Dual Enrollment Course

To increase access, equity, and degree attainment, we have redefined college readiness to include the development of non-cognitive skills (Conley, 2008). SLS1510 “Strategies for Student Success” was initially designed to develop financial, coping, self-awareness/control, motivation, and accountability skills for FIU students at risk of academic warning or probation. The successes in this undergraduate course - preliminary data show participating students were more likely to be retained with a GPA above a 2.0 than non-participating at-risk students - led to conversations with local school districts about developing a similar course for high school students and implementation in 16 high schools. The SLS 1510 dual enrollment course was piloted in the 2017-2018 school year, reaching over 800 students. We have received positive feedback and have begun our second iteration of the course.

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss how we approached the development this course, review some key curricular points, address how we assess the course, and provide insight as to how to work with our high school partners to ensure success.

Speakers

Bridgette Cram

Assistant Vice President, Florida International University

Bridgette Cram is Director of Academic Programs & Partnerships at FloridaInternational University, where she works with external partners to operationalize student success initiatives; and the local school boards to ensure success of incoming and current students. Bridgette also... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 4:15pm - 4:45pm CDT
Parkside

Best Practices, Education Equity and Student Success

4:15pm CDT

Cal State LA Downtown: A new campus providing access to education in the heart of Los Angeles

Under the visionary leadership of President William A. Covino, in 2016 California State University, Los Angeles took the bold step of extending its reach into the heart of Los Angeles by opening a new 22,000 square foot facility in Downtown Los Angeles. This presentation will provide an in-depth analysis of the opening of Cal State LA Downtown. The presenters will provide an insider perspective about the ins and outs of launching a new off-campus facility in a city’s urban core. An overview of critical decision points, including deciding to open the campus, construction, the creation and implementation of academic and non-academic programs, and staffing will be provided. The presentation will also explore the operations of successfully running a new facility, such as providing adequate student support services, advising and retention efforts, creating effective learning environments, and other key elements to successfully extend a university’s reach into the local community. The presenters will also discuss how external partners, such as local businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies have been critical to the success of the campus, as well as for creating new programs to meet the needs of learners and employers alike.

Speakers

Eric Bullard

Dean, California State University, Los Angeles

Dr. Bullard serves as the Associate Vice President of International Programs and Global Engagement, and as the Dean of the College of Professional and Global Education, at California State University, Los Angeles.

Harkmore Lee

Associate Dean, Administration, California State University, Los Angeles

Harkmore Lee serves as the Associate Dean of Administration at the College of Professional and Global Education at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). He manages the general operations of the College, directly overseeing several key areas, including Business... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 4:15pm - 4:45pm CDT
Walton South

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

4:15pm CDT

The new MOEC 2.0 (Metropolitan Omaha Education Consortium): Moving from networking to action in order to Meet Our Educational Commitments

The University of Nebraska at Omaha's (UNO) Metropolitan Omaha Education Consortium (MOEC), in its 30th year of collaborative work in public education, has reinvented itself in an effort to meet a shared vision that "all students in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area receive an exceptional education that provides multiple pathways into meaningful careers and a high quality of life in the region and beyond." Twelve school districts and three postsecondary institutions have joined forces to "set transformational goals for student success, launch initiatives focused on dramatically improving student outcomes, and strengthen the connections between our education systems and communities."
The change journey has honored the excellent past work of MOEC but has significantly increased expectations of the members and the community. The first year of the new work established meaningful, measurable, manageable metrics as guideposts to collective work by preschool through postsecondary partners. Specific targets of the first year's efforts included increasing the number of students who completed FAFSA as a precursor of college entry as well as initiating work designed to improve math success for high school and college students.
The new emphasis has augmented the work of traditional task forces by forming temporary strategic work groups designed to focus on specific goal attainment.

Speakers

M. Martha Bruckner

Achievement Plan Executive Director, University of Nebraska at Omaha

I have been involved in public education for my entire professional life, serving as high school teacher, administrator, and as district administrator in several school districts. I served as superintendent of Council Bluffs (Iowa) Community Schools for ten years, and now lead the... Read More →

Nancy Edick

Dean, College of Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Monday October 22, 2018 4:15pm - 4:45pm CDT
Astor

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

4:45pm CDT

Signature Reception

Join us in the Camellia room to close out the first day of the conference with networking before heading out for dinner and enjoying our host city.

Thank you to the reception sponsors listed below. Please visit their table during the reception to learn about programs and projects that support Chicago’s urban and metropolitan communities.

Sponsors

America's Urban Campus

DePaul University

Governors State University

Loyola University Chicago

Purdue University Northwest

University of Chicago

Monday October 22, 2018 4:45pm - 6:30pm CDT
Social Events

Plenary and Receptions

6:00pm CDT

President's Dinner (Invite Only)

Location TBD

Monday October 22, 2018 6:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

7:30am CDT

Breakfast Buffet

Breakfast in Gold Coast

Tuesday October 23, 2018 7:30am - 9:00am CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

7:30am CDT

Registration

Tuesday October 23, 2018 7:30am - 4:00pm CDT
French

8:00am CDT

Metropolitan Universities journal editorial board meeting (Invitation Only)

Speakers

Valerie Holton

Editor, Metropolitan University journal, National Yang-Ming University

Dr. Holton is an active scholar and teacher, a licensed clinical social worker and a professional consultant to universities and organizations. Valerie serves as editor of CUMU's Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ), a quarterly, peer-reviewed outlet for scholarship on cutting-edge issues in higher education. In 2018 she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Social Work at National Taiwan University. There she taught an interdisciplinary graduate course on community-engaged... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Marquette

8:00am CDT

Opportunity Youth Programs and Research Discussion (Invite Only)

Join Annie E. Casey Senior Program Officer Charles Rutheiser and CUMU Strategy Advisor Barbara Holland for a discussion about a potential CUMU and Annie E. Casey commissioned research project focused on programs serving Opportunity Youth. This breakfast meeting will provide an overview of the potential project and discuss next steps and considerations. Please pick up your breakfast from the Drake room on the way to the discussion.

This discussion is invite only. For more information contact Barbara Holland at holland.barbaraa@gmail.com.

Speakers

Barbara Holland

Strategy Advisor, CUMU

Charles Rutheiser

Senior Associate, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Charles Rutheiser is a senior associate in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Center for Civic Sites and Community Change, where he manages national grant portfolios on anchor institutions, housing and community development. A former Fulbright and Inter-American Foundation Fellow, Charles‘s... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Walton North

9:00am CDT

Plenary: Urban Education as Racialized State Violence: What is the Role of Higher Education

Chicago Public Schools enrolls nearly 400,000 students, with a majority of Latinx (46.8%), African-American (37.0%), and low-income families (77.7%). Since 2001, 165 public schools in Chicago have been closed or consolidated. In 2013 alone, Chicago Public Schools carried out the largest school closing in U.S. history when the system closed 50 schools with an enrollment of over 12,000.

Similar school closings have been carried out in other parts of the country including Detroit, Newark, New Orleans, Washington, and Puerto Rico.

These mass school closings disproportionately take place in minority or low-income neighborhoods and have a destabilizing effect. Paired with privatization efforts, this lack of investment in public education negatively affects Latinx, African-American, and low-income families and contributes to the overall disinvestment in these communities.

Join Pauline Lipman, professor of Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education at University of Illinois at Chicago, for an examination on the intersection of politics, economics, race, and education.

Dr. Lipman will look at the history of neoliberal urban policy, racism, and education to clarify what is at stake for communities; relate observations on Chicago’s experience that might be useful in other contexts; and ask us what role our urban-serving institutions can or should play in addressing inequities in k-12 public education.

Introductory Remarks: Howard Rosing, Executive Director, Steans Center at DePaul University

Speakers

Pauline Lipman

professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Pauline Lipman is professor of Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her teaching, research, and activism grow out of her commitment to social justice and liberation. Her interdisciplinary... Read More →

Howard Rosing

Executive Director, DePaul University - Steans Center

Dr. Rosing is the Executive Director of the Steans Center. He oversees the work of Academic Service Learning and the Egan Office for Urban Education and Community Partnerships and supports DePaul's partnership with the Asset-Based Community Development Institute. He works with... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Grand

Plenary and Receptions

10:00am CDT

DePaul University: Paseo Boricua

Community Experience organized by DePaul University

Registration is mandatory. Register here!

Paseo Boricua (loosely translated as “Boricua (Puerto Rican) Promenade” is a six block section of Division Street in the Humboldt Park community in Chicago. This six-block portion of Division Street between two large steel sculpture-reproductions of the Puerto Rican flag is the only recognized Puerto Rican Neighborhood in the United States. Since 1995 it has become a leading center for Puerto Rican culture, food, business and politics in the United States. There are 17 murals that date back from 1980 to 2017 and a walk of fame with 15 bronze medallions, dedicated to outstanding Puerto Ricans. Paseo Boricua also boasts the largest concentration of Puerto Rican restaurants in the United States. There are eight Puerto Rican Restaurants on Paseo Boricua, 10 food trucks in Humboldt Park and five additional restaurants surrounding the park.

Numerous universities across Chicago partner with community organizations along and around Paseo Boricua, often in collaboration with the tour host, Division Street Business Development Association (DSBDA). DSBDA was founded over 30 years ago by a group of local business owner who envisioned an organization that could serve as a center of support and growth for locally owned businesses. Since then DSBDA has provided business support services to the Humboldt Park community. Services include: technical assistance in accessing support from The City of Chicago, Local Alderman, Business Planning Workshops, Safety Meetings, Networking Events, helping entrepreneurs Find Locations, Business Consulting, Project Management, as well as, hosting several annual festivals throughout the year. DSBDA is also a delegate agency of the City of Chicago and its affiliates to provide a stable resource for businesses. Since 1995, DSBDA has been the lead agency in the development of Paseo Boricua.

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Community Experiences

Community Experiences

10:00am CDT

University of Chicago: Polsky Exchange & Community Programs Accelerator

Community Experience organized by University of Chicago
Registration is mandatory. Register here!

As an educator and anchor institution, the University of Chicago operates numerous programs and initiatives that seek to build the capacity of local businesses and organizations and support the vitality of neighborhoods on the mid-South Side. Through two physical sites, the Polsky Exchange and the Community Programs Accelerator, UChicago partners with its community to provide programing that equips businesses and community organizations with the tools needed to sustain and grow. Join us for a tour of each site, opportunities to hear from participants and a lunch from a local mid-South Side business.

UChicago Local and the Polsky Exchange: Through the UChicago Local initiative, the University encourages local purchasing and partners with mid-South Side businesses to provide capacity building supports and procurement opportunities. The Polsky Exchange provides 34,000 square feet of co-working space, a fabrication lab, mentoring supports, and access over 350 educational events.

Community Programs Accelerator: The Accelerator aims to build the organizational resilience and programmatic strength of community-based nonprofits, to support and cultivate community-based leadership and talent, and to nurture a healthy ecosystem of nonprofits serving the mid-South Side of Chicago. In addition, it serves as a platform for innovation for nonprofits seeking to affect community generated progress on addressing community-level needs

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:00am - 2:00pm CDT
Community Experiences

Community Experiences

10:30am CDT

The Behavior Clinic: Key Leadership Factors that have Influenced Collaboration and Partnership

For the past 15 years, the Behavior Clinic has developed a clinical treatment approach to addressing the behavioral and mental health needs of young children, birth to age five who live in poverty. Currently, the Behavior Clinic delivers the Early Pathways treatment through in-home clinical services, and roughly 400 children and their families receive services each year. Sustaining the delivery of these services has required a close collaboration between Marquette University and Penfield Children’s Center. This collaboration has resulted in a training program that promotes skills development among students training as professional counselors and psychologists, training of young professionals who are working on their license, conducting research and distribution of outcomes through media and professional journals, and partnership to raise funds and conduct grant writing efforts. During the presentation, the presenters will discuss how this partnership is sustained and key leadership factors that continue to the success of this program.

Speakers

Alan Burkard

Professsor/Consulting Psychologist, Marquette University/Penfield Children's Center

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Sustaining the Work

10:30am CDT

CUMU Research Agenda: Hyperlocal Engagement and Community Capacity Building

CUMU is interested in developing a research program that facilitates shared inquiry on topics relevant to its membership. This session will focus on the potential for establishing a cross-city research agenda on hyperlocal engagement, instances in which a post-secondary institution has focused its community engagement efforts on a bounded area within its larger city or metropolitan region, often with some form of built infrastructure such as a neighborhood-based community engagement center or other types of physical spaces. Participants will learn about one effort, the University of Pittsburgh’s neighborhood-embedded Community Engagement Centers, as an example of hyperlocal engagement. The group will discuss developing a cross-city study that investigates the relationship between hyper local engagement and dimensions of community capacity such as such as citizen participation, social connections, community empowerment, community satisfaction, collective action, measures of impact/outcomes, community disorder, and quality of life.

Speakers

Lina D. Dostilio

Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Lina Dostilio is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement at the University of Pittsburgh. She is responsible for supporting community-facing work that includes community relations, cultivating strategic opportunities to advance Pitt’s community engagement agenda... Read More →

Kirk Holbrook

Director, Hill District Community Engagement Center, University of Pittsburgh

Barbara Holland

Strategy Advisor, CUMU

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Eerie

10:30am CDT

President's Roundtable (Invite Only)

This working session allows in-depth discussions between member presidents and chancellors and experts on best practices related to the unique opportunities and challenges facing our institutions.

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Drake

10:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Addressing Food Insecurity in Los Angeles Through Public-Private Partnerships

Food insecurity is a major social issue confronting college campuses across the country, and until recently, the scope of this problem was not well documented. In 2016, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, conducted a comprehensive needs assessment of student wellness as part of our institution-wide launch of the Mount Wellness program.

As a private institution with a campus in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, MSMU has a high percentage of first-generation, low-income students, with a close to 70% commuter population – meaning that interventions on campus would have implications for the communities from which our students hail.

Our evidence-based assessment revealed 30% or more food insecurity amongst our primarily urban-based student population. Using a proprietary and advanced analytic tool, we were able to delve deeper into the issue of food insecurity than previous studies that existed, by mapping the federally-designated “food deserts” that exist in Los Angeles county against the zip codes from which our students hail – thereby creating an overlapping matrix with predictive capabilities for the future.

Using this data, we worked with Los Angeles City Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s office to create a first of its kind public-private partnership which granted MSMU access to fresh produce from California farmers. Through our agreement, these food items are delivered to campus and given to students as part of free farmers markets targeted at addressing food insecurity, which have proven very successful.

Speakers

Bryant Adibe

Chief Wellness Officer, Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles

Bryant Adibe, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles. His work and research centers on addressing both institutional and individual wellness and healing.

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

10:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Community Business Collaborative - Creating Opportunity Through Building Websites

This workshop will provide an overview of Drexel University’s Community Business Collaborative
The CBC is a community program that develops websites for local small businesses in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone. To date, the program has developed over 20 different website for business including hair salons, fitness centers, and early childhood education centers. Learn how we identify local businesses, provide web development training to local youth, and relevant civic engagement opportunities to undergraduate students.

This workshop will include the following activities:
Small Business Intake: Step through our intake process to introduce small businesses to the program and gather information about their business to establish their website.
WordPress tutorial: Walk through our self-paced training materials that local youth are using to earn a digital badge in basic WordPress development.

Interactive Discussion: Discuss how this model could be replicated at other universities. Participants will investigate how the CBC could connect to academic sources, project based learning, and further civic engagement opportunities. Workshop presenters will compare these ideas with initiatives they’re seeking with interested faculty members and with local opportunity youth around workforce development.

Participants will earn their own digital badges for participating in the workshop.

Speakers

Andy Stutzman

Director for Civic Technology, Drexel University - ExCITe Center

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

10:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Developing a playbook for inclusive community investment

Participants will be presented with a “Community Investment Playbook,” which will be followed by a facilitated discussion on how to get to the right outcomes. Key components include: > Defining the “playbook” on evaluating which communities to invest behind > Discussion on the combination of public and private interventions needed to develop a community or neighborhood > Discussion on the levers to adjust based on the differences in various communities

Speakers

Charisse Conanan Johnson

Partner, Next Street

Charisse is a Partner at Next Street, a boutique advisory firm that works with small to medium size enterprises and institutional clients to help revitalize communities, grow businesses and create jobs. Charisse leads Next Street's Chicago office and has an extensive background in... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

10:30am CDT

Lightning Session: How to Promote Economic Development: Everything We Need to Know Can Be Learned in Kindergarten

“Just as public and private entities take an active interest in the construction and maintenance of roads, public transportation, utilities, housing and educational facilities to support economic development, quality early childhood education should be considered essential to economic health” (Gruendel, 2009).

There is compelling research to indicate that high-quality early learning is a critical component of economic development for communities. These arguments emphasize that workforce productivity, early intervention and return on investment contribute to stronger communities. However, early childhood educators often do not have the opportunity, outlets or language to articulate the powerful case for backing early education. To bridge this gap, one metropolitan university partners with local business, government, and non-profit organizations to spread this message. The university’s Center for Early Learning brings together a cohort of influencers from the community for a series of interactive sessions, expert speakers and think-tank style networking to explore the value of high-quality early learning as a driving factor for economic development.

Find out about this university’s initiative to equip business leaders with knowledge, tools and strategies to advocate for children and families to promote economic development, strengthen the future work force and improve the quality of life in the surrounding community.

Speakers

Mary Jane Eisenhauer

Associate Director, School of Education, Purdue Northwest

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

10:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Reflections, Lessons, Strategies and Dreams: Strengthening Entrepreneurs and Revitalize the Communities

The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers University – Newark is celebrating its ten-year anniversary. This milestone provides an opportunity to look back at its accomplishment and look forward to advancing a new strategic priorities.

Founded in 2008, CUEED is recognized as the first center of its kind in the nation to integrate scholarly works with private industry, government and non-profit sectors to stimulate entrepreneurial and economic growth in urban environments. CUEED mission is to support entrepreneurs who actively seek to start and grow socially conscious ventures fostering urban renaissance and offer aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners access to a broad set of consulting services and capacity building programs.

Rutgers faculty, staff and students have now provided marketing and financial counsel, business coaching and other advisory support to over 400+ entrepreneurs. These owners are generating over $160 million in annual revenue and have created 580+ new jobs -- bolstering the local economy of Newark, NJ, the state and region. A substantial number of CUEED assisted business have survived past the five-year mark (when most businesses fail) and increased their revenues and profitability.

CUEED has won two international awards for its community-oriented capacity building program for participants with the following demographics:

- 40 percent are based in Newark
- 65 percent are African American or Latino
- 62 percent are women
CUEED has benefited greatly from being embedded in an anchor institution with university leadership that values engaged scholarship and seeks to intentionally have social impact.

Speakers

Lyneir Richardson

Executive Director, Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development

Lyneir Richardson is a Professional Practice Instructor in the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School in Newark, NJ and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED). At CUEED, he leads capacity... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

10:30am CDT

Lightning Session: University-Community Partnerships through Neighborhood Commercial Corridors

This presentation provides a brief history of an initiative at Drexel University’s Center for Public Policy to engage with various communities in Philadelphia through neighborhood commercial corridors (NCCs). NCC stakeholders have to act collectively to realize their corridor as a public good. For instance, store owners might pool their resources through a business association to pay for such things as extra street cleaning, from which they all benefit. Yet precisely because cleaner streets are a nonexcludable good, individual store owners have an incentive to “defect” and not contribute resources, leading to a collective action dilemma (and a less attractive corridor). The extent to which this collective action dilemma has been solved varies widely among the approximately 250 NCCs in Philadelphia. Those NCCs most capable of providing collective goods are typically those that have established business improvement districts (BIDs), or which have active community development corporations (CDCs) or both. Still, these organizations typically have limited resources and often look to larger anchor institutions such as Drexel for help. In these instances, the university’s role is to often to serve as a neutral convener and facilitator, with the frank hope that BIDs and CDCs might also provide employment opportunities for university graduates. In instances where NCCs have been less successful at overcoming collective action dilemmas, the university can play a larger role in advising and consulting NCC stakeholders, once again with the hope that eventually these partnerships might pay off with higher-capacity NCC organizations that might be future emplloyers.

Speakers

Richardson Dilworth

Professor, Department of Politics, Drexel University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton North

Lightning Presentation, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

10:30am CDT

Collective Impact: Inclusive Economic Development in Indianapolis, Indiana

This Collective Impact mini-workshop provides techniques for inclusive economic development based on experiences at IUPUI and in Indianapolis, Indiana. Emphasizing mutually identified strategies have transformed neighborhoods in the 15th largest U.S. city. Presenters will highlight placemaking, business development, and workforce development that exemplify the interplay between community partners, neighbors and the urban university.

IUPUI is the largest University Anchor Institution in Indianapolis. IUPUI’s Anchor mission and culture of community engagement is evident in its pride of place and community and its emphasis on engaged learning, service, and community partnerships. IUPUI’s external Anchor mission includes inclusive hiring practices; workforce development; K-12 tutoring and education programs; local business procurement programs; and grants to encourage employees to live in neighborhoods near campus.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Indianapolis is dedicated to transforming distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities. The LISC Great Places Initiative launched in Indianapolis in 2014 to transform strategic places in Marion County neighborhoods into dynamic centers of culture, commerce and community.

On the Near East side of the city the leadership of a community organization, the John H. Boner Center, with strong endorsements and collaborative efforts from the city of Indianapolis, LISC, and IUPUI led to a Federal Promise Zone Designation. On the Near West side of the city the collective impact has led to the launch of an entrepreneurship center as well as community and workforce development programs. (See 2016 NW video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qku3WLJxOQ.)

Speakers

Teresa Bennett

Assistant Vice Chancellor, IUPUI, Office of Community Engagement

Amy Conrad Warner

Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement, IUPUI

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Marquette

Mini Workshop, Collective Impact Strategies

10:30am CDT

Implementing an Anchor Strategy: A Nuts-and-Bolts Workshop

This workshop is geared towards university administrative staff and faculty who are ready to begin conversations at their universities about aligning institutional business practices to support a local economic inclusion strategy as part of a broader engaged-anchor mission.

Drexel University has built out a three-pronged approach to local economic inclusion: Buy Local, Hire Local, and Build Local. This workshop shares our step-by-step process in each of these areas from initial internal planning to program and process development all the way through evaluation, focusing most heavily on our Buy Local procurement work. The workshop looks at the conversations that need to happen in order to get started, provides a framework for using data to drive the process, and clearly explains the actions that Drexel is taking to build and manage a sustainable local economic inclusion strategy that has benefits for both the university and surrounding communities. Participants will be able to use Drexel’s model combined with the particularities of their own universities’ unique settings to sketch the outlines of a local inclusion strategy that can fit in their local contexts.

Speakers

Jennifer Britton

Director, Communications & Special Projects, Office of University & Community Partnerships

Julie Jones

Assistant Vice President, Procurement Services

Julie Ann Jones is a Project Management and Procurement Strategist who partners with executives, cross-divisional teams, and external entities to strategically source and manage contractual engagements to the financial and product benefit of her sponsor. Julie has a history of transforming... Read More →

j britton j jones drexel cumu procurement presentation pptx

CUMU ProcurementHandout docx

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Parkside

Mini Workshop, The Anchor Mission

10:30am CDT

Community-Based Work-Study: Exploring Diverse Stakeholder Experiences through Collaborative Research

Students, community partners, and university staff will discuss the Community Leaders Internship Program (CLIP) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) through the lens of their participation in a collaborative action research project. CLIP is a work-study funded internship program that places students at non-profits and public schools throughout metropolitan Milwaukee. During their first semester of program participation students enroll in a 1-credit course that seeks to provide a framework for approaching and understanding their internship and foundational knowledge for working within the Milwaukee community. The course also provides an opportunity for critical reflection and professional development. Community partners and university staff work as co-educators and co-supervisors, seeking to create a service-based work and learning experience.

During the spring of 2018, with the intent of implementing a research-based action plan to enhance the incipient program, a group of program stakeholders gathered to answer the following questions, “What are the key components of the CLIP?” and “How does participation in CLIP affect stakeholders?”. Panelists will provide insight into program structures, and explore their roles as workers, learners, supervisors, and educators. They will also reflect on their experiences as collaborative researchers seeking to understand both the key components of the CLIP program and the effects of program participation on stakeholders. Topics for discussion may include benefits and challenges of stakeholder participation, development and maintenance of collaborative relationships, best practices, and suggestions for future improvement.

Moderators

Benjamin Trager

Director of CBL, UW - Milwaukee

I am currently working in the Center for Community-based Learning, Leadership, & Research at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. I am also a PhD student in the Educational Policy and Community Studies Department focusing on hybridized high-impact practices and collaborative research... Read More →

Speakers

Catherine Draeger-Pederson

Executive Director, Friedens Food Pantries

Catherine Draeger-Pederson, MA is a nonprofit entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience empowering people to make a difference in their community. As the Executive Director of Friedens Community Ministries, 2016 BBB Torch Award recipient, she oversees a network of four food pantries... Read More →

Diana Herron

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Angela Reynolds

University Business Specialist, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Since 2003, I have served as the University Business Specialist at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. My UWM career began in the Department of Financial Aid, Student Employment, and Military Education Benefits Office and since 2011, I began serving as the University Business... Read More →

Emily Schubot

Schoo Support Teacher, Milwaukee Public Schools - Lloyd Barbee Montessori

Amaya Varela

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Walton South

Panel Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:30am CDT

Creative Approaches to Building an Infrastructure that Supports an Anchor Mission

Fulfilling an anchor mission involves both community and economic development efforts. How institutions of higher education choose to build the infrastructure to support their anchor mission is often as varied as the numbers of institutions pursuing such efforts. Weber State University located in Ogden, Utah, has taken an innovative approach that involves collaboration with six additional anchor institutions, the development of a new office, leveraging a unique financial structure and engaging in long-term thinking about the interconnectedness between community and economic development.

In this session, the director of the Ogden Civic Action Network representing the coalition of anchor institutions, Weber State University's chief financial officer, and the Vice President for University Advancement who is responsible for legislative relations and economic development will participate on a panel moderated by the Associate Provost responsible for community development. They will explore the process of development, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the innovative infrastructure built to support the university's anchor mission. Additionally, the governing structure, finances and fit with university mission and vision will be explored as key structural elements.

By addressing the deeply-rooted poverty in the East Central Neighborhood of Ogden through evidence-based interventions in health, education and housing many economic development opportunities will emerge. The demographics of this area have been an obstacle to economic development efforts for more than 30 years.

Speakers

Bill Cook

Executive Director, Ogden Civic Action Network, Weber State University

As the Executive Director for the Office of Community Development, Bill is leading the Ogden Civic Action Network initiative. The focus of the Network is to address the 30% poverty that exists in the East Central Neighborhood of Ogden. Even more challenging is the fact that 70... Read More →

Dr. Brenda Kowalewski

Associate Provost, Weber State University

Dr. Brad Mortensen

President, Weber State University

Steve Nabor

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Astor

Panel Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:30am CDT

Poster Session Gallery Time

Posters will be available to view during this time.

Join us for the Poster Session so you can interact with the poster presenters.

October 23 12:30 - 1:30pm
Located in French

Tuesday October 23, 2018 10:30am - 4:30pm CDT
French

Poster Session

11:00am CDT

The Signature Partnership Initiative: Sustaining the Work

The Signature Partnership Initiative is a collaboration between the University of Louisville and the west Louisville community to enhance the quality of life and economic opportunity for residents. The goal is to work with various community partners to improve the education, health, wellness, and social status of individuals and families who live in our urban core. Working closely with residents, the school district, Metro Government, Metro United Way, the Urban League, faith based organizations, and others, the University has coordinated and enhanced existing programs and launched new programs designed to eliminate or reduce disparities that west Louisville residents experience in education, health, economic and social conditions. The University is drawing upon the expertise and energy of faculty, staff, and students from every school and college to deal with the quality of life issues affecting our community. The work was sustained during the first ten years by engaging the constituents; that is, community residents, University stakeholders, and a University-Community Partnership Board; identifying internal and external funding for the work; and addressing critical needs in the community. With input from community residents, the next phase of the Signature Partnership Initiative will have a renewed focus on five key areas; educational attainment, neighborhood development, data and research services, interdisciplinary education and research, and creation of a center for urban initiative. The presentation will detail the role of the University, the community, and key partners in sustaining this work during the first ten years and plans to maintain the momentum.

Speakers

Henry Cunningham

Director of Community Engagement, University of Louisville

Ralph Fitzpatrick

VP for Community Engagement, University of Louisville

Dr. Fitzpatrick is an alumnus of the University of Louisville where he completed two undergraduate degrees with honors in 1974 and master's degree in 1975. He earned a doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.A visionary leader whose skills... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Sustaining the Work

11:30am CDT

Metropolitan Universities Journal Idea Exchange

Have ideas about future issues of Metropolitan Universities, CUMU’s quarterly online journal? Have thoughts about its direction and scope? We want to hear from you.

Join Executive Editor Dr. Valerie Holton for lunch. This open dialogue session is the perfect time to

Meet the guest editor and members of the editorial board
Learn about publication opportunities
Share your ideas about issue topics
Learn about serving as a guest editor
Understand our editorial process
Provide general feedback

Speakers

Valerie Holton

Editor, Metropolitan University journal, National Yang-Ming University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Marquette

11:30am CDT

Lunch Buffet

Lunch and Poster Session in the French/Gold Coast

Tuesday October 23, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

12:30pm CDT

Anchor Institution Impacts on Population Health: Collective Impact and Upstream Interventions

Institutions of higher education have vast potential to affect the health and wellbeing of their communities at a population level. Anchors intentionally apply their institutional effort to this end with varied approaches. One of these, collective impact, is critically important and exceedingly well aligned to anchor work, particularly in the area of population health. This framework recognizes the complexity of health issues which require deep integration and coordination across a variety of sectors (government, business, non-profit organizations, community members, and philanthropy, etc.) in order to achieve long-term goals of population-level health change. Critical to the success of these approaches are backbone organization to provide guidance, technical and scientific expertise, as well as support throughout the entire process. Since 2009, SUNY Buffalo State has served in this role in coalitions aimed at changing health behaviors and creating long-term health change on the West Side of Buffalo.

Anchors can also impact health through more direct delivery of programs and services. In an attempt to address social determinant of health, VCU and VCU Health System partnered with community-based organizations to develop a quick-start construction skills training program. This program was designed to prepare individuals who experience significant barriers to employment (i.e., homelessness, substance abuse, and incarceration) for a higher degree of employment opportunity by equipping them with basic construction skills, essential certifications, and an enhanced social network in the employment market. Since 2017, two cohorts have successfully completed the program, with a near 100% rate of graduates being offered employment following completion.

Speakers

Alan Delmerico

Community Health Behavior Scientist, Center for Health and Social Research

Dr. Alan Delmerico is a Community Health Behavior Scientist at the Institute for Community Health Promotion, Center for Health and Social Research. He received a BA/MA in Economics, an MA in Geography, and a PhD in Geography from the University at Buffalo, the State University of... Read More →

Jennifer Early

Director Community-Engaged Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT
Walton North

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

12:30pm CDT

Lived Experiences of Faculty Who Conduct Community Engaged Research: Challenges, Successes, and Recommendations for the Future

Promotion and tenure processes continue to be critiqued for disadvantaging the communal, interdisciplinary work of faculty and encouraging traditional, siloed research distanced from community (Colbeck & Wharton-Michael, 2006). Many faculty who pursue community engaged research (CER) do so on the periphery of their institutions, at risk of not achieving promotion and tenure. In order to improve the institutionalization of community engagement, we conducted: 1) a content analysis of institution-level promotion and tenure guidelines of four engaged institutions for evidence of CER, 2) a mixed methods study to better understand the lived experiences of faculty (n = 65) to capture their challenges, successes, and recommendations moving forward. The methodology explores both campus-level and school-level policies and realities making the process and results useful to any campus regardless of institution type.

Speakers

Kristin Norris

Director of Assessment, IUPUI Office of Community Engagement

Tracking, monitoring, evaluating, and assessing community engaged activities (e.g., community engaged research, teaching & learning, talent development, pipeline programs, outreach programs, events, technical training and assistance, student engagement) in order to tell a more robust... Read More →

Lauren Wendling

Postsecondary Customer Specialist, TreeTop Commons

Postsecondary Customer Specialist for Collaboratory/TreeTop Commons Higher Education Ph.D student at Indiana University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Sustaining the Work

12:30pm CDT

Exploring the work of Community Engagement Professionals Who Lead or Support Place-Based Community Engagement Initiatives

This session is focused on the practices of Community Engagement Professionals (CEPs) who lead or support Place-based Community Engagement Initiatives. Facilitated by leaders heavily involved in place-based engagement at the University of Utah, Seattle University, and University of Pittsburgh, the conversation will begin with a reflection on the general competency model for CEPs and place-based community engagement and will then transition to a discussion about the unique work of CEPs involved in place-based initiatives.
Community Engagement Professionals (CEPs) are those who have formal administrative responsibilities for supporting community engagement activities in higher education (Dostilio & McReynolds, 2015; Jacoby & Mutascio, 2010). In 2015, under the auspices of Campus Compact, a research team developed a practitioner-validated study of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions CEPs may embody (Dostilio, 2017). Among the growing areas of practice for CEPs is place-based work. Focusing long-term partnerships within a geographic area provides universities with a way to centralize efforts, prioritize partnerships, and seek change on campus and in the community (Yamamura and Koth, 2017).
CEPs who support or lead place-based work occupy hybrid roles – combining the skills and aptitudes of higher education professionals with those of grassroots community organizers – and require shifting between roles such as translator, advocate, change leader, and catalyst (Kuttner, Munro, Byrne, & Schmit, forthcoming). Participants will share their experience of this niche area of work within community engagement practice and build community with others involved with such initiatives across a diversity of institutions.

Speakers

Lina D. Dostilio

Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement, University of Pittsburgh

Paul Kuttner

Erica Yamamura

Associate Professor and Program Director, Seattle University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
Parkside

Community Conversation, Sustaining the Work

12:30pm CDT

Leading from the Middle: Crafting a Presidential Priority for Community Engagement and Partnerships

A new president arrives at your university with a priority to create a framework for outreach, partnerships, and community engagement, what do you do? We have taken an innovative approach toward partnerships and community engagement that harnesses leadership from student affairs, academic affairs, outreach and other entities across campus. This approach may provide the means for replication at other universities that do not have the resources to create centers, but can marshal the talent across a university to design, implement, manage and measure community engagement and partnerships as we have with our community partners in the Baltimore region. Through two investment programs for priority and emerging ideas, we have created a program that forwards community input and assesses outcomes while remaining nimble to engage contemporary questions and challenges in urban Baltimore. In addition to providing information from our program, we will field dialogue from colleagues and ensure take-away strategies for our colleagues looking to enhance their community engagement work including program templates and online resources developed for the session that focus on strategies and working through an equity lens.

Speakers

Matt Durington

Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships, College of Liberal Arts - Towson University

I am a professor of anthropology at Towson University and serve as director for community engagement and partnerships in the Division of Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research. In this role I assist faculty, staff and students in community engagement efforts in Baltimore and... Read More →

Bobbie Laur

Associate Vice President, Outreach, Towson University

Santiago Solis

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, Towson University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
Eerie

Community Conversation, Sustaining the Work

12:30pm CDT

Creating Career Pathways for Youth of Color into Conservation, Parks & Recreation Work: Metro Detroit Nature Network's Collective Impact Strategy

Metro Detroit Nature Network (MDN2) is a partnership of 35+ government, nonprofit and higher education conservation, park and recreation organizations committed to ensuring that all people in the metropolitan Detroit region have access to and actively steward nature and promote ecosystem sustainability. MDN2 has developed collective impact strategies to address issues including: place-making; conservation; green infrastructure; and youth engagement and employment. With 80% of humans living in urban areas, and an industry that lacks diversity, MDN2 has a strong interest in engaging youth of color in its work, as well as attracting them to and supporting their access to the wide variety of existing career pathways. This mini-workshop will provide participants with: an understanding of how to assist organizations to attract youth of color; how to teach urban youth career navigation skills, including badging and related online tools; an appreciation of the increasing need to assist youth in developing strong soft-skills; and a clear understanding of the role higher education institutions can play in promoting evidence-based strategies that contribute to collective impact, equity, student success, diversity and inclusion.

Speakers

Jessica Camp

Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Dr. Jessica K. Camp is an assistant professor of social work in the Department of Health and Health Services at the University of Michigan- Dearborn. She is licensed by the State of Michigan as a social worker for clinical and macro practices, is a Certified Advanced Addiction and... Read More →

Tracy Hall

Executive Director, Office of Metropolitan Impact, University of Michigan-Dearborn

opportunity youth; conservation-related urban collective impact; Carnegie Classification; boundary spanner roles in higher education;

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Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
Walton South

Mini Workshop, Diversity and Inclusion

12:30pm CDT

From Consciousness to Action: The Next Generation of Urban University-Community Partnerships

For the first time in its history, humanity has become a predominantly urban species. By 2050, two-thirds of all humans (some 7-billion people) will live in an urban environment. Cities are now tasked with addressing humanity’s most pressing, endemic and complex challenges. Universities and institutions of higher education are often an underutilized community development resource that possess the physical, intellectual and human resources instrumental in addressing these challenges alongside the collective intelligence and expertise of communities in which they exist.

In response, the Thriving Cities Lab, at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, is undertaking a research initiative on university-community partnerships that will result in the production of a “Field Guide on University-Community Partnerships”. This guide is intended to investigate cutting-edge, best practices for universities, communities, and practitioners engaging in partnerships, to name these frontiers of work, and to identify the necessary civic infrastructure for universities to navigate urban challenges in collaboration with their local communities.

The TC Lab’s research team will lead a hands-on workshop sharing and engaging attendees on the prototype civic infrastructure framework for universities to foster equitable and collaborative partnerships with community stakeholders. This workshop will test out this framework, solicit feedback from participants, and foster dialogue around the central question - what civic infrastructure is critical for anchor institutions to engage in successful, co-designed partnerships with communities in which they exist?

Speakers

Michaela Accardi

Research Program Officer, Thriving Cities Group

Michaela Accardi is a Research Program Officer at Thriving Cities Group. She brings an urban planning, design and equity lens to research initiatives at Thriving Cities Group. Her previous experience in public interest design practice informs her ability to bridge theory and practice... Read More →

Josh Yates

Research Director, Thriving Cities Lab

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
Marquette

Mini Workshop, The Anchor Mission

12:30pm CDT

Mind Matters: A Strategic University Wide Initiative to Improve Inner Well-Being

College students nationwide experience high levels of stress in their quest to earn a degree. The Mind Matters initiative at Cal State LA, led by the University President and First Lady, underscores the importance of well-being to academic success and integrates inner well-being into the framework of university life. A cornerstone of the initiative is the Mind Matters Town Hall, a problem-solving experience embedded within the required Introduction to Higher Education course for first-year students. Students learn about mental health, then participate in a high-impact, problem-solving experience in the Town Hall. More than 1700 students participated in the Town Halls last year. All new freshmen and transfer students learn about Mind Matters and the connection of inner well-being to academic success during orientation. Parents of new students are invited to participate in Parent Academy, a series of workshops designed to help them with their students’ transition to college. Mind Matters has expanded its reach by investing in Mental Health First Aid training and extensive social media marketing campaigns. More than 500 faculty and staff have been trained in the eight-hour course designed to help them assist those experiencing psychological problems. As a result of this training, Counseling and Psychological Services has experienced a significant increase in faculty and staff making appropriate referrals of high-risk students. Mind Matters offers a speakers series, therapy pet visits, podcasts and videos featuring students sharing how they manage stress. Participants will learn how to develop a comprehensive initiative to increase well-being across an entire university.

Speakers

William A. Covino

President, California State University, Los Angeles

Robert Lopez

Executive Director for Communication, California State University Los Angeles

Robert Lopez is the executive director for communications and public affairs at Cal State LA. His office oversees media relations, public affairs, social media, website design, university branding and messaging for the president and senior leadership. Prior to that, he was an adjunct... Read More →

Nancy Wada-McKee

Vice President for Student Life, California State University, Los Angeles

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
Astor

Mini Workshop, Population Health

12:30pm CDT

Poster Session

Below is list of all poster presentations and their presenters. To view the abstracts of each presentation check out the pdf attached:

A Mother’s Voice: Responding to Violence in our Neighborhoods Aleksandra Snowden , Marquette University
Rewarding Engaged Scholarly Work: The Policy Development Process Aloha Balza, Florida Atlantic University
The Behavior Clinic: Helping Children in Poverty with Behavioral and Mental Health Concerns Burkard Alan, Marquette University
Why “Words Matter”: Inclusive Language Campaigns on College Campuses Charu Thakral, University of Illinois, Chicago
Leveraging Logic Models to Drive and Measure Community Engagement Impact Cheryl Landin, California State University San Marcos
Thought and Action: Living in solidarity to transform urban neighborhoods Erika Ramalho, Gannon University
Industry linkage: Leveraging academia for sustained external support Jorge Sosa Lopez, CETYS University
Purpose-Driven Partnerships That Transform People and Places: Cal State LA’s Anchor Mission Jose Gomez & Zuhey Espinoza, California State University, Los Angeles
Think Local, Act Global: Collaborative Initiatives to Engage Refugee Populations Julie Schumacher Cohen, The University of Scranton
More than Going Through the Motions: Service Learning Quality and Student Engagement Kaitlin Fosler, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Working Together: A Community Engaged Approach to Improve the Health of Older African Americans in Wisconsin. Kimberlee Gretebeck, Marquette University
Learning a Healthy Rhythm: An Arts-Based Intervention to Improve Heart Health Among Afro-Latino Children Kristin Haglund, Marquette University
Mapping Engagement for Informed-Decision Making and Collective Impact Kristin Norris & Jennifer Boehm, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Learning Cities: Equity Assessment Model for Urban-Metropolitan Institutions Leodis Scott, DePaul University
Teaching Service Learning Values in the Classroom: Promoting Global Citizenry Linda Loftus, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Go slow to move fast. Best practices for engaging community leaders in a transformative strategic plan. Logan Vetrovec, VCU & Anne Massey, VCU Health
Watermarks: An Atlas of Water and the City of Milwaukee Nora Barr, Marquette University
Bridging the Gap: Creating a Culture of Community between K12 and Higher Education Music Programs Mary Perkinson, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Validation of a Quantitative Measure to Assess Community Engagement in Research Nicole Ackermann, Washington University in St.Louis
Civic U© for Los Angeles local government: a model of university-designed civic education for the community Raphael Sonenshein, California State University, Los Angeles
Building Early College Programs to Promote Equity and Excellence for Students in Lawrence, Massachusetts Russ Olwell, Merrimack College
Building on Student Engagement: Taking Steps to Provide Institutional Support for Special Olympics-Young Athletes Russ Olwell, Merrimack College
Partnerships, Engagement, and Health Promotion: The Integration of Community-Based Service Learning in a Nursing Pathophysiology and Pharmacology Course Sara Adams, Indiana University Northwest
Building Capacity: The Case for Values-based Operations Sheridan Trent, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Building Authentic Partnerships: The Somali Community and Augsburg University Steve Peacock, Augsburg University
Creating and Using the IUPUI Service Learning Taxonomy to Support Course Fidelity and Faculty/Staff Development and Scholarship Thomas Hahn, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Fostering Partnerships for Health through a Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Seed Grant Program Sarah O'Connor and Zeno Franco, Medical College of Wisconsin

Speakers

Nicole Ackermann

Statistical Data Analyst, Washington University in St. Louis

Sara Adams

Assistant Professor, Indiana University Northwest

I am an empathy researcher with a specific focus on how empathy plays a role in patient care delivery. Through community engagement, I am looking to discover how engaging with communities builds interconnected empathy and promotes a social justice lens in nursing students.

Aloha Balza

Community Engagement Coordinator, Florida Atlantic University

Aloha Balza is the Coordinator of the Office of Community Engagement at Florida Atlantic University. Under the guidance of the Executive Director, she assists with the development and management of strategies and policies related to the institution’s community engaged programs... Read More →

Nora Barr

Graduate Research Assistant, Marquette University, Haggerty Museum of Art

Jennifer Boehm

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Alan Burkard

Professsor/Consulting Psychologist, Marquette University/Penfield Children's Center

Zuhey Espinoza

Deputy Director for Policy, California State Univesity, Los Angeles

Kaitlin Fosler

Graduate Student, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Jose A. Gomez

Provost; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, California State University, Los Angeles

Jose A. Gomez serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Cal State LA. Gomez helps lead Cal State LA's engaged anchor mission initiative.

Kimberlee Gretebeck

Kristin Haglund

Professor, Marquette University

Tom Hahn

Director of Research and Program Evaluation, IUPUI

Cheryl Landin

Decision Support Analyst, CSUSM

Linda Loftus

ESL Specialist, University of Nebraska at Omaha

I am passionate about my students and the community I live in. Together, we can provide fulfilling and engaging dialogue that will encourage learning in the classroom and beyond.

Jorge Sosa Lopez

Kristin Norris

Director of Assessment, IUPUI Office of Community Engagement

Sarah O'Connor

Program Manager, Medical College of Wisconsin

Russ Olwell

Assoc Dean, Education and Social Policy, Merrimack college

Steve Peacock

Director of Community Relations, Augsburg University

Mary Perkinson

Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Aleksandra J. Snowden, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Marquette University

Erika Ramalho

Director, Community and Government Relations, Gannon University

Leodis Scott

Assistant Professor, DePaul University, College of Education

Raphael Sonenshein

Executive Director, Pat Brown Institute

Todd Swanstrom

Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Po, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Charu Thakral

Associate Vice Provost for Diversity, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sheridan Trent

Graduate Assistant, University of Omaha

Logan Vetrovec

Director, Campus-Community Partnerships, VCU

I am responsible for developing and administering holistic approaches to community engagement within the health sciences arena through building coalitions among campus-community stakeholders, including management of the VCU/VCUHS Health Equity Strategic Plan. I am also responsible... Read More →

CUMU 2018 Poster Presentation Word Doc pdf

Tuesday October 23, 2018 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
French

Poster Session

1:00pm CDT

A University's Approach to Create a Thriving Undocumented Student Center

This presentation will engage participants by addressing the creative approach CSU, San Bernardino is taking to assist undocumented students and their families as well as the strategies implemented and the immigration policies impacting students. The presentation will offer recommendations for colleges and universities to welcome undocumented students and how they can engage faculty and staff in this endeavor. Our goal is to promote the creation of safe spaces and networks that better assist the undocumented, immigrant and mixed-status students.

Speakers

Maria Barragan

Undocumented Student Success Center Coordinator, California State University, San Bernardino

María Barragan is the coordinator of the Undocumented Student Success Center at California State University, San Bernardino. She is a Latinx woman and a formerly undocumented individual. María was born in Guadalajara, México and she arrived in the United States with her family... Read More →

Olivia Rosas

AVP Student Success and Educational Equity, CSU San Bernardino

Ms. Rosas has been in higher education for over 30 years and has served in various roles at Cal State University San Bernardino. She has experience in all areas of enrollment management and currently serves as the Associate Vice President of Student Success & Educational Equity and... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Walton North

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

1:00pm CDT

Data is a means AND an end: Closing the assessment feedback loop

You've collected great community-university partnership data across your entire institution! Have you thought about how to close the assessment feedback loop, ensuring that data is used to inform ongoing efforts, satisfy institutional and community outcomes, and meet stakeholder goals? This presentation will encourage participants to see their assessment and evaluation efforts through to the end - beyond data collection and into tangible, actionable change.

Speakers

Lisa Keyne

Chief Strategy Officer, Treetop Commons, LLC

Kristin Medlin

Director of Research, TreeTop Commons

I am the Director of Research at TreeTop Commons, LLC, where I oversee emerging research efforts to support, promote, and enhance the field of study related to community engagement and socially effective impact across all sectors. I am a co-designer of the Collaboratory (with Janke... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Sustaining the Work

1:30pm CDT

Coffee Break

Coffee in the French. While grabbing your afternoon caffeine check out all of our poster presentations!

Tuesday October 23, 2018 1:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

2:00pm CDT

Plenary: Harnessing the Power of Innovative and Engaged Research and Community Alliance

Welcome remarks provided by CUMU President Tom George. Presentation of the Barbara A. Holland Scholar Award by Valerie Holton and Brenda Kowalski, and presentation of the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty by Julie Plaut, followed by a panel from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Harnessing the Power of Innovative and Engaged Research and Community Alliance

Teresa L. Córdova, Ph.D. Great Cities Institute, Director
Amanda Lewis, Ph.D. Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Director
Jonathan Klein, M.D. and MPH, Department of Pediatrics, Chair.
Erica Staley, Director of Operations and Acting Director, Manufacturing Renaissance

Chicago is a great city with a booming downtown. Yet in many of its neighborhoods, young people of color struggle daily around basic needs and the impacts of joblessness, poorly funded schools, housing unaffordability, high rates of gun-related violence and inadequate access to social and health services. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is known for its community engaged scholarship with numerous faculty co-producing research that is directly relevant to addressing many of these issues. In this plenary presentation, after UIC researchers and community partners describe the research and its impacts, panelists will discuss what it takes to engage in the co-production of research including the use of traditional and innovative methodologies; creating and compiling data; and tying research conclusions to program and policy relevant applications. Concrete case studies will be used to highlight these issues including UIC work with the City of Chicago on its youth quality of life index. Much of the research described will draw up on the work of UIC’s Great Cities Institute (GCI), the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), and The School of Medine. The title of the plenary is a combination of the taglines of GCI and IRRPP: “Harnessing the Power of Research: Solutions for Today’s Urban Challenges,” and “Innovative Research. Engaged Research. Community Alliance.”

Speakers

Teresa Cordova

Director, University of Illinois at Chicago/Great Cities Institute

Tom George

Chancellor, University of Missouri-St Louis

Valerie Holton

Editor, Metropolitan University journal, National Yang-Ming University

Jonathan Klein

Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Brenda Kowalewski

Associate Provost, Weber State University

Amanda Lewis

Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy

Julie Plaut

Director of Engaged Scholarship, Brown University

Julie Plaut became the Swearer Center’s first Director of Faculty Engagement and Research in April 2018; she also serves as Assistant Dean of the College. Prior to coming to Brown, Julie was Executive Director of Minnesota Campus Compact, Director of Academic Initiatives at the... Read More →

Erica Staley

Director of Operations and Acting Director, Manufacturing Renaissance

Tuesday October 23, 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Grand

Plenary and Receptions

3:30pm CDT

Economic Inclusion: Partnerships and Collaboration in San Diego County

This presentation will describe a recently launched initiative to sustain economic growth in San Diego County through economic inclusion practices led by the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (SDREDC). The initiative partnership group includes CSU San Marcos (CSUSM) as an anchor institution of higher education. Driven by an economic and social justice imperative, SDREDC participated in a Brookings Institute Learning Lab about economic inclusion. As a result of the lab work, SDREDC identified three factors of great need and developed a collaborative process to harness the talents and resources of the region. With CSUSM as an engaged partner, the San Diego Economic Inclusion Initiative will promote economic inclusion by addressing the following bold goals: close the minority achievement gap; equip small businesses to compete; and, address the affordability crisis. SDREDC is uniquely positioned to bring together educational institutions, industry leaders, social service agencies and other entities to collaborative and collectively impact the region in ways that result in improved social and economic outcomes for all residents. The initiative is a generational endeavor that requires meaningful benchmarking, careful cultivation and long-term commitment. The presenters will share the theory, process, and current status of the initiative. We will also share lessons learned thus far and describe the intricacies of the partnership between the EDC and CSUSM in particular, as a case example of the complex web of relationships needed to sustain this kind of initiative from conceptualization to action and outcomes.

Speakers

Patricia L. Prado-Olmos

Vice President, Community Engagement, California State University San Marcos

Eduardo Velasquez

Research Manager, San Diego Regional EDC

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Walton North

Best Practices, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

3:30pm CDT

Influencing the faculty: Department chairs as engaged leaders

Many institutions strive to find creative ways to involve faculty in engaged work beyond their individual research portfolios. The approaches to support faculty in enhancing their engaged work differ depending on the leadership role involved such as the ED of a research center, a VP for public engagement, an associate dean. This presentation considers how the role of department chair can help align the engagement mission of the institution through the support of faculty development related to engaged work.

An exploratory data collection showed that faculty are often already engaging in work in multiple communities both locally and internationally, but may not have applied an actual engagement lens to that work. A process through which you can gather the data around what faculty activities are happening and helping faculty to self-define what they do as engagement may support our ongoing efforts to build better alignments with university engaged work and create sustainable community partnerships.

Speakers

Heidi Barajas

Department Chair, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Sustaining the Work

3:30pm CDT

Integrating Community Engagement, Hands-on Research, and Digital Humanities in an Undergraduate Classroom

Brooke is the winner of the 2018 Lynton Award.

Undergraduate seminars in liberal arts colleges can be spaces of great privilege: small class sizes, enthusiastic students, and adequate funding can produce environments for real hands-on research at the undergraduate level. I regularly teach such a course on the structure of Colonial Valley Zapotec, a historical form of an endangered language of Oaxaca, Mexico. In the seminar, students learn how to read and translate manuscripts written in Valley Zapotec during the Mexican colonial period—something many current speakers of Zapotec would like to learn to do as well. This created an opportunity to connect my undergraduate seminar with Zapotec speakers to exchange knowledge, experiences, and to learn together, both digitally and in person. I consider the challenges, including inequities of funding, as well as the potential successes of this kind of endeavor, such as joint publications with undergraduate and Zapotec co-authors as well as the valorization of a language that continues to be threatened through devalorization by the wider Mexican community.

Speakers

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen

Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics, Haverford College

I am associate professor and chair of linguistics at Haverford College and have been learning from speakers of Valley Zapotec for over 20 years. I'm particularly interested in grammatical description, collaborative language documentation, and revitalization projects. I'm interested in how tools from the digital humanities can be leveraged in productive... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Walton South

Best Practices

3:30pm CDT

Positive Social Change Through Intentional Student Employment

In 2014, the Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) launched as a new program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) to provide UNO students with opportunities to engage the university with the greater Omaha metropolitan community though action projects that lead to positive social change.

Each fall, 30 student employees are hired to serve as interns with metropolitan nonprofit agencies representing one of the following six issue areas: Educational Support, Economic Sufficiency, Environmental Stewardship, Health and Wellness, International Service and Social Justice. Student employees are tasked with identifying the needs of their nonprofit partner and subsequently addressing those needs through the completion of an empathically designed capstone project. 3,155 hours were contributed to non-profit partners in the Omaha Metro Area by Collaborative students during the 2016-17 academic year.

The Collaborative is grounded in our understanding of workforce development and civic engagement. To assess the learning that takes place as a result of students’ experiences within the Collaborative, ePortfolios are utilized as our main vehicle for assessment. It allows for a significant review of learning over time and allows for a connection to self-authorship and reflective learning, among other theories. The university is focused on preparing our students to be engaged citizens and community leaders in our increasingly diverse society. We believe that Omaha is our campus and work to establish sustainable and reciprocal community partnerships.

Speakers

Kristina Cammarano

Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Harnoor Singh

Director of Student Development, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Astor

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

3:30pm CDT

The Process of Systems Change in Urban Education Systems- Wellness Focus Using Community Engagement Principles

Simenz, CJ, Nelson, DA, Fuller, BA, Ruffalo, L, Kappelman, K, Dreyer, B, Brown, E, Kasten, M, Breitrick, L, Howard, J, & Italia, C. CUMU Annual Conference, “The Process of Systems Change in Urban Education Systems: Wellness Focus using Community Engagement Principles. (October 2018).
Collaborating with large, urban education and education support systems presents many challenges to successful program implementation, and ultimately, systems change. This session will detail the analysis and step-by-step grant-funded (Healthy Wisconsin Partnership Programs) process undertaken by the partnership of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee (BGCGM), Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University to affect systems change in wellness policy and practice around physical activity in both the PE and after school settings. It will highlight student and family as a central element of the Community Engagement (CEnR) process and break down a series of significant systems changes including wellness assessment, student and learning management, data usage, classroom practices, and family and student engagement that facilitated the larger policy and systems change around PA at both MPS and BGCGM. Incorporation of data currently used by MPS and design and collection of behavior change data from students will be illustrated. Participants will be asked to vision systems change at their own institutions and will perform an analysis to determine opportunities to create and implement such change. Discussion and exchange of best practices and novel applications/ideas will follow.

Speakers

Christopher Simenz

Clinical Professor, Marquette University

Dr. Simenz currently works in a collaborative, community engaged research (CEnR) team to study systems and policy change around obesity reduction/prevention, wellness, food security, homelessness and health access/navigation focused on underserved populations in Milwaukee's central... Read More →

CUMU 2018 Presentation pptx

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Parkside

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

3:30pm CDT

Want to be a Better Neighbor? Step One, Listen

Following an anchor mission, place-based institutions, such as universities and hospitals, intentionally apply their long-term, economic resources, in combination with their human and intellectual capital, to improve the communities in which they reside. Given the many different ways that universities can collaborate with their local communities, choosing a focus can be challenging. As in any good relationship, the best place to start is to listen. Come hear how the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL) utilized focus groups to gather quantitative and qualitative information on neighboring communities’ perception of UMSL, as well as their thoughts on what role they would like the university to play. This session will examine the process UMSL used to conduct focus groups and the actions it spurred, including the launching of a monthly university-community newsletter.

Speakers

Karl Guenther

Community Development Specialist, University of Missouri St. Louis

Todd Swanstrom

Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Po, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Tuesday October 23, 2018 3:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Marquette

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

4:00pm CDT

A Collective Impact, Community-Engaged Approach to Grand Challenge Initiatives

An increasing number of universities are taking on grand challenge initiatives that focus on setting ambitious and achievable goals to solve public problems. This session will describe a community-engaged approach to designing the University of Denver grand challenge initiative, called DU Grand Challenges. Our approach prioritized identifying grand challenge issues that were: multidisciplinary in nature, such that each issue would have the potential to engage every academic unit on campus in some way; broad enough to engage both campus and communities in a process to co-identify attainable goals with community partners; relevant to the community; on topics for which faculty have expertise and that connect to both scholarship and teaching. The initiative is designed to address grand challenge issues in 3-year cycles that emphasize co-creating Aspirations, Actions, and Achievement through university-community collaboration. The grand challenge issues, united by the theme “Thriving Communities,” include: improving daily living, increasing economic opportunity, and advancing deliberation and action for the public good. By creating a common agenda, applying a rigorous approach to strategic learning and shared measurement, and providing backbone support, we are developing a roadmap to scale from isolated and individual efforts to collaboration and collective impact. We will describe the planning process that led to the initiative framework and inaugural grand challenge issue areas, including, for example, the structure of work groups, constituencies engaged, and data used. We will illustrate how community engagement and collective impact principles guided the first year of programming as well as initial outcomes and lessons learned.

Speakers

Anne DePrince

Director, Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning/ University

Anne DePrince is a Professor and Chair in the Psychology Department and Director of the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL) at the University of Denver. Professor DePrince is a clinical psychologist and community-engaged teacher and researcher... Read More →

Cara DiEnno

Associate Director, Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning, University of Denver

Cara serves as the Associate Director in the University of Denver’s Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning, where she supports faculty, staff and students in their community-engaged work – collaborating with the community to advance social justice... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Parkside

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

4:00pm CDT

High Impact Engagement of STEM HSI Undergraduates

The UHD Scholars Academy employs high impact service learning projects as enhancement of the undergraduate experience focusing on 1) building relationships; 2) connecting to the urban community through their majors; and 3) developing a leadership experience through service. Each semester SA members are organized into peer groups based on STEM discipline majors led by a faculty mentor/peer mentor. This small structural group functions as a “family home base” within the STEM disciplines. Peer mentor group activities encourage understanding the college culture, STEM disciplines, and the Scholars Academy program, including group decision-making as part of selection of a discipline-related, high impact, high engagement community service project. The peer mentor group service projects are group owned, group implemented, and group evaluated for effectiveness, contribution to the community entity, and reflectively analyzed by each group member for lessons learned and best practices. Each service project is publically shared with all SA members at each fall and spring orientation session. Bi-annual surveys provide indication of service project impact on relationship to developed leadership skills and connections to academics.

Speakers

Mary Jo Parker

Executive Director, University of Houston-Downtown

Mary Jo Parker, Ed.D., a first-generation, Hispanic, is currently a faculty member in the Natural Sciences department at University of Houston-Downtown, a federally designated Hispanic-serving and Minority-serving institution. She also is the Executive Director of the Scholars Academy... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Astor

Best Practices, Collective Impact Strategies

4:00pm CDT

Partnering for K-12 Teachers STEM professional development: Lessons learned

Oklahoma City generates 41 percent of the Gross Domestic Product for the State of Oklahoma, and its economy is expanding annually at 3.5 percent, far above the national average of the 290 metropolitan areas of the United States.

However, the metro’s workforce supply can’t keep up with the pace of this economic demand. That is particularly the case for its five major economic clusters whose foundations are in STEM disciplines. Oklahoma faces a shortfall of 50 percent each year in high school graduates who are STEM-discipline ready to enter technical training or higher education institutions.

Three years ago Oklahoma State Statutes authorized the creation of STEM State of Mind Regional Education Districts. The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) led the founding of the Central Oklahoma STEM Alliance (COSTEMA), which was certified by the Governor after rigorous planning.

COSTEMA includes 16 partners in PK-16 education, with 10 school districts serving 110,000 students.

COSTEMA’s primary purpose is to provide professional development to PK-12 STEM teachers to increase their confidence and competence. COSTEMA launched its first year-long Elementary STEM Leadership cohort in 2017, with two following in 2018. UCO has worked actively to provide teacher-leaders with the knowledge and skills to be STEM leaders within their schools, thereby multiplying the impact of a single initiative. This train-the-trainer model is the first step in promoting excellence in STEM teaching and provides the entryway into increasing the quality and quantity of elementary STEM instruction in our metropolitan schools.

Speakers

Elizabeth Allan

Professor, University of Central Oklahoma

I am a Professor of Biology at the University of Central Oklahoma and the Coordinator of the Secondary Science Education Program. I serve as the Director of the Central Oklahoma Regional Science Fair and the Director of the Statewide Science Olympiad competition. I have developed... Read More →

Mark Kinders

Vice President for Public Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma

Through my work in legislative advocacy I first learned of Oklahoma's legislation to create STEM education districts. I led the formation and then was elected president. (I'm not a STEM person). Oklahoma has a robust planning process for districts; however, it's up to volunteers... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Walton North

Best Practices, Innovative Approaches to Economic Development

4:00pm CDT

Semester of Service Program: Leveraging Experiential Learning to Increase Capacity in Local Nonprofit Organizations

A joint effort between the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community and the ETHOS Center in the School of Engineering at the University of Dayton, the Semester of Service Program offers students an in-depth semester long service experience with an opportunity to strengthen the local community, build supportive relationships, and accomplish goals while discerning future paths of vocation and civic engagement. Students in the program take a semester off from traditional academic study to serve full time at a local community partner agency, and participate in a three hour mini-course each week addressing social justice issues that are encountered while serving. Open to all university students regardless of major or class level, The Semester of Service Program expands the worldview of participants and empowers them through experience and knowledge to become lifelong advocates for social change while addressing immediate needs and challenges of community organizations. During this presentation, we will explore best practices that have provided successful partnership relations between our university and the wider community, as well as highlight challenges and concerns we have identified after running the program for over 15 years in the Dayton community. We will walk through examples of projects and job descriptions of students who have participated in the program, along with the needs of community partners and how students attempt to address those needs during through the program.

Speakers

Malcolm Daniels

Castel Sweet

Community Engaged Learning and Scholarship, University of Dayton

Castel is a sociologist who explores the intricacies of community, culture, and race. Castel’s formal training in sociology enables her to comprehensively develop, support, and advocate for ethical and appropriate community-campus collaborations and community engagement at the collegiate... Read More →

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Sustaining the Work

4:00pm CDT

The Process and Results of a Metropolitan University Collaborating with Community Partners to Improve Service to Crossover Youth

Our presentation will highlight an evaluation of the Youth Impact! juvenile justice initiative in Douglas County, NE, by the Nebraska Center for Justice Research (NCJR) at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. This initiative represents the local implementation of the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM), which aims to improve outcomes for youth entangled in both the child welfare system and the juvenile justice system. CYPM was developed by The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University to serve the needs of this at-risk population, improve the coordination between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and address broader social issues such as disproportionate minority contact in these systems. UNO researchers were active collaborators from the initial implementation of Youth Impact!, and the role of NCJR will be highlighted as an essential form of infrastructure that expedites UNO’s efforts to engage with the community and make real impact via action-research initiatives. Dr. Spohn and Dr. Wright conducted a formal, two-year evaluation of the Youth Impact! initiative from 2014 to 2016. This evaluation was composed of a process evaluation, outcome evaluation, system-impact analysis, and cost-benefit analysis. Major findings from the various components of the evaluation will provided, but an emphasis will also be placed on “evaluation use”, communication, and the collaborative relationship between practitioners and researchers from development stages to the full evaluation of the initiative. Finally, the cost-benefit analysis will be a emphasized as a highly valued part of the evaluation that both promoted evaluation use and assisted practitioners in their work.

Speakers

Ryan Spohn

Director, Nebraska Center for Justice Research

I am a sociologist/criminologist who directs NCJR. The Nebraska Center for Justice Research is a multidisciplinary research center. The mission of the NCJR is to develop and sustain research capacity internal to the State of Nebraska, assist the Legislature in research, evaluation... Read More →

Emily Wright

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Marquette

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

4:00pm CDT

University Social and Economic Responsibility in Taiwan

As higher education institutions evolve in the 21st century, calls for greater relevance and impact have gained in urgency and prominence. In response, universities are seeking to enhance efforts to deepen their social and economic responsibility. However, this approach to the mission of higher education challenges some of the prevailing assumptions about expertise, community, and the systems and practices that support more traditional notions of research, teaching, and decision-making. Drawn from a Fulbright experience, this presentation examines the practice, science, and cultural implications of defining and enacting university social and economic responsibility in Taiwan and across Asia.

Speakers

Valerie Holton

Editor, Metropolitan University journal, National Yang-Ming University

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Walton South

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

4:30pm CDT

New and Prospective Member Happy Hour

Location: Club International

Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
Social Events

Plenary and Receptions

7:00am CDT

Breakfast Buffet

Breakfast in the Grand

Wednesday October 24, 2018 7:00am - 8:30am CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

7:00am CDT

Registration

Wednesday October 24, 2018 7:00am - 11:30am CDT
French

8:30am CDT

The Alliance Between the City of Los Angeles Gang Reduction/Youth Development Office (GRYD) & Cal State LA GRYD Iron

The City of Los Angeles has historically been known for its large street gang population and significant amount of gang violence. In 2007, the City of Los Angeles’ Mayor’s Office established the Gang Reduction and Youth Development Office (GRYD) which centralized all gang program funding, developed a Comprehensive Gang Strategy, and targeted 23 GRYD Zones (high gang crime areas). By 2009, both gang prevention and intervention programming was provided by community-based agencies located in each GRYD Zone.
Cal State, LA is a key GRYD partner. Researchers lead the GRYD Comprehensive Strategy evaluation, and School of Kinesiology and Nutritional Science faculty designed and deliver GRYD Iron (‘Iron’), an innovative, life-skills based physical activity approach to reducing risk factors among youth involved in GRYD’s prevention programming.
While physical activity is common to youth development programming for providing opportunities to teach life-skills, an approach that intentionally activates these opportunities increases learning. Iron’s approach intentionally reduces gang-joining risk by customizing physical activities to address risk factors, formatting sessions per best practices for promoting life skills, and training coaches to interact from a mentoring perspective.
Iron also intentionally draws coaches from Cal State LA who serve the program through service learning, a pedagogy strategy that melds course content with community service. The student coaches are predominantly local and many have roots in the neighborhoods served by GRYD. Thus, their service is strengthened by credibility derived from cultural competency, and their learning is enhanced by teaching the young people who face similar struggles to their own.

Speakers

Anne Larson

Sr. Associate Athletics Director, Cal State Los Angeles

Anne Tremblay

Director, Mayor's Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:00am CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Population Health

8:30am CDT

Rallying Interdisciplinary & Multi-sector Teams for Place-based Engagement

Many CUMU institutions hope, if not expect, to demonstrate the ability to address pressing priorities within their own cities and regions. However, challenges abound. For example, academic prestige culture and many funding mechanisms tend to prioritize scholarship that is conducted by academic research teams (rather than with community partners) with scholars across the nation and/or world (rather than colleagues at the same institution), and which select study sites based on the research question (rather than the intention to work with a particular community to address a particular community-identified priority).

Beyond academic prestige culture and funding priorities, bringing together scholars and community partners to focus on place-based issues can be challenging given challenging histories of distrust, distinct cultures that prioritize different types of processes, people, and “products”, and differing expectations for what success looks like.

Despite these challenges, we see important opportunities for building momentum towards place-based, institutional efforts to develop collaborative teams. We will share examples of place-based partnerships - one focused on establishing healthy eating and physical activities county-wide, and the other to address environmental toxicity within three neighborhoods. And, we will share lessons learned, from administrative perspectives, about efforts to connect, convene, and launch such collaborative initiatives.

In this community conversation, participants will share and discuss thorny issues and pain points, as well as promising conversations and strategies to create and leverage widely collaborative partnerships through place-based engagement.

Speakers

Lina D. Dostilio

Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement, University of Pittsburgh

Emily Janke

Director, ICEE, UNC Greensboro

institutionalizing community engagement tracking and measuring community engagement across an institution or system recognizing community engagement in promotion and tenure community-university partnerships

Terri Shelton

Vice Chancellor, UNCG

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Eerie

Community Conversation, Collective Impact Strategies

8:30am CDT

Lightning Session: (Un)Anticipated Positive Impacts: Non-traditional Internal and External Strategies to Advance and Track Social Responsibility through Community Engagement

In his April 18, 2018 Nonprofit Quarterly article entitled, “The University Elephant in the Room: Where’s Community Engagement Headed?” Steve Dubbs considers Campus Compacts 2016 national call for universities to implement Civic Action Plans, and the increasing movement towards the Anchor Institution model of higher education. Dubbs states that, “taking on the larger mission implied by such statements as challenging ‘the prevailing social and economic inequalities that threaten our democratic future’ and ‘contributing to the health and strength of our communities—economically, socially, environmentally, educationally, and politically’ is a much taller order than running programs. It means engaging new players and thinking differently about community engagement.” Throughout the past three years, Marquette University has adopted a strategic plan that has emphasized non-traditional internal and external strategies to advance social responsibility through community engagement. It has involved an intentional movement towards the complex social and political environments within which our students and community members are participating, a deliberate pursuit of new and innovative partnerships with historically marginalized communities, and an expanding of the anchor institution model to reach non-profit and corporate partners. Concurrently, we are exploring the use of non-traditional models of assessment of engagement to understand how “moves” or one-to-one meetings can advance meaningful impacts, such as campus use for commemoration of a citywide event, or increased matriculation from underrepresented populations. As the engagement terrain is relationally broad, and often unwieldy, tracking (un)anticipated positive impacts has become a critical aspect of communicating engagement narratives and advancing the work institutionally.

Speakers

Dan Bergen

Executive Director, Community Engagement, Marquette University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

8:30am CDT

Lightning Session: BTU Partnership Awards: Recognizing Exemplary Partnerships at Towson University

Through BTU: Partnerships at Work for Greater Baltimore, Towson University (TU) has been working since 2016 to create a framework to capture, support, strengthen, and align the collaborative work that is taking place between TU and its community partners. An important aspect of this work is recognizing exemplary collaborations, partnerships, and projects that impact TU and the Greater Baltimore community. This lightening session will provide participants with the opportunity to learn how Towson University developed and implemented the BTU Partnership Awards to elevate this impactful work, explore the importance of recognizing all partners involved (internal and external), and discuss growth opportunities going forward.

Speakers

Kathleen Crostic

Partnerships Manager, Towson University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

8:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Connecting Stakeholders with Community Engagement Resources at UNO

When working with the university and community there is a need to be intentional and proactive, especially in the communication of resources that are community engagement. Generating awareness of the many resources and collaboration opportunities for key stakeholders (i.e., students, faculty/staff, community organizations, and individuals) was identified as a missing component in carrying out the metropolitan mission. Learning about this opportunity to improve, we developed a tool to connect the different audiences who access our community engagement facility, our campus, and the greater Omaha community. Described as our Community Engagement Resource Link, this online tool was ultimately designed to live on the institution's website and will develop alongside the university's community engagement efforts.

Speakers

Sheridan Trent

Graduate Assistant, University of Omaha

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

8:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Making It Real: Emerging Identity and the Transformative Role of Strategic Partnerships

An institution’s emerging identity as a metropolitan university creates a vision for engagement with strategic partners. This Lightning Session spotlights the institution’s commitment to community-based engagement and dedication to serving the professional, cultural and general education needs of the citizens of its community.

This university is widely recognized for being a good neighbor, contributing to the industry, health, vibrancy and quality of life in their cities. Yet, as the university establishes its identity - internally and externally - as a metropolitan university, it is creating a renewed vision for its obligation to place and its role in the surrounding communities. The university has established an Office of Strategic Partnerships to serve as the hub for communication, coordination and evaluation of significant academic partnership activity.

Learn about how the university is defining itself as a community anchor and creating connections to sustain the work of partnering for the well-being and mutual benefit of the community. Consider the themes of assessment, sustainability and strategic thinking as they are embedded in the institution’s new identity. Specifically, as metropolitan universities initiate efforts to grow and sustain transformational partnerships, how do we get from PLANNING community partnerships to IMPLEMENTING and SUSTAINING them in the long term?

Speakers

Mary Jane Eisenhauer

Associate Director, School of Education, Purdue Northwest

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

8:30am CDT

Lightning Session: Surviving the New Age of New Media

Social media is ever changing in the new age, so how do we best navigate a field with ever changing rules? Recently, the Service Learning Academy (SLA) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha evaluated their social media accounts of Twitter and Facebook. The accounts lacked engagement, followers and post frequencies. There were three main problems with the social media accounts: no tactic for promoting events, little communication with community, and lacking an understanding of the audience of the SLA. Overall the organization learned how to effectively utilize their social media accounts for engagement, putting their best foot forward, and increasing awareness of what the Service Learning Academy can do for the community.

This session will not only focus on what the SLA did to bring their social media in to 2018, but ways to improve your organization's social media and conduct your own "2018 overhaul." You will be invited to listen on various was to make your messages clear in an unclear sphere.

Speakers

Amanda Anderson

Graduate Assistant, UNO Service Learning Academy

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

8:30am CDT

Building Bridges to the Community: Collective Impact Models to Transform Communities and Empowering Residents

At Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N), as part of the efforts to fulfill institutional strategic engagement priorities, there are numerous internal and external projects/initiatives underway that are utilizing the basic tenets of the collective impact model to create positive change in several sectors of the Greater Newark community. This workshop will address three highly impactful models that are engaging multiple internal and external stakeholders in this important work.
The Office of University-Community Partnerships (OUCP) was created to broker and promote reciprocal and mutually beneficial partnerships between the university and the community. It has successfully forged and launched an array of collective impact initiatives in the West Ward. The West Ward Community Coalition (WWCC), which now convenes monthly over 400 residents, stakeholders, and elected officials, supported by researchers and other professional experts to create open dialogue and harness stakeholder capacity to develop action plans that address challenges and opportunities in Newark’s West Ward.

The Start Healthy Stay Healthy (SHSH) Early Childhood Nutrition Program which aims to educate caregivers and parents of children ages 0-3 on healthy nutrition
The African American Brain Health Initiative (AABHI) which focuses on the importance of brain health in Senior Citizens ages 55+
The Small Business Development-New Jersey (NJSBDC) has partnered with several internal and external partners to create the Entrepreneurial Empowerment Initiative (EEI). This highly innovative collective impact model is intended to integrate an entrepreneurial component within revitalization of a catchment area in the West Ward. To provide targeted technical assistance and meet the training needs of the existing small businesses in order to improve the economic well- being of the neighborhood, NJSBDC conducted a needs assessment.

Attendees will learn key inputs requisite to implementing these successful models along with specific impacts and outcomes.

Speakers

Deborah Flamengo

Special Project Coordinator, Rutgers University-Newark

Diane Hill

Assistant Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark

Brenda B. Hopper

Chief Executive Officer/State Director, New Jersey Small Business Development Centers - HQ @ Rutgers Business School, Ne

Habeebah Yasin

Project Manager of West Ward Initiative, Rutgers University - Newark / Office of University-Community Partnerships

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Astor

Panel Presentation, Collective Impact Strategies

8:30am CDT

Building Together: Inclusive Neighborhood Development and Real Estate Investment

The borders between urban universities and their surrounding neighborhoods are thin, and sometimes nonexistent. These institutions are increasingly considering the role their physical footprint plays in community well-being. This panel will provide examples of three universities engaging in neighborhood development and real estate investment as part of their anchor mission to build thriving communities.

Drexel University has invested in its community through the establishment of an employee home purchase assistance program as a mechanism for stabilizing single-family homeownership in its nearby neighborhoods--especially those threatened by displacement. This program is paired with Drexel’s Hire Local economic inclusion strategy to drive economic growth through family-sustaining wages, homeownership, and generational wealth building for local employees.

Cleveland State University has partnered with the local school district to build a new, state of the art K-8 school on the CSU campus. As the first K-8 school constructed in downtown Cleveland in decades, the school is bringing life to a once depressed area. In this mutually beneficial partnership, the school functions as a learning lab for the College of Education while maintaining a close working relationship with the university and the property leased at favorable terms to the school district.

Virginia Commonwealth University employs a full-time Neighborhood Outreach director to work closely with surrounding neighborhoods to share resources and pursue common goals. As VCU’s physical footprint has continued to expand, the Neighborhood Outreach Director has served a vital role in gathering community feedback on VCU’s Master Plan, and at times directly inform facility design.

Speakers

Jennifer Britton

Director, Communications & Special Projects, Office of University & Community Partnerships

Jennifer Early

Director Community-Engaged Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tito Luna

Neighborhood Outreach Director, Virginia Commonwealth University

I have been at VCU's Division of Community Engagement since 2013. My work at VCU centers around including our neighbors in major processes like our master plan and day-to-day activities to improve quality of life. I work closely with six surrounding neighborhood associations and have... Read More →

Julian Rogers

Director of Community Partnerships, Cleveland State University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Walton South

Panel Presentation, The Anchor Mission

8:30am CDT

Increasing Collective Efficacy Through Place-Based Interventions: A Community Prosecution Model in Partnership with Neighborhood Anchor Institutions, Non-Profit Organizations, and Residents

What do a university, motorcycle company, American Indian tribe, brewery, and hospital system all have in common? They are anchor institutions who formed a pioneering collaboration known as Near West Side Partners with the goal of revitalizing Milwaukee’s Near West Side through focusing on four priorities: safety, housing, commercial corridor development, neighborhood identity and branding. NWSP researched best practices that would allow for the promotion of neighborhood assets while reducing crime and established a Community Prosecution Unit (CPU) that deploys focused, place-based interventions with real-time data to proactively address crime and nuisance activities in a defined target area. As a result, NWSP has experienced double-digit decreases in crime along with unprecedented increases in economic development, resident engagement, student and employee participation.

The CPU is comprised of an assistant district attorney, community outreach assistant, and crime analyst who work with law enforcement, other government agencies, nonprofits, businesses and residents with the goal of improving the quality of life for every person that lives, works and plays within the target area. What’s unique about the Near West Side CPU? It’s fully-funded, has a smaller target area, and has the advantage of the power of the partnership to support economic development to ensure sustainable change. For example, a problem tobacco shop experienced 300+ calls for service/year until the anchors worked to change state law which assisted the CPU in closing it down. Three years later, this parcel is under the ownership of Penfield Children’s Center who will redevelop it for productive use.

Speakers

Rana Altenburg

Vice President for Public Affairs, Marquette University

Biography: Rana H. Altenburg is vice president for public affairs at Marquette University. She oversees the university’s governmental initiatives at the federal, state, county, city, and tribal levels; community relations; university special events; and special projects of strategic... Read More →

Branden DuPont

Medical College of Wisconsin

Bobby McQuay

Medical College of Wisconsin

Catelin Ringersma

Attorney, Marquette Law School

Keith Stanley

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am CDT
Walton North

Panel Presentation, The Anchor Mission

8:30am CDT

Loyola University Chicago: LaSalle Street Church & Cabrini Green

Community Experience organized by Loyola University Chicago
Registration is mandatory. Register here!

Community engagement and economic redevelopment between LaSalle Street Church and gentrified Cabrini Green neighborhood.

This is a two part opportunity for participants to experience an organizations economic development plan and a gentrification tour. First, participants will learn how LaSalle Street Church a long standing neighborhood religious institution formed the Near North Unity Program which seeks to promote and strengthen community cohesion in Chicago’s Near North neighborhood and connect residents, businesses, and organizations into a resilient community by building upon local strengths through planning, organizing, and human development. Second, participants will have a guided tour of the former Cabrini Green public housing community, which is in the midst of Chicago Housing Authorities neighborhood redevelopment plan. A developing partnership is in the works between Loyola University and LaSalle Street Church.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 8:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Community Experiences

Community Experiences

9:00am CDT

Urban Partnerships to Address Health Literacy in Low-Income and Homeless Adults

Low health literacy is a public health problem that disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority and lower socioeconomic groups. This presentation describes a community-academic partnership aimed at addressing low health literacy, a critical determinant of health inequity. The objective of this project is to increase health knowledge and health-related self-efficacy among low-income and homeless adults in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To achieve this objective, Repairers of the Breach, a nonprofit day shelter for the homeless, and Bread of Healing, a nonprofit neighborhood-based clinic serving low income individuals, partnered with researchers at Marquette University to implement and evaluate an evidence-based health literacy curriculum program at each community clinic site. The curriculum was delivered in seven one-hour sessions over seven weeks and addressed topics such as how to describe symptoms to a doctor, reading and understanding medication instructions, understanding when to use non-emergent health care services versus using the emergency room, understanding medical forms, and identifying healthy lifestyle choices. This project provides an example of a successful collaboration between community-based organizations serving vulnerable populations and an academic institution. We discuss the experiences and challenges of working across urban clinics serving low-income or homeless adults to provide health-related educational programming. We will also discuss ways that attendees can develop similar partnerships and implement similar programming in their communities. Additionally, we will explore opportunities for expanding the project partnerships to include other organizations that serve vulnerable populations such as community-based incarceration centers.

Speakers

Abiola Keller

Director of Clinical Research, Marquette University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 9:00am - 9:30am CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Population Health

9:30am CDT

Coffee Break

Coffee in the French.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:00am CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

10:00am CDT

Community Engagement vs. Racial Equity: Can Community Engagement Work be Racially Equitable?

Community engagement professionals have long understood the importance of diversity and equity work both in higher education and in communities. Yet, when addressing issues of race, the community engagement literature often refers to the demographics of communities or students, and also refers to initiatives within higher education institutions with an unclear connection to community engagement work itself. Higher education institutions, as seen through the increase in Carnegie classified community engaged institutions across the U.S., are working towards institutionalizing engagement and changing the ways universities and communities work together to address pressing social issues. Just as we work with communities in mutually beneficial and respectful ways, we also need to ensure we are working within higher education institutions with one another in similar ways. For example, how do changes to policies around promotion and tenure being made in the name of engagement impacting engaged faculty of color as they move through the tenure process? Are the policies working towards more racially inclusive practices, or are they exclusionary? As we continue to move towards institutional transformation, it is important that we pause and take note of how our work impacts those who have been historically (and are still currently!) excluded from equitable educational outcomes within higher education. Thus, the pressing question at the center of this session is: how is racial equity addressed in community engagement initiatives within higher education institutions?

Speakers

Arien Telles

PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 10:30am CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

10:00am CDT

Alignment through Community: The Case of a Metropolitan University and the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) is a public, metropolitan university that has developed a highly collaborative relationship with the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (HCC). This partnership unites several university divisions and the HCC in support of a set of shared goals, articulated in UCO’s “Vision 2020” strategic planning document and in the HCC’s seven community development priorities, that include business development, cultural and environmental stewardship, workforce development, and education. To facilitate these partnerships, UCO’s Division of Academic Affairs has reorganized its administrative structure to create an Office of Global and Cultural Competencies, which includes a Director of Cultural Outreach and Diversity Strategies, who serves as on-site liaison to the HCC; the Division of Academic Affairs is also represented on the HCC Board of Directors. These shared efforts provide a means for securing extramural funding, internships, and new leadership programs that will sustain the partnership and will impact a growing demographic and economic segment of Oklahoma City. Within the university, this partnership complements the diversity and inclusion initiatives of UCO’s Division of Student Affairs and promotes the legislative and economic initiatives led by UCO’s Division of Public Affairs. This presentation will address the often unrecognized role of a university’s academic mission in anchoring community partnerships; a panel discussion will then consider best practices in fulfilling an institutional commitment to serve diverse, metropolitan populations.

Speakers

John Barthell

Provost & VP of Academic Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma

John F. Barthell is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber Board.

David Castillo

President/CEO, Greater OKC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

David Macey

Assistant VP for Academic Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma

Liliana Renteria Mendoza

Director-OKC Cultural Outreach & Diversity Strategies, University of Central Oklahoma

Charlotte Simmons

Associate VP for Academic Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma

Dr. Charlotte Simmons is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 10:30am CDT
Walton South

Panel Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:00am CDT

Thinking from Somewhere: Preparing University Students for Authentic (Hyper)local Partnership

The full realization of urban universities’ roles as anchor institutions and partners in local/regional collective impact efforts requires the meaningful engagement, not only of institutional structures, but also of the teaching and learning at the core of our academic missions. And yet, respectful academic engagement with community partners – as opposed to objectifying study of one or more reified “communities” – requires thoughtful preparation. As the popularity of (and demand for) engaged student research grows, particularly at research-high institutions, how are we working to awaken our students to questions of identity, power, privilege, and colonization that might otherwise sabotage their best-intended efforts to partner with community organizations and residents? What structures are we implementing (or capitalizing upon) to help them develop the dispositions and competencies they need to do meaningful, impactful, academic work that is authentically supportive of local priorities? Our conversation will foreground this aspect of our work with a very brief case study of the preparatory elements of UChicago’s “Chicago Studies” initiative, followed by a liberating-structures-based sharing and discussion of promising practices, incisive informants, and wicked questions, with the goal of building a more intentional community of practice around this vital (but often under-examined) dimension of our work as engaged intellectuals.

Speakers

Christopher Skrable

Office of Civic Engagement, University of Chicago

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Eerie

Community Conversation, The Anchor Mission

10:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Community Health through Employment Pathways

At the University of Chicago Medicine, we believe that a healthy and safe community is a strong community. Our commitment to healthier, safer families comes to life through a variety of programs and partnerships that are guided by the health priorities identified by a Community Health Needs Assessment, conducted every three years. The primary purpose of these programs is to further improve the health of residents on the South Side. These programs highlight many of the University of Chicago Medicine's partnerships with community organizations and showcase the variety of programs offered in the community. One such program includes a Medical Assistant apprenticeship program, launched in partnership with World Business Chicago and other medical institutions across the City. This initiative provides an opportunity for current employees to invest, with minimal cost, in their development and gain a certificate while working at their home institution.

Speakers

Elizabeth Rahill

Sr Consultant Talent Strategy, University of Chicago Medicine

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Community-based Educational Initiatives: Adult Citizenship Classes for Students with Refugee Backgrounds

The SUNY Buffalo State Community Academic Center (CAC) is nestled within the west side neighborhood of Buffalo, which has hosted Buffalo’s newcomers for decades. Recently, our neighborhood has become a hub for refugee resettlement. The CAC provides educational programs that have grown out of and alongside the changing demographics of our neighbors. Currently citizenship education is a focus of our center as we address the inequalities experiences by some of the newest Buffalonians.

In light of the global rise in forced displacement, scholars increasingly investigate the educational experiences of newcomers who are building their lives within a new society and transnational context. Yet, few studies investigate the educational trajectories of adults specifically with refugee backgrounds in the United States.

This paper examines the educational experiences of adults with refugee backgrounds enrolled in citizenship preparation classes at the SUNY Buffalo State Community Academic Center (CAC). My research is guided by the following question: How do adults with refugee backgrounds narrate and reflect upon their motivations, perceptions, and barriers to pursuing citizenship education within the United States.

Initial findings from this study include: 1) participants drew upon cultural networks to access citizenship resources and other needed services 2) participants perceived that gaining citizenship would increase opportunities for themselves and families 3) exclusions and perceived exclusions experienced contributed to participants’ motivation to pursue citizenship. These findings significantly add to the literature that sparsely addresses the experiences of former refugees navigating their new lives in the United States as they relate to citizenship.

Speakers

Maureen McCarthy

Program Director, Community Academic Center, SUNY at Buffalo State College

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Field Schools and Neighborhood Engagement as a Strategy to Build Community Partnerships

Georgia State University has had a plethora of invisible research activities educating the local citizenry and addressing local societal challenges that inner city residents face in Atlanta. My presentation will focus on how universities can utilize field schools to train students in research methods as well as interview protocols and valuable informational about minority and hidden populations in urban environments.

Recently over the last five years, Georgia State University has instituted through their College of Arts and Sciences several field schools (and other student-led initiatives) aimed at partnering with local communities. In these field schools, professors and a team of graduate and undergraduate students use “on the ground” research methods to address Atlanta’s societal challenges. Many of these innovative partnerships help to address longstanding inequities and social problems in the city of Atlanta by educating the citizenry, as well as local government agencies and officials.

The work of field schools has been important to the success of GSU as an anchor institution rebuilding downtown’s neighborhoods. For example, the Sociology Department has partnered with local community agencies in 1) examining the homeless youth population in Atlanta, 2) surveying the health outcomes of Atlanta’s inner-city residents residing on the new urban Beltline, and 3) documenting the transitional experiences of refugees and immigrants in city of Atlanta. The Sociology Department has developed relationships with local nonprofits, government agencies, and local governments to help share the experiences of local residents.

Speakers

George R. Greenidge, Jr.

Innovation Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia State University

George R. Greenidge, Jr. has served in a number of capacities throughout his career in the fields of non-profit, government, philanthropy, and education. Most recently, he was President of the Boston Empowerment Zone, a federally funded HUD initiative aimed at economic investment... Read More →

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:00am CDT

Lightning Session: Power of the Partnership: Building Civic Capacity in Milwaukee’s Near West Side

Anchor institutions have a vested interest in their neighborhoods, and through their social, intellectual and financial capital, have the capacity to impact some of the most pressing problems facing cities. Milwaukee’s Near West Side is home to five anchor institutions: Marquette University, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Potawatomi Business Development Corporation, MillerCoors and Harley-Davidson. In 2015, these institutions banded together to form an anchor partnership, Near West Side Partners (NWSP). Our case study details NWSP’s efforts to secure a state legislative victory that helped solve a persistent public safety problem in the community. Our paper discusses the strategies NWSP used to build bipartisan support for the bill and their parallel efforts to educate and then mobilize residents to take advantage of the new law. While anchor partners worked with community members and city officials to draft a bill, they also marshalled their resources to bring concerted media attention to the issue, attended every legislative hearing, and helped broker legislative changes that allayed concerns from the bill’s original opponents. In the end, the bill passed with unanimous support—despite strong opposition from the tobacco industry. We argue that NWSP’s efforts increased the community’s civic capacity to address other ongoing challenges related to public safety, housing, and economic development. We discuss how these specific efforts fit within NWSP’s broader PARC (Promoting Assets, Reducing Crime) Initiative, and the successes that followed this initial policy win. We also bring attention to the limits of the partnership’s political capital.

Speakers

Amber Wichowsky

Associate Professor, Marquette University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, The Anchor Mission

10:00am CDT

Lightning Session: We All Need Reflection: Reflecting with Community Partners

While reflection and building skills to do reflection are a key element of community-based learning classes, we often don't think about how helpful it can be to ourselves and our community partners. I will share how LUC has taken steps to reflect alongside and community partners and working on building reflection skills together.

Speakers

Susan Haarman

Associate Director, Center for Engaged Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Parkside

Lightning Presentation, Sustaining the Work

10:00am CDT

Collective Impact Strategies: Identifying Best Practices

Collective impact efforts are adaptable to a wide variety of social and community issues and have been increasingly recognized as an effective strategy for tackling complex problems where isolated impact has failed. Evidence of the utility of this approach, as well as best practices regarding the necessary conditions for success, has increased substantially over the past few years. A recent special issue of the Metropolitan Universities Journal focused on various collective impact initiatives, strategies, and challenges. This panel is constituted of authors from that special issue and will explore topics related to the implementation of collective impact initiatives, including how collective impact has been used to address wicked problems, the role of the university, the use of data, where students may fit into collective impact efforts, and how collective impact efforts evolve over time. The goal of the panel is to provide attendees with diverse perspectives (e.g., community, university) and insight regarding the use of collective impact under a variety of conditions.

Panel Chair/Panel Moderator:
Joseph A. Allen, Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, josephallen@unomaha.edu

Presenter Information:
Sheridan B. Trent, Doctoral Student, University of Nebraska at Omaha, strent@unomaha.edu
Patricia Tooker, Dean of Nursing, Wagner University, ptooker@wagner.edu
Bruce Jones, Professor, University of Houston, bajones4@central.uh.edu
Ellen Szarleta, Professor, Indiana University Northwest, eszarlet@iun.edu

Speakers

Joseph Allen

Associate Professor, I/O Psychology Director, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Bruce Jones

University of Houston

Ellen Szarleta

Director, CURE, IU Northwest

Patricia Tooker

Dean, Wagner College

Sheridan Trent

Graduate Assistant, University of Omaha

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Walton North

Panel Presentation, Collective Impact Strategies

10:30am CDT

Institutional Processes To Determine Community Engagement Impact: A Collective Case Study

This qualitative, collective case study was designed to examine the processes by which urban, metropolitan institutions determine the impact their community engagement has within the local community. The study addresses the lack of research on community engagement at the institutional level, the processes that track and coordinate engagement, as well as the perspectives of community partners in this work, centering the institution as the unit of analysis. The study employs grounded theory to align with the exploratory nature of the research, using data from three institutional cases to inform an area of research with limited models and theories. Selection criteria for institutions included CUMU membership and the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, among other characteristics. Multiple data sources were included in each case, and a two-month pilot phase preceded the full study to inform the design and implementation.

Findings across cases suggest institutional processes vary, and that capacity to determine impact at the local level is limited. Respondents across cases suggested the ability to identify, track, and report community engagement activities institution-wide was imperfect, further suggesting that greater institutionalization is required to realize assessment capacity.

Community representation and voice in institutional assessment processes were limited or not included. Findings suggest that as institutional capacity for engagement and its assessment builds (i.e. institutionalization), systematic solicitation of community perceptions of impact may serve as a proxy for realized community outcomes. Findings further indicate that greater attention to community engagement assessment can support institutional relevance, productivity, and mission attainment.

Speakers

Amanda Bowers

Adjunct Faculty, University of Louisville

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Walton South

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

10:30am CDT

The Practice of Joining: Accompaniment, Engagement, and Struggle for Equity

Drawing on cultural studies and leadership theory, this presentation advances the notion of “joining” as an epistemology and a methodology in community and campus-based equity work. To join with each other on campus and in the community proposes a transformational intervention in diversity and "service" spaces. We use this session to draw out the practice of joining and to suggest ways that higher education can transform itself as it invites diversity, struggles to manifest inclusion, seeks democratic partnerships in communities, and builds capacity to confront to the urgent challenges and opportunities facing humanity at our current conjuncture.

 To join, in this formulation, is to invite and engage in community with others with a reflexive openness to the radical potential of connection prior to the work of collaboration. Leadership theory suggests that joining helps us turn our gaze inward, looking at ourselves in relationship to the community. It requires an openness to change. Accordingly, a cultural approach to EDI seeks to transform organizations and institutions by examining how we make sense of our work - informing our habits and assumptions - to better navigate a hierarchical, globalized world. This change holds vital importance when joining with those from underrepresented perspectives, distressed communities, subaltern groups and others who have not set the existing terms of “partnership.”

The practice of joining engages with an honest struggle for equity, rather than proposing solutions that cannot help but serve as window dressing. We hope to inspire ways of working that are just, equitable, democratic, and transformational.

Speakers

John Loggins

Director of Community Engaged Learning, University of San Diego

Esteban del Rio

Associate Provost/CDO & Associate Professor, Communication Studies, University of San Diego

My research interests include the study of unity and difference, cultural production and reception, Latina/o media, consumer culture, and social change. I am also interested in exploring how a communication and cultural approach to difference can intervene in discourses and practices... Read More →

Wednesday October 24, 2018 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

11:00am CDT

Coffee Break

Coffee in the French

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

11:30am CDT

ABCD: An Approach to University Community Engagement

What is ABCD: Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) promotes the development of strong and sustainable communities based on a simple, but powerful concept: it is more effective to focus on the resources and assets of a community's individuals and organizations than solely on its problems and deficiencies. Following the publication of John McKnight and John Kretzmann’s bestselling community development book, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets, the ABCD Institute was created in the early 1990’s. The Institute functions to assist communities in identifying, nurturing and mobilizing existing community strengths; engaging and building on the skills of local residents; using the power of local associations; and engaging the support of local institutions which have a stake in the community's success. This process effectively leads to stronger, self-reliant and sustainable communities.

ABCD and University Community Engagement: In 2017 the ABCD Institute moved to DePaul University’s Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning & Community Service Studies. The Steans Center is applying ABCD principles in its work within areas of academic service learning, community service studies and community partnerships. Using an ABCD approach changes the lens through which communities are viewed by university students, staff and faculty and changes the focus from "we are here to help/fix you" to "we are here to, listen, learn and work beside you."

Speakers

Kim Hopes

Assistant Director of ABCD Partnerships, ABCD Institute Steans Center DePaul University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Walton South

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

11:30am CDT

University Of Illinois: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion through Dialogue Education

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation (U.S. News and World Report, 2013). As articulated in UIC’s diversity strategic plan, UIC aims to harness the unique opportunities afforded it by the representational diversity of its students, faculty, and staff, to become a national leader in diversity-related scholarship. In line with this value, UIC Dialogue Initiative was created, which includes courses, workshops, and trainings in order to allow students to benefit from the informal and interactional diversity within their learning environments and understand these benefits through the study of educational, social psychological, diversity, and social justice literatures. Informal/interactional diversity, based on principles of social psychology, requires students to learn about each other, exchange worldviews, and share experiences that expand their multicultural cognitive frameworks (Gurin, 1999). Interactions with diverse peers along these lines have been empirically linked to students’ capacity to think pluralistically and commit to lifelong civic engagement (Hurtado, 2005). Pedagogical elements and principles of an extensively researched educational practice called Intergroup Dialogue (IGD; Gurin, 1999; Sorensen, Nagda, Gurin, & Maxwell, 2009) were used to advance UIC’s informal/interactional diversity given that IGD engages students in active, experiential pedagogy and offers intentional interaction in a classroom setting. This session will provide a brief overview of the dialogue education approach, research outcomes, and discuss how this approach is used to advance UIC’s informal/interactional diversity with students, and the innovative ways it has expanded these opportunities to include offerings for staff and faculty.

Speakers

Charu Thakral

Associate Vice Provost for Diversity, University of Illinois at Chicago

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

11:30am CDT

Who blinked over ink?: A 21st Century Western Standoff

On the morning of November 22, 2017 ink!, a Colorado coffee chain, displayed a sign in Five Points one of Denver's historically black neighborhoods. The sign read, "Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014." Ru Johnson a community organizer tweeted a photograph of the sign. An outpouring of community outrage quickly ensued.

ink! responded at 4:45 p.m. by issuing a tweet, "We sincerely apologize for our street sign. Our (bad) joke was never meant to offend our vibrant and diverse community." It followed with a Facebook post at 5:00 p.m., "Hmmm. We clearly drank too much of our own product and lost sight of what makes our community great. We sincerely apologize for our street sign. Our (bad) joke was never meant to offend our vibrant and diverse community. We should know better. We hope you will forgive us.”

ink's! apology felt like a joke with a jab, to a community that will never find gentrification funny. Whether examining the "repatriation" of up to 2 million Mexican Americans taken from their homes or workplace and forcibly deported across the border to Mexico during the 1930s and 1940s or the 6 million African Americans who made the mass exodus from the indentured servitude of the share cropping south to the institutional racism of the industrialized north; members of the black and brown communities have historically bared the brunt of dislocation and forced relocation.

ink's! celebration of gentrification shifted its position from community partner to community colonizer overnight. Let's examine this case together.

Speakers

Shannon Campbell

Director of Graduate Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver

I am a champion for promoting student academic success in graduate school. As such, I believe, all students deserve top quality student-centered services including those from underserved and marginalized populations. Furthermore, it is my belief that the best leaders in higher education... Read More →

Laura Castaneda

Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism, University of Southern California

Latinx issues, gender issues, higher ed issues.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Walton North

Best Practices, Segregation and Gentrification

11:30am CDT

Healthy Neighborhoods in Partnership with Local Colleges

Health planning is an organized and systematic process in which problems are identified, priorities selected, and objectives set for the development of community health programs on the basis of a Community Health Assessment (CHA) and health surveillance data. Health planning occurs at the global, national, regional, state, county and local levels. Ideally health planning is coordinated and consistent among each of these levels. Wagner College in fulfilling its mission to offer a comprehensive educational program that is anchored in experiential and co-curricular learning and service to society has partnered with the Staten Island Performing Provider System (SI PPS) an alliance of clinical and social service providers, focused on improving the quality of care and overall health for the underserved and uninsured populations on Staten Island. Our joint goal is to enhance the connectivity between the campus and the community to drive positive outcomes. This session discusses The Healthy Neighborhood Model which utilizes a cross sector approach to create change and improve health status through the organization of community teams consisting of a local college and a community of need. For Phase I of this project, nursing students in the Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing and Bonner leaders from the Center for Leadership and Engagement along with available tools provided by the PPS were able to collect, survey, process and implement specific neighborhood data to support the Education/Community Model: Wagner College and the North Shore region. Participants will have the opportunity to walk through the findings and preview Phase II.

Speakers

Kevin Bott

Dean for Civic Engagemement, Wagner College

Celina Ramsey

Director of Health Literacy, Diversity and Outreach, Staten Island Performing Provider Service

Patricia Tooker

Dean, Wagner College

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Eerie

Mini Workshop, Population Health

11:30am CDT

Place- and Process-Based Approaches to Population Health in Dearborn, Detroit and Ypsilanti

This presentation will feature faculty, students and practitioners involved in efforts to reduce sources of violence and trauma using process- and place-based approaches: policing training in Dearborn emphasizing de-escalation and empathy; community outreach through the Sheriff’s Office of Washtenaw County to address sources of violence in Ypsilanti neighborhoods; peer-based interventions to reduce gun violence in Detroit; and an investigation of the relationship between trauma, health and green spaces in Detroit.

The presentation will feature evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, from the four projects outlined above. However, the interaction will be focused on addressing key overarching questions related to the feasibility, effectiveness, and sustainability of these kinds of approaches. How do we measure “community impact” of programs that are focused on improving relationships between populations and powerful institutions such as schools and law enforcement? How does process equity figure in the discussion of health equity? How financially sustainable are programs which have expansive but sometimes nebulous outcome goals? How do practitioners communicate the value of such programs in terms that institutions understand?

Speakers

Paul Draus

Professor, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

I am interested in place-based processes that have transformative potential for individuals and communities at the local level, from restorative justice to environmental restoration. My research and engagement interests take me from prisons to parks and points in between.

Omitra C. Gates

Student, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Recent Behavioral Sciences graduate from the University of Michigan. My concentrations in research include: cultural anthropology, urban sociology, and mental health.

Juliette Roddy

Professor (Economics), University of Michigan Dearborn

I am an economist at the University of Michigan Dearborn. I study substance use and misuse, re-entry, recovery and restorative practices.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Parkside

Panel Presentation, Population Health

12:00pm CDT

Engendering Dignity in Philosophy: A partnership between Marquette University and the Milwaukee Women’s Correctional Center

Engendering Dignity in Philosophy (EDIP) is a Marquette University program co-founded by two graduate students and two faculty members from the Philosophy department to build curricular partnerships between the university and other community organizations. Through this program we teach an undergraduate philosophy course that enrolls half of the students from Marquette and half of the students from The Milwaukee Women’s Correctional Center (MWCC), a minimum-security women’s prison. This session shares the best practices we have developed in building, sustaining, and growing this innovative partnership including how to:

➢ Utilize different spaces to engage learning. Our course rotates locations, taking MU students to the prison one week and bringing MWCC students to Marquette the following week.

➢ Identify and use expertise strategically. The course capitalizes on the diversity of expertise among participants in virtue of their lived experience and/or educational background.

➢ Engage students in forms of work beyond conventional academic formats. Our program partners with the digital scholarship lab and the campus museum of art for MU/MWCC groups to produce podcasts, short documentaries, artistic showcases, slam poetry sessions, and websites.

➢ Build and sustain relationships between the partnering institutions and among the course participants. We are developing a “continuity of care” dimension that invites former MWCC students to serve as tutors for the course or keynote speakers for the final symposium.

➢ Mentor and train new leaders so that the program becomes integrated into the culture of our institutions.
These best practices can inform a wide range of community-based partnerships.

Speakers

Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio

Lecturer, Marquette University

Theresa Tobin

Director of Graduate Studies, Marquette University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT
Walton North

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

12:00pm CDT

Maryland Equity and Inclusion Leadership Program: Creating Partnerships for Positive Change

This presentation will provide insight into an organic educational cohort model that demonstrates best practices in promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in the workplace. The Maryland Equity and Inclusion Leadership Program (MEILP) is a joint venture between the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights and the University of Baltimore Schaefer Center for Public Policy that applies adult educational methodology and experiential learning pedagogy that provides a framework for developing community partnerships with higher education. MEILP is a nine-month course for working adults from the public, private and non-profit sectors who set out to identify challenges involving diversity and/or equity in their particular workplace and develop and implement a project or initiative plan. The 2017 pilot program selected 38 participants from a pool of 75 applications. Participants were from such organizations as T-Rowe Price, Baltimore Police, Sierra Club, City of College Park and Maryland Department of Health. In monthly day-long sessions participants learned from guest speakers about the historical underpinnings of racial and social inequities, unconscious bias, cultural capital, gender identity, and ageism noting impacts on individuals, workplaces, and communities. Through active learning techniques, team building exercises, systems thinking, and networking, students engaged with facilitators to develop strategies for implementing practical solutions within their organizations to foster change in the 21st-century workplace. Students also engaged in one-on-one meetings with facilitators and completed monthly practicum assignments. By the end of the program, participants understood their organization’s particular diversity and inclusion related challenges and implemented a plan to address these issues.

Speakers

Darien Ripple

Visiting Professor, Grand Valley State University

Wednesday October 24, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT
Michigan

Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion

12:00pm CDT

Signature Service Days: Maximizing Social Impact In Our Community

At the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), community involvement is a major component of the school’s mission. Since 2003, Signature Service Days have provided UNO students, staff, and faculty a chance to engage in service projects with the community while serving a need at local nonprofit organizations.

Today, the UNO Office of Civic and Social Responsibility hosts fifteen service days each academic year, which are each themed to represent six issue areas: Educational Support, Economic Sufficiency, Environmental Stewardship, Health and Wellness, International Service and Social Justice. On each service day, trained student leaders facilitate pre- and post-reflection discussions and guide volunteers through their service project. Intentionally structured to promote long-term, consistent volunteerism, Signature Service Days require community partners to engage with volunteers by describing the services and programs offered by their agencies.

Signature Service Days for the 2017-2018 academic year featured 1,790 students, staff, and community members (total), with 1,447 unique participants completing 7,747 hours of service in support of 100 nonprofit organizations. During the 2017-2018 academic year, volunteers provided an economic impact of $154,295.20 to the Omaha Metropolitan area.

Speakers

Kristina Cammarano

Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Harnoor Singh

Director of Student Development, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Wednesday October 24, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT
Walton South

Best Practices, The Anchor Mission

12:30pm CDT

Lunch Buffet

Lunch in the Grand.

Wednesday October 24, 2018 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT
Social Events

Meals & Breaks

1:00pm CDT

Plenary: Aligning for Impact: Deepening Philanthropic Engagement in University-Community Partnerships

As higher education institutions expand their university-community partnerships for deeper impact, external support is necessary for the sustainability of these efforts. Support from the philanthropic community is critical, however, making connections and accessing resources from these institutions is oftentimes challenging. Join us as we speak with leaders from private, community and corporate foundations to learn why they have chosen to invest in university-community partnerships and hear their thoughts on how universities can work more effectively with community partners. These leaders will discuss the lessons they have learned, the challenges and success of this work, and how they see these partnerships aligning with their overall philanthropic missions.

Moderators

Nyeema Watson

Associate Chancellor for Civic Engagement, Rutgers University—Camden

Speakers

Ines Hernandez

Senior Vice President, Citi

As the South Florida Market Manager for Citi Community Development, Ines Hernandez develops and catalyzes innovative initiatives that address the prosperity gap in South Florida. During her 15-year career in community development, Ines has honed cross-sector relationships and skills... Read More →

Bethany Miller

Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation

Bethany Miller is a program officer for The Kresge Foundation’s Education Program. Her responsibilities include inviting and reviewing funding proposals, monitoring existing grants and supporting the Education Program’s learning and evaluation work. She joined the foundation in... Read More →

Charles Rutheiser

Senior Associate, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Carolyn Saxton

President, Legacy Foundation

Carolyn Saxton is president and CEO of Legacy Foundation, Lake County, Indiana’s community foundation, with 300+ funds and $52 million in assets. Under her leadership Legacy Foundation has received the Secretaries’ Public-Philanthropic Partnership Award jointly presented by the... Read More →

Wednesday October 24, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Grand

Plenary and Receptions