Community Engagement 2.0: Developing Curriculum through Community Partnerships
Presentation Format
Individual Presentation
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Presentation Description
Sam Houston State University (SHSU) has been a Carnegie Engaged university since 2010 with a robust Academic Community Engagement (ACE) program coordinated through its Center for Community Engagement. Even so, while each of the seven colleges at SHSU offers ACE courses, any given discipline may have only a few options. In this presentation, we share what we’ve learned in creating an interdisciplinary minor in Community Leadership that takes our individual ACE offerings to the next level. Specifically, we explain how the development of this community-centered curriculum began “on the streets”—a very unusual approach to creating university curriculum—that was a true town-and-gown collaboration with community leaders taking an active role.
Join us in this interactive session to learn about the challenges and rewards of this process. The proposed session will present perspectives from a faculty member, the Director of the Center for Community Engagement, an academic dean, and the mayor of Huntsville, TX, home to our main campus, on this unusual approach to engaging the community in higher education. An added benefit of this community-university partnership in curriculum development is that a broad range of community leaders (local and regional) have volunteered to be co-educators in our ACE courses, visiting campus to help teach classes and hosting student site visits and internship experiences. This integration of campus and community expertise benefits students, faculty, and communities. Participants will leave with ideas of how to engage their communities in collaborative curriculum building.
Location
Room - 212
Start Date
4-15-2016 9:45 AM
End Date
4-15-2016 11:00 AM
Recommended Citation
Miller, Lee M.; McCauley, Joyce; and Zink, Abbey, "Community Engagement 2.0: Developing Curriculum through Community Partnerships" (2016). Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning 2016. 66.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gss/2016/2016/66
Community Engagement 2.0: Developing Curriculum through Community Partnerships
Room - 212
Sam Houston State University (SHSU) has been a Carnegie Engaged university since 2010 with a robust Academic Community Engagement (ACE) program coordinated through its Center for Community Engagement. Even so, while each of the seven colleges at SHSU offers ACE courses, any given discipline may have only a few options. In this presentation, we share what we’ve learned in creating an interdisciplinary minor in Community Leadership that takes our individual ACE offerings to the next level. Specifically, we explain how the development of this community-centered curriculum began “on the streets”—a very unusual approach to creating university curriculum—that was a true town-and-gown collaboration with community leaders taking an active role.
Join us in this interactive session to learn about the challenges and rewards of this process. The proposed session will present perspectives from a faculty member, the Director of the Center for Community Engagement, an academic dean, and the mayor of Huntsville, TX, home to our main campus, on this unusual approach to engaging the community in higher education. An added benefit of this community-university partnership in curriculum development is that a broad range of community leaders (local and regional) have volunteered to be co-educators in our ACE courses, visiting campus to help teach classes and hosting student site visits and internship experiences. This integration of campus and community expertise benefits students, faculty, and communities. Participants will leave with ideas of how to engage their communities in collaborative curriculum building.
Program Abstract
In this presentation, we share what we’ve learned in creating an interdisciplinary minor in Community Leadership that takes our individual Academic Community Engagement course offerings to the next level. Specifically, we explain the unusual development of this community-centered curriculum and some surprising results. Perspectives from a faculty member, the Director of the Center for Community Engagement, an academic dean, and the mayor of Huntsville, TX, home to our main campus, will be presented.