Building institutional capacity

Third Annual University Engagement Showcase: University of alberta

Thursday March 11, 2010Budd L Hall, University of Victoria

Changing World

Henry Marshall Tory“The modern state university is a people’s institution. The people demand that knowledge shall not be the concern of scholar’s alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal”

Henry Marshall tory- 1908

Frontier College - 1899

Faculty of extension-University of alberta-1912

Antigonish movement-ST. Francis Xavier-1930s-40s

Participatory research-OISE, University of Toronto-1970s

Indigenous-centred research methods -70s/80s

A canadian heritage

engagement rediscovered

Community-University Research Alliance-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Harris Centre at memorial University, Newfoundland

Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria

Extension at U of A Leads Engaged Scholarship

International Expressions

Community-University Partnership Project, University of Brighton

Science Shop of Wales

Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity

Beacons of Public Engagement, UK

“...the academy must become a more vigorous partner in the search for answers to our most pressing social, civic, economic, and moral problems, and must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I call the scholarship of engagement.”

Ernest Boyer, 1996

“Scholarly Engagement is the creation, integration, application and transmission of knowledge for the benefit of external audiences and the University and occurs in all areas of the University Mission: research, teaching and service. The quality and value of Scholarly Engagement is determined by academic peers and community partners”

University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2006)

Dimensions of Engaged Scholarship

Community-Based Research

Community Service Learning

Continuing Education and Extension

Cooperative Education

Indigenous-Centred Research

Performance and the arts

Knowledge Mobilisation

Challengesgetting buy-in across the full university

different knowledge cultures between and University and community

power differentials and Funding patterns

Tracking contacts and results

tenure and promotion

measuring impact

Getting buy-in

Leadership

strategic planning

new structures

Listening to others

changing reward structures

different knowledge cultures

joint community-university leadership

community-university engaged scholarship Institutes

academic support for advocacy issues

partnership agreements

payment to community researchers

Funding patternsAdvocacy for research funding to community researchers

creating partnership development grants

multiple funding packages

10 year partnerships

Data bases and tracking systems

Beyond the Expertise Data-Base: Yaffle to the Rescue?

tracking systems-trent university model?

Public access to university data bases?

Libraries rock!- university of victoria

recognizing excellence for tenure and promotion

Support for portfolio development

Broadening the concept of peers

Leadership

Visibility for those who succeed

campus wide discussions

Links to evolving practices elsewhere

measuring impactpublic access to facilities

public access to knowledge

student engagement

faculty engagement

widening participation

encouraging economic regeneration

institutional relationship and partnership building

from Angie Hart, Simon Northmore and Chloe Gehardt

University of VictoriaSteering Council on Civic Engagement

Office of Community-Based Research

Office of Cooperative Education

Office of Indigenous Affairs

Civic Engagement in our Strategic plan

National and GlobalCommunity-Based Research Canada

Canadian Alliance for Community service learning

global alliance for community engaged research

Les Talloires

global university networks for innovation

Now is the hourdifficult economic times means we need to work together across community-government-university lines

maturation of engaged scholarship as an academic field

development of new facilitative structures in our universities

recognition that knowledge is created in multiple locations

The world we want