“I had a big revelation”: Student Experiences in Community- First Community-Campus Engagement

Przednowek, Anna; Goemans, Magdalene; Wilson, Amanda

doi:10.15402/esj.v4i2.61746

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“…This article focuses on a selection of findings from a larger internal environmental scan of one slice of community-university interaction, namely, on community-engaged learning opportunities for undergraduate students at the University of Calgary (Bragg & Lund, 2015). Past studies of the impact of organizational decisions have typically focused on student perspectives (e.g., Armitage & Levac, 2015;De Leon, 2014;Moely & Ilustre, 2014;Przednowek et al, 2018) or faculty perspectives (e.g., Cooper, 2014;O'Meara et al, 2013). Drawing on university administrators and program directors' engagement, this research seeks to provide an overlooked perspective in communityengaged learning (CEL) planning and programming.…”

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

Lund

Bragg

2021

ESJ

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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.

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

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Bragg

2021

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“…matic areas addressing pressing social and ecological issues including violence against women, community food security and food sovereignty (Andrée, Kepkiewicz, Levkoe, Brynne, & Kneen, 2016;Kepkiewicz, Levkoe, & Brynne, 2018;Kepkiewicz, Srivastava, Levkoe, Brynne, & Kneen, 2017;Levkoe et al, 2016;Levkoe, Brem-Wilson, & Anderson, 2019;Levkoe, Erlich, & Archibald, 2019;Nelson & Dodd, 2016), poverty reduction (Erickson, Findlay, & Christopherson-Cote, 2018;Pei, Feltham, Ford, & Schwartz, 2015;Schwartz, Weaver, Pei, & Miller, 2016;Zeng & Honig, 2017), and community environmental sustainability (Martin & Ballamingie, 2016;Nasca, Changfoot, & Hill, 2018). In the second phase of CFICE, from 2015 to 2019, campus and community partners worked on cross-sector collaborations to further develop specific practices and approaches, including community-based CCE brokering (Levkoe, Schembri, & Wilson, 2018;Levkoe & Stack-Cutler, 2018;, student pathways for community impact (Przednowek, Goemans, & Wilson, 2018), and community-based organization access to research tools. 2 The second phase of CFICE also resulted in a new national network and community-of-practice known as Community Campus Engage Canada (https://ccecanada.ca/), which is expected to carry the community first ethos forward on the national stage for years to come.…”

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Special Section Introduction: Community Impacts of Engaged Research, Teaching, and Practice

Andrée¹,

Changfoot²,

Levkoe³

2020

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

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As the annals of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning can attest, engaged partnerships have become a powerful tool to enhance teaching and research on university and college campuses around the world. Community-campus engagement (CCE) is both an epistemological and methodological approach. It includes community-based research and participatory action research, community service learning as well as other forms of co-learning and knowledge mobilization. The Carnegie Foundation provides a strong overarching definition of community engagement as "the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity." 1 While the above definition places CCE in the context of higher education, community-based organizations increasingly recognize the value of partnering with faculty, students, and campus staff to increase their capacity, broaden their reach, and accomplish their goals. However, there are inherent challenges involved in bringing typically small, and often underfunded, community-based organizations into partnership with large academic institutions, even when the principle of reciprocity is assumed. Acknowledging both the opportunities and challenges of partnership-based work, researchers and community-based practitioners have called for more community-oriented approaches that put the primary focus on generating meaningful benefits and impacts for community-based partners in CCE (

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Evaluating the Impacts of Community-Campus Engagement on Population Health in Ottawa and Thunder Bay, Canada: A Mixed-Method Contribution Analysis Protocol (Preprint)

Buetti,

Larche,

Fitzgerald

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BACKGROUND Municipalities play a crucial role in population health due to their community connections and influence on health determinants. Community-campus engagement (CCE), collaborations between academic institutions and communities, is a promising collaborative approach to addressing community health priorities. However, evidence of CCE's impact on population health remains limited. Measuring the impacts of CCE is inherently complex due to factors such as diverse stakeholders, context-specific variables, and dynamic interactions within a community. OBJECTIVE This research aims to develop robust evidence on the impacts of CCE on population health outcomes in Ottawa and Thunder Bay, Canada, focusing on five shared health priorities: housing, discrimination, poverty, violence, and mental health. METHODS We will use a proven CCE model called CityStudio, which has been implemented in both cities. We will employ Mayne’s mixed-methods Contribution Analysis in three stages: (1) Formulating a Theory of Change that outlines the expected contributions of CCE to population health outcomes, (2) Gathering qualitative and quantitative data in line with the established Theory of Change. The data will be collected from various sources, including case studies of existing CityStudio projects, an online CCE stakeholder survey, a literature review, and population and community health data, and (3) Reviewing the gathered evidence to determine the extent of CCE impacts on population health. RESULTS Ethics approval for this project was granted in May 2023. We have since initiated Stage 1 by reviewing the literature to inform the development of the Theory of Change. We expect to complete this study by May 2026. CONCLUSIONS Our study will address two critical gaps about how improving health outcomes depends on CCE: (i) how academic institutions can best engage with their communities to improve population health outcomes, and (ii) how municipalities can engage with academic institutions to address their community health priorities. Conducting our work in differing contexts will allow us to consider a broader range of other influences on outcomes, thus making our work applicable to various settings and outcomes.

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“I had a big revelation”: Student Experiences in Community- First Community-Campus Engagement

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

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

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

Special Section Introduction: Community Impacts of Engaged Research, Teaching, and Practice

Evaluating the Impacts of Community-Campus Engagement on Population Health in Ottawa and Thunder Bay, Canada: A Mixed-Method Contribution Analysis Protocol (Preprint)

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