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Interinstitutional examination of partnership structures and tools: A collaborative practitioner-scholar inquiry

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Two universities (in the United Kingdom and the United States) collaboratively examined community-campus partnership practices adapting elements of the Transformational Relationship Evaluation Scale II (TRES; Kniffin et al., 2020) to analyze and reflect on the others’ partnership processes and to help create and refine approaches to partnership development. This article describes our interinstitutional practitioner-scholar inquiry and shares the approaches taken to understand and advance community-campus partnership practices by administrators within higher education structures. We present how the work on TRES influenced the process, share some of what we learned through it, and present some of the concrete products from it, including specific ways in which our work has been changed by this inquiry. The project described herein can be applied to other contexts, offering support to community engagement administrators as they seek to continually improve their partnership practices and to generate their own practitioner-scholarship to move the field forward.

Source: International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement

DOI: 10.37333/001c.127551

Authors: Andy Coppins, Harriet Raby, Becca Berkey, Patti Clayton

Institutions: Northeastern University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Nottingham Trent University

Language: English

Topic: Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4405468785