Goal Achievement, Relationship Building, and Incrementalism: The Challenges of University-Community Partnerships

Wiewel, Wim; Lieber, Michael D.

doi:10.1177/0739456x9801700404

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“…To be sure, faculty, staff and residents had similar perceptions regarding the influence of the town-gown relationship on employment and job training, educational benefits, and graduation rates. These findings did not correspond to those of Gilderbloom and Mullins (1995); Wiewel and Lieber (1998); and the U. S. Department Housing and Urban Development (2003). The results from the research conducted by the above researchers revealed that the town-gown relationship between HBCUs and their communities did provide a significant impact on the sustainability of employment and job training, educational benefits, and graduation rates within these communities.…”

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The Impact of Town–Gown Relationships on the Sustainability of African American Communities: An Examination of the Role of HBCUs

Gallo

Davis

2008

J Afr Am St

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of faculty, staff, and residents regarding the town-gown relationship on the sustainability of the African American communities as it related to educational benefits, home ownership, employment and job training, earning potential, and graduation rates. A survey design was used to collect and analyze the data. The one-way of analysis of variance and the Scheffe' Multiple Comparison Test were used to analyze the data. The findings from this study indicated that in general, faculty, staff, and residents exhibited similar perceptions regarding the town-gown relationship on the sustainability of the community with respect to graduation rates, educational benefits, and employment and job training, and it appeared that the earning potentials of African American communities perceived that town-gown relationships had been more effective in increasing the earning potentials in the community than did the university staff members. Data suggested that faculty members perceived that the town-gown relationship had been more effective in enhancing home ownership in the community than staff members'.

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The Impact of Town–Gown Relationships on the Sustainability of African American Communities: An Examination of the Role of HBCUs

Gallo

Davis

2008

J Afr Am St

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“…The characteristics and outcomes of partnerships depend on a number of factors, including prior relationships and motivations (Maurrasse 2001;Wiewel and Lieber 1998), the leadership abilities of partners (Peters et al 2006;Weiss et al 2002), competing institutional demands (Bringle et al 1999;El-Ansari and Phillips 2004;Groark and McCall 1996;Israel et al 1998;Maurrasse 2001;Ward 2003), and trust and the balance of power (Israel et al 1998;Peters et al 2006).…”

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Brokering Community–University Engagement

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Although substantial areas of agreement exist regarding the characteristics of effective community-university partnerships for research, there is little empirical research on the relationship between the characteristics of such partnerships and their outcomes. In this study, we explored the relationship between partnership characteristics and partnership outcomes. Analyses of the relationships between partnership dynamics and perceived benefits show that (1) effective partnership management is associated with increased research on a community issue, problem, or need; (2) co-creation of knowledge is Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota. His research and scholarship focus on program evaluation and the evaluation of university-community partnerships.Celeste Sturdevant Reed is an evaluator with University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. She has an M.S.W. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Social Science/Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University. Her current evaluation projects focus on comprehensive early childhood services and out-of-school time (K-12) programs.Robert E. Brown is the Associate Director of University-Community Partnerships, Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement. He brokers, facilitates, and participates in university-community partnerships that are scholarly, community-based, collaborative, responsive, and capacity-building for the public good. He has a master's degree in public administration from Western Michigan University.

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“…Their expert knowledge of the communities in which they work are the key ingredient to building bottom-up solutions to health issues. However, due to several challenges in building partnerships with academic institutions, a topic that goes beyond the scope of this discussion, these collaborations are often difficult to initiate and maintain (Wiewel and Lieber, 1998;Wolff and Maurana, 2001;Suarez-Balcazer et al, 2005). By facilitating this process with students early on in their academic or professional careers, it is possible to instill first-hand knowledge of the benefit of these collaborations in our work, and in doing so build future capacity for students to address 'real-world' issues in our communities and populations (Seifer and Vaughn, 2004).…”

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'About time!' Insights from Research with Pride: a community-student collaboration

Abelsohn¹,

Ferne²,

Scanlon³

et al. 2011

Health Promotion International

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SUMMARYResearch with Pride (RwP) was a community-student collaborative initiative to promote and build capacity for community-based research exploring health and wellness in lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) communities. The event took place at University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) in September 2009, and engaged over 100 students, community members and academic researchers in a full day of discussion, learning and networking. RwP was initiated by a group of graduate students in Health Promotion who identified a gap in resources addressing LGBTQ health, facilitating their further learning and work in this area. By engaging in a partnership with a community service organization serving LGBTQ communities in downtown Toronto, RwP emerges as a key example of the role of community -student partnerships in the pursuit of LGBTQ health promotion. This paper will describe the nature of this partnership, outline its strengths and challenges and emphasize the integral role of communitystudent partnerships in health promotion initiatives.

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Goal Achievement, Relationship Building, and Incrementalism: The Challenges of University-Community Partnerships

Cited by 46 publications

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The Impact of Town–Gown Relationships on the Sustainability of African American Communities: An Examination of the Role of HBCUs

The Impact of Town–Gown Relationships on the Sustainability of African American Communities: An Examination of the Role of HBCUs

Brokering Community–University Engagement

'About time!' Insights from Research with Pride: a community-student collaboration

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