A Two-Sided Triangle? The College, the Community, and Community-Engaged Student Learning
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Room246, Mengminwei BLDG
Short Bio:
Jeffrey L. Brudney is the Betty and Dan Cameron Family Distinguished Professor of Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector at University of North Carolina Wilmington. His research focuses on the Nonprofit Management,Public Service Delivery,Research Methods and Statistics,Volunteering and Volunteer Programs. Dr.Brudney is the author of Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector: Planning,Initiating, and Managing Voluntary Activities, for which he received the John Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Education. He is the author of many other publications, including Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration, now in its ninth edition, which has been used for instruction in more than 120 colleges and universities.
Abstract:
The long period during which colleges and universities in the United States could count on important stakeholders to take for granted the value of institutions of higher learning to the community has come to an end. This presentation focuses on one aspect of this complicated relationship: student engaged learning in the community. It shows that despite the evolution in the terminology used to place the three key stakeholders in community-engaged learning -- the university, the students, and the community -- on a more equal footing, research and practice tend to view this activity primarily, and nearly exclusively, from the vantage point of its benefits and challenges for students and educational institutions. The presentation illustrates assessment methods to overcome this oversight, as well as recommends novel approaches to take the community perspective into account more fully through course design and the use of video technology.
