scholarly journals A Campus-Wide Community-Engaged Learning Study: Insights and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Darren E. Lund ◽  
Bronwyn Bragg
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Learning Study ◽  
Engaged Learning ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
Senior Administration ◽  
The University ◽  
Wide Community ◽  
Guiding Questions

The authors undertook a campus-wide scan of community-engaged learning (CEL) initiatives at a large University. With collaboration from staff and leadership of the campus Centre For Community-Engaged Learning, the researchers designed an open-ended qualitative interview and questionnaire for senior administrators and faculty leaders across all local undergraduate faculties. Guiding questions for this project included: How do the various faculties and schools within the university define their relationship with community? What activities are considered CEL? How do students engage in these activities? What are the benefits of engaging with community? From these came specific interview questions that were administered to senior administration from each faculty, and further interviews were sought with identified faculty leaders. Findings are listed by faculty, with examples and definitions, and a concluding section offers insights and discussion around strategies to strengthen and enhance CEL. 

Not Just Football: An Intergroup Perspective on the Sandusky Scandal at Penn State

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton P. Alderfer
Keyword(s):  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
High School Coaches ◽  
Senior Administration ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Football Coaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Key Events

AbstractWhen the Penn State football scandal exploded in 2012, observers tended to frame events in terms of individuals behaving badly or irresponsibly. The perpetrator of child abuse was convicted and sent to prison; the head football coach was fired; the president of the University and several senior administrators were terminated; and the former head of the Board of Trustees was forced to resign. Certainly, these actions were understandable under the circumstances. Terrible crimes had been committed and covered up for over a decade. Nevertheless, an exclusively individual focus overlooks the roles of 9 groups whose collective behavior first allowed the criminal acts to occur and then put an end to them. The groups included the children's families and high school coaches, the Penn State football coaching staff, the Penn State senior administration, the Penn State Board of Trustees, the Second Mile charitable organization, the Centre County Pennsylvania criminal justice system, Penn State students, the Big 10 athletic conference, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. This article employs a group and intergroup perspective to analyze key events and to explain both the dysfunctional systemic behavior and the corrective actions.

scholarly journals Collaborative Autoethnography: An Approach to Deliver Learning Objectives of a Community-Engaged Research Course for Health Science Undergraduates during Pandemic Times

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angie Mejia
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Engaged Learning ◽  
Community Agencies ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
The University

Community Collaborative is an upper-division, community-engaged course at the University of Minnesota Rochester geared to health science majors. Each term, several groups of undergraduates collaborate on service-learning or research-based projects for local community agencies working on issues of health. A process was implemented to meet one learning objective in the syllabus (introduction to qualitative data methods) as a response to pandemic-imposed limitations on community-engaged learning activities at UMR. The hope was for one group of students to meet these objectives by engaging in a collaborative autoethnography instead of collecting data in the community.

scholarly journals En aksjonsforskningsstudie av samarbeid i grensesoner – betydningen av deltakernes forventninger

2020 ◽  
pp. 573-597
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Stenshorne ◽  
Janne Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Action Learning ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Learning Study ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Resource Teachers ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
School Based ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

Based on a specific, school-based development project this article reflects on the participants’ experiences of the process. Experiences are discussed with particular emphasis on expectations from three school leaders, teachers, resource teachers and the university mentors. These participants all joined with different experiences and possibilities. In this case, the mentors from the university are also the researchers. The participants worked across their professional boundaries. Cultural historical activity theory is the framework for gathering and analyzing data and for the collaboration between the participants. Narratives in this action learning study show how expectations support practitioners` involvement and motivation for improvement, which in turn contributes to changing the school practices. Furthermore, when different actors cross boundaries and meet over time in a third space, the dialogue is challenged and refined, and creativity and knowledge trigger new insights and understanding.

scholarly journals State of the Art in Paleoenvironment Mapping for Modeling Applications in Archeology—Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions from the PaleoMaps Workshop

Quaternary ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Christian Willmes ◽  
Kamil Niedziółka ◽  
Benjamin Serbe ◽  
Sonja B. Grimm ◽  
Daniel Groß ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Interaction Modeling ◽  
The University ◽  
New Procedures ◽  
Future Concepts

In this report, we present the contributions, outcomes, ideas, discussions and conclusions obtained at the PaleoMaps Workshop 2019, that took place at the Institute of Geography of the University of Cologne on 23 and 24 September 2019. The twofold aim of the workshop was: (1) to provide an overview of approaches and methods that are presently used to incorporate paleoenvironmental information in human–environment interaction modeling applications, and building thereon; (2) to devise new approaches and solutions that might be used to enhance the reconstruction of past human–environmental interconnections. This report first outlines the presented papers, and then provides a joint protocol of the often extensive discussions that came up following the presentations or else during the refreshment intervals. It concludes by adressing the open points to be resolved in future research avenues, e.g., implementation of open science practices, new procedures for reviewing of publications, and future concepts for quality assurance of the often complex paleoenvironmental data. This report may serve as an overview of the state of the art in paleoenvironment mapping and modeling. It includes an extensive compilation of the basic literature, as provided by the workshop attendants, which will itself facilitate the necessary future research.

Open social scholarship in action

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randa El Khatib ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Caroline Winter ◽  
Ray Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
The University ◽  
Guiding Questions

Abstract Open social scholarship highlights outreach and partnerships by emphasizing community-driven initiatives in an attempt to bridge the gap between the practices of the university and the goals of the community. Over the last few years, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria has introduced a number of initiatives to this end, including the Open Knowledge Program and Open Scholarship Awards. In describing these initiatives, the article engages the larger framework of community engagement and public-facing scholarship. The guiding questions for this article and our work more broadly are: how can we productively put open social scholarship into practice? What type of scholarship is considered public facing? What is the best practice around co-creating knowledge in the humanities with communities that are academic-aligned or non-academic?

GIMI: the past, the present and the future

2010 ◽  
Vol 368 (1925) ◽  
pp. 3891-3905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Simpson ◽  
David Power ◽  
Douglas Russell ◽  
Mark Slaymaker ◽  
Vernon Bailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
National Cancer Research Institute ◽  
The Future ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University

In keeping with the theme of this year’s e-Science All Hands Meeting—past, present and future—we consider the motivation for, the current status of, and the future directions for, the technologies developed within the GIMI (Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics) project. This analysis provides insights into how some key problems in data federation may be addressed. GIMI was funded by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board with the intention of developing a service-oriented framework to facilitate the secure sharing and aggregation of heterogeneous data from disparate sources to support a range of healthcare applications. The project, which was led by the University of Oxford, involved collaboration from the National Cancer Research Institute Informatics Initiative, Loughborough University, University College London, t+ Medical, Siemens Molecular Imaging and IBM UK.

scholarly journals Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin J. Pakeman ◽  
Francisco I. Pugnaire ◽  
Richard Michalet ◽  
Chris J. Lortie ◽  
Katja Schiffers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Ecosystem Restoration ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
Annual Symposium ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Work

The 2009 British Ecological Society's Annual Symposium entitled ‘Facilitation in Plant Communities’ was held at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, from 20 to 22 April 2009. This was the first ever international meeting dedicated to the rapidly expanding field of facilitation. The aim of the symposium was to assess the current ‘state-of-play’ by contrasting findings from different systems and by looking outwards in an attempt to integrate this field with other related fields. It was also aimed at understanding how knowledge of facilitation can help understand community dynamics and be applied to ecosystem restoration. The symposium identified several key areas where future work is likely to be most profitable.

scholarly journals UNIT ROOTS IN LIFE—A GRADUATE STUDENT STORY

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. B. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Unit Roots ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
To Come ◽  
Former Teachers ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
The University ◽  
Old Friends

On the evening of March 7, 2008, the New Zealand Econometric Study Group Meeting held its Conference Dinner. The venue was the Owen Glenn Building, the spectacular new home of the Auckland Business School and the Department of Economics at the University of Auckland. The meeting was organized by my colleagues, co-authors, and close companions Donggyu Sul and Chirok Han. Chirok did double duty by videotaping the evening, Donggyu coordinated festivities with consummate skill, and we settled in to a memorable evening.Econometricians, old friends, former students, two of my former teachers, faculty, and senior administrators were gathered together to celebrate my 60th birthday. Many had traveled long distances from overseas and navigated busy schedules to come to this event. It was a singular honor. My wife and daughter were with me. Opening speeches from Bas Sharp and John McDermott broke the ice with endearing tales from the past and jokes about some mysterious hole in my vita. I stood at the front table, looked out, and felt a glow of fellowship envelop me. I was fortunate indeed. Life had bestowed many gifts. The warmth of family, friends, and collegiality were at the top of the list. My education and early training in New Zealand were a clear second.What follows is a graduate student story. It draws on the first part of the speech I gave that evening at the NZESG conference dinner. It mixes personal reflections with recollections of the extraordinary New Zealanders who shaped my thinking as a graduate student and beginning researcher—people who have had an enduring impact on my work and career as an econometrician. The story traces out these human initial conditions and unit roots that figure in my early life of teaching and research.

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