campus wide collaboration

Campus-Wide Collaboration

Building the Culture of Engagement

What We’ll Cover

• Revisiting Governance

• Collaborating across campus

• Faculty engagement

• Students as Colleagues

Governance: Where You’re

Housed

Consider your…

• Access to resources

• Visibility and location

• Access to students

• Access and status with faculty

• Institutional respect

• The potential for building a culture of service

Some Governance Considerations

Strengths Concerns Other

Student Affairs

Fit with broader

departmental mission;

student-led programs;

larger scale; access to areas like Residence

Life

Fails to become integrated at institution’s

core (faculty); lack of

curricular change;

co-curricular devaluation

Many campuses have started

from this vantage point



Academic Affairs

Build in access to and

engagement of faculty; with care, may be

able to build in research and scholarship

Service can be episodic if only tied to courses;

must put attention on

student leadership; may

miss opportunity for campus

developmental model

Having program under

Academic Affairs does

not guarantee curricular

change



Integrated Center

May leverage resources &

change; curricular and

co-curricular integration; high

potential for campus-wide

institutionalization

Coordination and decision-

making involves more time & people; top down vs.

bottom up drivers

Many established

campuses seem to be moving

here, but change is still

hard

Regardless you want…

• Staffing

• Budget

• Authority

• Institutionalization

Questions? Other ideas?

Collaborating Across Campus

Opportunities to Collaborate

Leverage Bonner to build

campus-wide culture

Academic Departments

Chaplain/Religious Life

Public Relations/IT Department

Student Life/Affairs

Career Services

Multicultural Affairs

Study Abroad

Admissions


Student Life/Affairs student development

shared training integrated calendar

student groups / service events learning communities


Admissions recruitment

pipelines selection diversity


Career Services career advising & training

fairs & employment career exploration

internships


Multicultural Affairs diversity training

recruitment community relations

special projects


International Affairs study abroad service trips internships

training & courses


Public Relations/IT Department

media news & events

website branding


Chaplain/Religious Life service groups

vocational discernment advising

workshops


Academic Departments CBR & research

courses (designator) High-Impact Practices (HIPs)

departmental strategies minor/major

• Individual

• Teams (Carnegie or High-Impact)

• Advisory Boards

• Formalized

Key Strategies for Collaboration

• Access to and support of senior leadership

• Financial support (i.e., work study, stipends) for students to engage in service

• Visibility in online and written communications (from recruiting to alumni news)

• Faculty engagement and curricular links

• Lived mission, strategic plans, and budget that reflects community engagement priorities

Key Factors for Institutional Support

• Strategically build your team—starting with students

• Creatively consider new programs—from more Federal Work Study placements to partnering with national organizations

• Integrate, integrate, integrate

• Communicate frequently, positively, and strategically with supervisors—manage up

• Build a core constituency on and off campus

Recommendations for Building Support

Questions? Other ideas?

Faculty Engagement

• Connects with the mission of higher education and institution

• Can enable engagement of faculty and more students in addressing the needs and wants of community

• Scholarship, research, and capacity-building projects

• Learning outcomes and measures

Why It's Important & Integrative

A Framework and Continuum

Transactional------->Transformational------->Institutional Alignment

•Short-term investment •Important and possibly necessary •May not lead to long-term relationships

•Ongoing and repeated•Involve more relationship building & program development

•Involve several faculty members and senior leaders•Can help foster changes to institutional policies and culture.

• Access resources (from Bonner, Campus Compact, etc.) to offer a few transactional supports

• Invest in some key transformational strategies

• Faculty Development

• Students as Colleagues

• Get connected to institutional alignment strategies

Recommendations

• Resource Library

• Assist faculty with site connections and transportation

• Share publication opportunities

• Take to Bonner Conferences; share professional development

• Involve in doing inventories, like Bonner Self-Assessment Tool

• Help faculty members plan reflection and present to classes

• Faculty recognition and awards

• Write letters of reference for tenure portfolios (www.ccph.org)

Transactional

http://www.ccph.org

• Faculty Development Workshops and Seminars (Bonner can connect you with people/models)

• Faculty Fellowships (formal role)

• Student Faculty Pairing/Teaching Assistants (Students as Colleagues)

• Course/Program development support grants (Mini-Grants for Service-Learning, CBR, etc.)

• Faculty Advisory Boards

• Departmental Strategies

Transformational

• Strategic Planning

• Student Learning Outcomes/Assessment

• Course designators

• QEPs/Accreditation

• Tenure & Promotion Standards

• Join Bonner High-Impact Initiative (team of faculty, partners, students, and administrators)

Institutional Alignment

• Link Bonner Program with academic study from the get-go through:

• Cornerstone Activities

• Sequence of courses and high-impact practices

Final Key Recommendation

Example: Link with Cornerstones

Exploration • First Year

Trip • linked with

First Year seminar

Experience • Second Year

Exchange • linked with

Service-Learning Course or Learning Community

Example • Third Year

International Trip or Leadership Role • linked with

Undergraduate Research experience

Expertise • Capstone

service placement • linked with

Capstone course

Example: Academic Pathway

Exploration• Lead in course• First Year

seminar• Learning

community

Experience• Government/

policy courses• Poverty courses• Service-learning

(potentially tied to placement)

• Learning community

Example• CBR coursework

(methodology)

• Advanced service-learning coursework

• Undergraduate research

• Public Policy Issue Brief assignments

Expertise• Capstone course /

Senior Seminar

• Undergraduate research

• Honors’ thesis project—tied to Bonner work

Utilize model

•Public Policy

•Poverty

•International perspective and issues

•Issue-based knowledge

•Place-based knowledge

•Diversity

Students as Colleagues

Theory

•Classroom, Project Design, On Campus

What We’ll Cover

1. How students work with faculty- Students’ roles

2. What training students need to reach colleagues level? - How students are selected - How training is implemented

3. Model or structure (diagram)- How does it build capacity?

4. Benefits to faculty/students

5. Overcome challenge of unequal power between students and faculty?

- Students taken serious?

Student - Faculty Fellowship Model

Example: Allegheny College

Roles:

- ACES Fellow- Students designed

- Gateway Project

- Values, Ethics and Social Action Major

Students Work on Course Design

Example: Siena College

- Instructor uses a guide to course design (online) to teach students how to turn goals to assessment to activities

- Students are paired with faculty

- Students are taught how to develop faculty rapport, and facilitation skills

- Students learn to design effective workshops outside the classroom

Student Leadership & Service-Learning Team

Example: Berea CollegeCoalition of projects model

!!!!!

Student!Director!

Program!Coordinators

!Team Members!

!Volunteers

Addressing Power Dynamics

- Understand and respect student voice

- Continue to clarify role of student

- Students learn as they go

- Students tap into faculty for expertise in discipline/field

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