scholarly journals The Role of Community Engagement in Higher Education: Convergence Relating to Knowledge Growth- a Practical Model and Guidelines

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 6529-6534
Author(s):  
Chala Wata Dereso, Harrison Sunil Kumar Domathoti , Ram Gopal N. Ch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Qualitative Review ◽  
Applied Method ◽  
Knowledge Growth ◽  
Practical Model

As attention to community engagement nurtures and it is important that instructors, students, and community associatescomprehend how it is conceptualized. This paper representsresults from a qualitative review with academics and community engagement superintendents nationwide with esteem to how they conceptualize community service.This article reiterates the definition and thoughtfulnessof communityservice as one of the crucialareas of Higher Education Establishments in Ethiopia.Itsseizures the significance of a proper methodologyin the direction of community serviceand contributes about a applied method through the multifacetedinteraction between academic societies and communities. The present study will launch a healthierawareness of the community, its traditions, and its cultural programs as anall-inclusive platform for consideratelocalsocieties. Theproposed recommendationsmay facilitate community engagement architects to prepare andimplement community servicesschemes effectively.

scholarly journals The Emerging Role of Universities in Collective Impact Initiatives for Community Benefit

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Smith ◽  
Lynn Pelco ◽  
Alex Rooke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Higher Education Administrators ◽  
Community Benefit ◽  
Education Administrators ◽  
Anchor Institution

Universities are increasing their efforts to more clearly demonstrate their social value. This article illustrates how higher education administrators can incorporate collective impact partnerships in their community benefit strategies. The article explores two of the more familiar paradigms for community benefit—community engagement and anchor institution. Collective impact principles and practices are then presented. Finally, a case study provides a tangible example of how one university’s role in a collective impact initiative transitioned in response to the community. We end the article with ten takeaways and an invitation for higher education administrators to identify their own learning and action steps that can help shift focus from proving to improving their institution’s value to the community.

scholarly journals Widening participation and higher education. Students, systems and other paradoxes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Participation In Higher Education

This paper has developed from research that the author initiated. The data were derived from an outreach project that aimed to increase awareness of and participation in higher education amongst Muslim women within a major English city. The paper elevates some of the author's findings into a general discussion on the role of higher education (HE) and the paradoxes that are revealed when considering how concepts of widening participation and lifelong learning fit within the HE system. Readers are invited to think of different approaches to widening participation, for example through civic and community engagement, and consider sustained research that relates access to wider debates within the study of HE, such as lifelong learning and civic responsibility.

Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken?

Curatopia ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryony Onciul
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Complex Figure ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Physical Manifestation

Curation is increasingly recognised as a profession of high standing which requires extensive higher education. However, the proliferation of community engagement since the 1980s has placed new pressures and expectations on curators, thus complicating their role. This is particularly evident in the case of ethnographic curators working with indigenous communities. This chapter explores these issues by considering the ways that working with Blackfoot First Nations communities have affected the role and work of curators at three key museums, two in Canada and one in the UK. Historically museums, and de facto their curators, were often seen as an enemy by many indigenous communities as they appeared as a physical manifestation of colonialism. The historical practice of collecting sacred cultural material, and even the bones and bodies of indigenous people, have made museums synonymous with sites of death, both physical and cultural. Yet, nowadays they also present an exceptional resource and opportunity to revive and re-invigorate pre-colonial cultural knowledge and practice through their collections. Consequently, curators often find themselves in the dubious position of being both potential foe and ally. This is complicated further when curators work cross-culturally and try to embrace both indigenous and western ways of working, as this chapter explores. It has been argued that curators have moved from the position of ‘expert’ to that of ‘facilitator’ but this oversimplifies the complexities of voice, accountability and power in the representation of culture. There is a need for a more nuanced understandings of the pressures community engagement places on the role of curatorship, especially in this current time of increasing expectations on engagement and decreasing resources to support museological work.

Health Reform and Higher Ed: Campuses as Harbingers of Medicaid Universality and Medicare Commonality

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (S4) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Sallie Thieme Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Medicaid Expansion ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Higher Ed

Between 2010 and 2016, the percentage of uninsured higher education students dropped by more than half. All the Affordable Care Act's key access provisions contributed, but the most important factor appears to be the Medicaid expansion. This article is the first to highlight this phenomenon and ground it in data. It explores the reasons for this dramatic expansion of coverage, links it to theoretical frameworks, and considers its implications for the future of health reform. Drawing on Medicaid universality scholarship, I discuss potential consequences of including the educationally privileged in this historically stigmatized program. Extending this scholarship, I argue that the student experience and its reverberating effects portend support for emerging proposals to make Medicare a more common option. Woven into both analyses is the role of the Trump-era retrenchment, notably the administration's promotion of Medicaid “work or community engagement” requirements and of cheap, skimpy plans. Higher education students were an afterthought in the ACA's debates, and yet the law has profoundly impacted their coverage options. Students are now much more likely to have health insurance, and for it to be comprehensive. Looking to the next decade, the student experience harbingers support for both Medicaid universality and Medicare commonality.

scholarly journals Community-Based Research and the Faith-Based Campus

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Rich Janzen ◽  
Sam Reimer ◽  
Mark Chapman ◽  
Joanna Ochocka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Immigrant Settlement

  Over recent decades a significant shift has been taking hold on campuses of higher education in Canada and around the world. It is a shift towards community engagement. In this article our focus is on the research aspect of community engagement, and explores how this shift towards community-based research is playing itself out on the faith-based campus. We provide examples of two Canadian faith-based universities (Crandall University and Tyndale University College & Seminary) who were involved in a two-year community-campus research partnership called “The role of churches in immigrant settlement and integration”. Reflecting on this experience we learned that, similar to other institutions of higher education, an intentional shift towards community-based research on the faith-based campus requires attention to both the internal and external drivers that support such a shift. We also learned that faith-based campuses have their own unique ethos and therefore have distinctive drivers that can be leveraged to support such a shift. While our learnings arise out of the experience of two participating universities, their applicability may be of interest to other faith-based campuses in Canada and elsewhere.

scholarly journals An analytical review on rethinking service-learning as critical transformative paradigm in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-334
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saeed ◽  
Iqbal Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Transformative Pedagogy ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
Analytical Review

In recent times, service-learning has emerged as a popular community-based instructional pedagogy. However, scholars have a sharp contention about the role of service-learning as a community engagement paradigm in higher education. Furthermore, limited studies exist on service-learning as a transformative instructional pedagogy in higher education. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by presenting an analytical review on the potential of service-learning as a transformative pedagogy in higher education. A traditional narrative review method was used to survey on the theme of the study to establish a theoretical framework and draw conclusions. An extensive survey of existing literature was conducted on the role of service-learning as transformative pedagogy in higher education. This research may help answer the following two critical questions: What are internal and external limits to service-learning in higher education? To what extent can service-learning replace the traditional mode of teaching and learning in higher education successfully? The review shows that service-learning is a critical transformative pedagogy that helps achieve the boarder goals of higher education in a more effective way. The review further informs that service-learning is a community engagement approach that can also be used as a teaching method for achieving specific civic and democratic goals of higher education.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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