We’re All in This Together: How one University Drew on Collective Impact Principles to Advance Student Success in Higher Education

Jones, Bruce Anthony; Croft, Maureen; Longacre, Teri Elkins

doi:10.18060/21741

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Engaging Ethnography: Student Engagement as a Means for Creating Change

Hathaway

Kuzin

2007

NAPA Bulletin

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Our communities, particularly the poor and minority, are experiencing the destructive effects of neoliberal policies. Such policies dismantle social safety nets, locate causes of poverty and criminality in individual bodies and neighborhoods, and foster the privatized “free” market as the solution to our society's problems. Although government, at all levels, abandons the social welfare agenda, individual residents and neighborhoods are forced to assume further responsibility for managing and improving immiserated conditions. Dedicated residents, student volunteers, and service agency workers provide the only stop‐gap between “making ends meet” and destitution (Edin and Lein 1997). This paper is an account of a summer youth program developed by two anthropology students, as a result of their long‐term, politically engaged ethnographic work among community residents, and children and staff at a recreation center located in an ethnically diverse but minority and low‐income concentrated neighborhood. Incorporating the aspects of experiential education, service‐learning, community development and applied anthropology, we endeavored to demonstrate that a politicized anthropology was capable of doing more than just documenting the effects of structural violence, the dif.culties experienced by marginalized populations, and the effectiveness of personal agency. Through engaged ethnography and collaboration we helped create new knowledge and applications that have been useful and valued by the community and other researchers at the University of South Florida.

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Engaging Ethnography: Student Engagement as a Means for Creating Change

Hathaway

Kuzin

2007

NAPA Bulletin

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The Evolution of a Training Program on Mental Health and Dyslexia

Martens,

Hawkins,

Hassett

et al. 2024

Optimizing Education Through Micro-Lessons

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Our region faces many challenges, including how to support students with mental health and reading barriers, who are at risk for not thriving in school and beyond. Recently, Texas mandated that teachers become more proficient at identifying these challenges. Improved awareness leads to better identification and support. As a result, teacher preparation programs were tasked with improving their curriculums without adding time to degree-completion. Well-designed micro-lessons within modules are a solution. They can be diversified to address educators' needs at different professional stages and roles. They also can support adults in gaining traction in problem-solving together. Attaining this collective state of awareness-to-action remains a challenge for those who train and develop the workforce. Yet urgent problems of practice remain—threatening progress in achieving a more equitable educational system. This chapter explains how the authors managed this improvement work.

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We’re All in This Together: How one University Drew on Collective Impact Principles to Advance Student Success in Higher Education

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Engaging Ethnography: Student Engagement as a Means for Creating Change

Engaging Ethnography: Student Engagement as a Means for Creating Change

The Evolution of a Training Program on Mental Health and Dyslexia

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