LUNCH & LEARN – Painting a Shared Canvas: The Art of Campus-Community Partnerships
Event Details
You are invited to join SOCHE for a virtual lunch and learn entitled “Painting a Shared Canvas: The Art of Campus-Community Partnerships,” on Tuesday, Nov. 18, beginning at 12 p.m. ET. The session will be presented by Kristen Collier, Dr. Kimberly Creasap, and Rachel Sherzer from Wittenberg University.
Mutually beneficial campus-community partnerships allow our local communities to improve services, retain talent, and strengthen social bonds. Students benefit from high impact experiences that increase their civic and career-ready learning. Community partners gain additional resources from these relationships that help them achieve their goals.
But campus-community partnerships can be tricky. We’re not talking about formal, legal, or contractual relationships, but the messy, human kind. Overlapping relationship networks are what create bonds between universities and communities. Many of these relationships happen organically, through shared interests, compatibility, or tradition, without much thought to how they are consciously initiated or sustained. A difficult aspect of campus-community relationships is knowing when it might be time to “break up” or dissolve a partnership—a difficult task in any relationship.
Using a developmental model, we will share techniques and practices to initiate, sustain, and dissolve campus-community partnerships. We also will share resources that campuses may adapt for their own partnership development purposes.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain the process of community partnership development
- Identify at least one partnership practice to utilize in their work
Join us to discover practical tools and proven strategies to build, sustain, and—when needed—gracefully end meaningful partnerships that benefit students, institutions, and communities alike.
Click here to reserve your spot today and learn how to turn collaboration into impact. Registration for this event will close on Sunday, Nov. 16.
When: Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 12-1 p.m. ET
Where: SOCHE Zoom platform (link sent at least 24 hours prior to event)
Cost:
- Personnel from SOCHE member schools: $5
- Personnel from NON-member schools/organizations: $10
- Students: FREE
Questions? Contact Mindy Claggett at SOCHE
Student Registration Fee Policy
Registration Cancellation Policy
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE ON SUNDAY, NOV. 16.
About the Presenters
Kristen Collier
Associate Director, Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement
Wittenberg University
Kristen Collier serves as the Associate Director of the Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University. In this role she provides leadership for partnership development, assessment for community engagement programs, and the Summer Civic Engagement Internship program. As a long-time resident of Springfield, Ohio, she finds joy in making connections between the campus and community and reading and listening to stories of social and personal change. She is the chair of the Partners in Prevention Youth Empowerment Taskforce, and serves on boards for organizations that address homelessness and empower communities through youth enrichment. Prior to joining Wittenberg, Kristen managed the service-learning program at Otterbein University. She also spent four years as a Senior Academic Advisor for undeclared and underprepared students at Northern Kentucky University. She earned her B.A. in English from Wittenberg University, and M.Ed. in College Student Personnel Administration from James Madison University.
Kim Creasap, Ph.D.
Director, Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement
Wittenberg University
Kim Creasap serves as the Director of the Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University. In this role, she provides strategic vision, oversight, and development for curricular initiatives related to civic engagement and works with faculty who do civically engaged teaching. As a sociologist, Kim specializes in social movements, collective action, and contentious politics in Europe and the United States. She has significant experience with community-engaged teaching and research, having worked with organizations such as the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, NC, Michigan Civil Rights Commission, and, most recently, the Clark County (Ohio) Health Department. Prior to joining Wittenberg, Kim taught sociology and women’s and gender studies at Colgate University and Wake Forest University and served as the Director of Gender & Sexuality at Denison University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.
Rachel Scherzer
Assistant Director, Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement
Wittenberg University
Rachel Scherzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University. In her role, she creates opportunities for students to engage with service and provides leadership for co-curricular student civic engagement programs. As a community service professional, she works to bring together student learning experiences with service and social change, connecting that learning to the local community and social justice issues students deal with on-campus. Prior to joining Wittenberg, Rachel served as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Otterbein University, working with the Promise House community resource center and food pantry. She earned her B.A in English Literary Studies from Otterbein University and her M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Student Affairs from Indiana University Bloomington.
