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ERIC Number: EJ1394829
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jul
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1047-8485
EISSN: EISSN-2472-3451
Toward a Research and Practice Agenda for Evaluation in Community-Campus Partnerships
Kuttner, Paul J.; Rawlings, Lisa; Washington, Marcie R.
Metropolitan Universities, v34 n3 p82-88 Jul 2023
Evaluation of community-campus partnerships is a contested topic and, in many ways, is still at an early stage of development. With growing momentum behind community-university collaboration and increased pressure to document the positive impact of universities, there is a pressing need for research and innovation in this area. Many community engagement professionals are looking for new and creative approaches to evaluating partnership work -- approaches that capture the work's depth, complexity, and values and can be used to foster learning, community accountability, collaboration, and systems change. This article proposes six promising directions for research and practice related to evaluating campus-community partnerships. They emerged as themes from an interactive CUMU Community Engagement Evaluation Huddle session at the annual CUMU conference. Drawing on the collective knowledge of Huddle participants, we identified the following directions: (1) evaluating systemic racism; (2) community-driven evaluation; (3) community impact and benefit; (4) evaluating relationships; (5) alignment of stakeholders; and (6) blended approaches. We offer these directions, key questions, and examples from the field as a first step toward a field-wide agenda for advancing evaluation in a critical, participatory, community-based spirit. [Note: The issue number (4) shown in the citation on the PDF is incorrect. The correct issue number is 3.]
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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