Phennd Resources

Becoming a Good Community Partner

2008-08-27T11:39:54-04:00

Thinking about community partnership in a new light often helps individuals create, develop, manage, and evaluate their partnerships in more meaningful and effective ways. This workshop is designed to help participants think about campus-community partnership in the context of a marriage or other romantic relationship. Participants will brainstorm elements of good and bad personal relationships and then project those qualities onto service-based partnerships. Participants will also formulate a list of best practices for campus-community partnership as they re-think their own partnerships based on this new perspective. Finally, participants will be given an evaluation tool to help them assess the quality of their partnerships.

Global Studies 201 - Poverty at Home and Abroad - Chestnut Hill College

2008-05-16T10:11:32-04:00

Poverty at Home and Abroad

Instructor: Ryan Murphy
email: murphyr at chc dot edu

This seminar course is designed as a service-learning course. Service-learning is an experiential education technique that puts coursework into action through relevant service to the community. These experiences also serve as foundations for classroom discussion and real-world synthesis of academic theory. Beginning in week four (2/11-2/15) and continuing through the last week of classes (5/5-5/9), students will perform at least two (2) hours of community service per week at a service site to augment coursework. Assistance will be provided finding a service site, if needed. All sites must first be approved by the instructor. Topics discussed will be factors surrounding global poverty including: education, trade, employment, hunger and homelessness. By examining these issues through a global lens and drawing from student service experiences in Philadelphia, it is expected that students will connect the poverty issues facing Philadelphia with those of the global community.

Keynote Speech: Beyond Civil Rights and Liberal “Do Goodism”: Recreating the Urban Metropolis

2008-04-28T13:24:45-04:00

The purpose of this essay is to revisit the role of higher education in the struggle to transform the urban metropolis into a community based on participatory democracy and racial and socioeconomic justice—an urban region, where the only place you can see distressed communities, and the downtrodden souls that inhibit them, are in the history museum. The essay will be divided into three parts. I will begin by discussing the contextual setting within which Higher Eds in the U.S. are battling to bring about change in the nation as a whole. In the second segment, I’ll explore the significance of “place” and the community transformation imperative, and then finally, I will comment on the importance of developing and organizing regional networks between institutions of higher education.

Learning to Dance: Forming Regional Networks - Part II

2008-04-08T12:33:06-04:00

As colleges and universities renew their commitment to the public good and their institutional stewardship for surrounding communities, they may discover that they share community partnerships with neighboring institutions of higher education. Their institutional missions, faculty research and teaching interests, and student leadership core may align to enhance their community’s quality of life. This workshop will identify promising practices and resources for forming regional networks that support service-learning, volunteerism and civic engagement.

Learning to Dance: Forming Regional Networks - Part I

2008-03-27T11:29:32-04:00

Carnegie Classification for Civic Engagement and Sustainabilty for Institutionalization of Service-Learning

2008-03-27T11:24:07-04:00

The Carnegie Foundation’s voluntary Community Engagement Classification both allows institutions to achieve recognition as well as providing them with a tool that can inform a strategic, sustainable approach to community engagement. The framework used by the Community Engaged Classification provides a guide for institutions to develop and document their community engagement efforts. The framework is intentionally designed to support multiple definitions, diverse approaches, and institutionally-unique examples and data. This workshop will provide participants with a greater understanding of the Classification on Community Engagement, and will demonstrate how the institutions can use the Classification to advance their community engagement efforts.

The Senior Project Initiative: Regional K-16 Collaboration

2008-03-21T09:58:51-04:00

The Senior Project Initiative: Regional K-16 Collaboration presented by Hillary Aisenstein and Brad Leposa, PHENND and Michelle Grimley, School District of Philadelphia

For many years, PHENND has partnered with the School District of Philadelphia, to help connect colleges and universities to local schools for all manner of programs and partnerships. Currently, PHENND is working with the District to partner 10 public high schools with colleges in the region to help implement a newly rigorous “Senior Project.” College students serve as “academic coaches” to high school seniors as they choose a research topic, investigate it, write a paper, conduct fieldwork, and do an oral presentation. The presenters will share their lessons learned from the first year of collaboration and discuss more broadly how colleges and universities, particularly through a regional collaboration, can support education reform efforts of their local districts.

The Worcester UniverCity Partnership

2008-03-21T09:57:39-04:00

The Worcester UniverCity Partnership: “We’re All in This Thing Together……….Most of the Time” presented by Armand Carriere, Worcester UniverCity Partnership

The Worcester UniverCity Partnership (WUP) is a unique collaboration among the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, the City of Worcester, and the Worcester business community with the stated purpose of engaging more fully the resources of the colleges in the economic and social development of the City. As the WUP enters its third year of operation burgeoning strengths and inherent weaknesses are becoming manifest. Executive Director Armand Carriere will examine the development of this partnership in Worcester, Massachusetts, citing the advantages of being able to access the resources of multiple colleges but also addressing the challenges associated with aligning the mission, goals, and vision of three disparate sectors of the community.

Communication: The Glue that Holds the Network Together

2008-03-21T09:56:10-04:00

Communication: The Glue that Holds the Network Together presented by Hillary Aisenstein, PHENND and Dr. Suzanne Blanc

So, what makes a network work? Borrowing from social network theory and community organizing, PHENND Director Hillary Aisenstein will share the methods and strategies PHENND uses to keep the network growing and thriving. These methods rely heavily on electronic and other forms of communication. PHENND’s evaluator, Dr. Suzanne Blanc, will also discuss recent results of surveys and interviews of various PHENND members about how they use the network and for what purpose.

Collaborative Learning for Environmental Action Network

2008-03-21T09:53:57-04:00

Presentation from Glenn Odenbrett, CLEAN Network, as part of the plenary panel: Science, Technology, and Math Education Networks for Social and Economic Development