The Collaboratory:for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research

Service today …servant leaders

tomorrow.

Welcome and thank you!

Incoming student directors

Jon Martin,Student Director

Erik Hornberger,Assistant Student

Director

New program manger

Tony Caito

News and planning updates

• Project planning process and time line

• Connecting Collaboratory alumni to your Group

• Input on video conferencing in Frey 351

• Member Achievement Portfolio (MAP)

M.A.P.

An online data base that enables members and teams to set goals for performance and get feedback.

• Participation− Service− Discipleship− Equipping− Leadership

• Hours

• Task completion

Why M.A.P.?

• Members − Performance assessment and feedback.− Compilation of service and achievement for use in

job searching and graduate school application.

• Teams− Team goal-setting and tracking. − Identify and celebrate accomplishment milestones.

• Marketing data − Authorizers− Investors

School Transition

The Collaboratory fosters organization-based learning and

Christian discipleship by enabling participants to serve the

Gospel in their areas of academic and professional

pursuit.

What is a Collaboratory?

Collaboratory support for you?

• Can the Collaboratory support you in your goals and responsibilities?−Teaching−Scholarship−Service

• Does the Collaboratory provide the kinds of support you need and want?

Collaboratory support

• Enables project continuity between academic years.− Recruits student workers.− Engenders student commitment.− Trains student workers and leaders.− Student leaders peer mentor their replacements.− Documents jobs and processes.− Continuous improvement of jobs and processes.− Intentional Christian discipleship.

• Workshops to equip advisors.• Attracts client organizations and projects.• Attracts funding. • Tracks team revenue and expenses.

Collaboratory support

• Information management resources: − Wiki for process documentation.− Data server for document archiving and retrieval.− Cumulus image data base.− CiviCRM self-service mailing list data base.− Member Achievement Portfolio (MAP).− Video editing station.

• Cross-cultural equipping.• Team travel logistics and risk management.• Manages relationships with the Development,

Business, Public Relations, Admissions, ITS, and other offices.

How advisors enable the Collaboratory

• Shared leadership: − students share leadership with educators, and learn

by seeing their teachers in action.− educators share leadership with students, mentoring

students to lead and working themselves out of a job.

• Player coaches: educators work with their mentees and make hands-on professional contributions to projects.

School Transition

• Creating organizational space for change.

• Identifying opportunity.

• Matching opportunities and resources.

School Transition

Next Steps?