Community Partner Guide to Campus Collaborations

Discover Campus Resources for Identifying Volunteers and Service-Learners

Decode Confusing Language, Terminology, and Acronyms of Academe

Decipher Your Academic Partner’s Goals for Community-Based Learning and Research

Devise Empowering Learning and Serving Experiences for Students and Clients

Design Sustainable and Enriching Relationships for Enhancing Communities

Based upon years of field experience, this Guide is addressed to you, whether your non-profit has experience of working with university interns or volunteers but wants to deepen and increase the effectiveness of the relationship; whether your agency is starting to explore how to improve client services through a campus collaboration; or whether you work for an NGO interested in partnering with universities across borders to effect positive change and draw attention to the challenges, resources, and needs of your community. This Guide offers insights and strategies to leverage student learning and community empowerment for the benefit of both parties. Recognizing both the possibilities and the pitfalls of community-campus collaborations, it demystifies the often confusing terminology of education, explains how to locate the right individuals on campus, and addresses issues of mission, expectations for roles, tasks, training, supervision, and evaluation that can be fraught with miscommunication and misunderstanding. Most importantly it provides a model for achieving full reciprocity in what can be an unbalanced relationship between community and campus partners so that all stakeholders can derive the maximum benefit from their collaboration.

This Guide is also available in sets of six or twelve, at reduced prices, to facilitate its use for planning, and for training of leaders engaged in partnerships.

The Community Partner Guide to Campus Collaborations Six Copy Set

978-1-62036-271-6, $87.00

The Community Partner Guide to Campus Collaborations Twelve Copy Set

978-1-62036-272-3, $150.00