Compañeros Por Salud: Partners in Health

Deborah Shelton, PhD, RN, BC; Carolyn Mull, PhD, RN; Mary Grace Amendola, BSN, doctoral student; Olga Jarrin, BSN, Doctoral student, University of Connecticut, School of Nursing; Deborah.Shelton@uconn.edu

University-Community Partnerships for Health: Wellness Education for Teen Mothers and Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Mary Duquin, PhD, mduquin@pitt.edu; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Health and Physical Activity

The Boston Community-Academic Mental Health Partnership: Developing a Sustainable Community-University Participatory Mental Health Research Center

Alisa Lincoln, MPH, PhD, Jonathan Delman, JD, MPH DsC (cand.); Melissa Hagan, MPH mjhagan@bu.edu

The New England Consortium: A University-Community Partnership to Build and Strengthen the New England Health and Safety Movement

Jane Fleishman, Paul Morse, Chuck Levenstein, Craig Slatin, Department of Community Health and Sustainability University of Massachusetts Lowell, craig_slatin@uml.edu

A Partnership of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs for better College-Community Relations

Nancy Moses and Diane Bell, Bridgewater State College, dbell@bridgew.edu

Does One Size Fit All?  Models and Strategies for Sustaining Gains in Community-University Partnerships

Joan Arches, PhD, College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts, Boston, joan.arches@umb.edu

 Dean Cleghorn and Milagro Grullón

Valuing Engagement: How Do We Express the Meaning of our Partnership Efforts?

Anne Chalupka and Robert Forrant annechalupka@yahoo.com

UMass Lowell Dept. of Regional Economic and Social Development

Don’t Wait Until Next Year: Engaged Research as an Asset in Tenure and Promotion

Phil Nyden, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago

Worcester UniverCity Partnership: If 1 Is Good, Are 9 Better?

Armand Carriere, carriere@universitypartnership.org

Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Their Communities: Partnering to Achieve and Sustain Success

Dr. Alma Thornton, Director Center for Social Research, Southern University

William Hawn, Program Manager Southern University Economic and Enterprise Development Project and Universities Rebuilding America Partnership Project

New Structures and Strategies for Community Engagement and Training Partnership Development in a Merged Comprehensive University

George De Lange, Director of Academic Engagement and Collaboration Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

Responsiveness to community needs through student volunteerism: a case study on a student-run Non Profit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Varkey George, Director: SHAWCO, University of Cape Town, South Africa, www.shawco.org

Where Will Students Learn to Collaborate to Reach Community Outcomes?

Dr. Judith Oleson, Associate Professor of Sociology/Social Work at Gordon College,Valerie  Buchanan, Director of the “Gordon in Lynn” Program, Judith.Oleson@gordon.edu

International University-Community Partnerships

Heather Makrez, Graduate Student, UMass Lowell, hmakrez@umassp.edu; Dept. of Regional Economic and Social Development

Partnerships for School Success: Achieving the Promise

Participants: Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation; Caribou High and University of Maine Presque Isle; Dorchester Education Complex and University of Massachusetts Boston; Lowell High and University of Massachusetts Lowell; University Park Campus School and Clark University

Facilitators: Rossy Matos-Miranda, Woodrow Wilson Foundation & Dr. Joyce Gibson, UML Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Services

Matos-Miranda@woodrow.org

Informal Partnerships Work: A Look at the Relationship between the Coalition for a Better Acre and the Regional Economic and Social Development Department.

Yovani Baez, James Rather yovani.baez@cbacre.org, Coalition for a Better Acre

The Role of Universities in Community Development and Empowerment: The Case of the Okavango Delta Management Plan

Dr. Lapologang Magole, Research fellow, University of Botswana, Okavango Research Center, lmagole@orc.ub.bw; Dr. Rachel DeMotts, Research fellow, University of Botswana, Okavango Research Center, rdemotts@orc.ub.bw

Using Community-University Partnerships to Stop Discrimination by Local Government Against minority Firms

Ralph Bangs, PhD, Associate Director, Center on Race and Social Problems,  University of Pittsburgh, Rbangs+@pitt.edu; Audrey Murrell, PhD, Associate Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh

Community/University Partnerships: the view from both sides of the fence

Ezra Haber Glenn, Director of Community Development Lawrence, MA, eglenn@public-planning.org

Community-University Partnerships: Helping Small Towns With Strategic Marketing

Dr. Janet Cherrington, Minnesota State University, Mankato, janet.cherrington@mnsu.edu

What’s Art Got to do With It?

Ronnie Campbell, Patty Coffey, Heather Derby, Linda Doung, Toni-Marie Henry, Marc Horne, Andrew Morel, Joel Morel, Vicki Watson, Lowell High School and University of Massachusetts Lowell, Patricia_Coffey@uml.edu

Artbotics: The Challenge of New Partnerships

Jerry Beck, Hyun Ju Kim, Fred Martin, Linda Silka, Diane Testa, and Holly Yanco, Revolving Museum and University of Massachusetts Lowell, Dr. Holly Yanco, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Holly@cs.uml.edu)

Rising to the top: A model for excellence in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Service Learning

Karrie A. Kalich, PhD, RD, Keene State College, kkalich@keene.edu    

Michael Hanrahan, MBA, Keene State College, mhanraha@keene.edu

Building Public Policy from the Ground Up: A Case Study in Community Partnerships

sedwards@NORTHSHORE.EDU

The Mill City’s Park and the Community’s College: Weaving the Cloth of Collaboration

Sheri Denk, Middlesex Community College, denks@middlesex.mass.edu; Susan Thomson, Cultural Anthropologist, MCC faculty; Becky Warren, LNHP  Supervisory Park Ranger

Learning to Get Along: Large Institutions, Institutional Cultures and the Art of Making Partnerships Work

Christoph Strobel, Department of History, Christoph_Strobel@uml.edu; Robert Forrant, Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Socio-Environmental Conflicts and Partnerships in the Defense and Protection of Environment and Health Rights: A Flower Plantation in Ecuador

Homero Harari and Raúl Harari, IFA – Institute for Development of Production and Work Environment, Quito, Ecuador, homeroharari@gmail.com

Community Rights to a Clean Environment: Who Defines? Who Decides? Who Acts? A Case Study of Industrial Hog Operations and Nuisance Law

Mansoureh Tajik, Dept. of Community Health and Sustainability, UMass Lowell Mansoureh_Tajik@uml.edu; Naeema Muhammad, Steve Wing, Gary Grant, Kendall Thu

The Devil is in the Details: Defining Civic Engagement

Dr. Margaret Brabant, Director, Center for Citizenship and Community,  Chair, Department of Political Science, Butler University, mbrabant@butler.edu

Dr. Donald Braid, Associate Director, Center for Citizenship and Community, Butler University, dbraid@butler.edu

Partnership and Pedagogy: Community Outreach and Student Engagement

James M. Dubinsky, Dept. of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, dubinsky@vt.edu

Partnering in a ‘Publish or Perish’ World: Strategies and Supports for Collaborative Theorizing

Charlotte Ryan, UMass Lowell, Charlotte_Ryan@uml.edu

George Chigas, Political Science, UMass Lowell, George_Chigas@uml.edu

Project COBWEB: A Partnership Between UMass Lowell and the Brazilian Immigrant Center to Improve Working Conditions of Brazilian Immigrants in Massachusetts

Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Fausto da Rocha, Carlos_Siqueira@uml.edu

The Community Classroom: Addressing public health issues in underserved communities through higher education service learning opportunities

Catherine A. Powers, EdD, CGS, LSW, powersoz@bu.edu Boston University School of Medicine

“When Bad Projects Happen to Good People: How to make every project a success, even when things don’t go well”

Patrick Hafford, Chair Service Learning, Wentworth Institute of Technology, hafford@wit.edu

CRP Was-Is-Will Be Here: Learning From And Providing For The Community And Regional Planning Program’s Course-Integrated Community-Based Project Work

Mark Tripak, U. of Texas Austin,

Two-way academic benefit as university students tutor teachers in low quality elementary schools

Gabriel Cámara, Convivencia Educativa, A.C., Mexico, gcamara@apc

Supporting Community Safety through University-Community Partnerships: Exploring Models of Engagement

James M. Frabutt, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Institute for Educational Initiatives,  jfrabutt@nd.edu

Scholarly Perspectives on Partnerships: Organization Theory

Mary-Ellen Boyle, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management Clark University, mboyle@clarku.edu

Achieving the Partnership Promise: From practice to Theory to Practice

Kim S. Uhlik, San Jose State University Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, kuhlik@casa.sjsu.edu

“Assessing partnerships: community-university collaborations for improving GIS teaching and learning”

Stephen Engle, Center for Community GIS; Cathleen McAnneny and Matt McCourt, University of Maine at Farmington.

Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Social Capital Measurement: Which Came First?

Janice Yee, JANICE.YEE@WARTBURG.EDU; Iana Stahov, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA

“Community Partnership in the Social Sciences”

Jessica Skolnikoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology; Robert Engvall, Ph.D. rengvall@rwu.edu, Associate Professor of Justice Studies; K.C. Ferrara, M.A., Coordinator of Feinstein Service Learning Program, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

Community-University Partnership through Extension Education: The Experience of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India

(Dr.M.Chandrasekharan Nair, Deputy Director, Centre for Extension Education, IGNOU,  New Delhi, India, Pin-110068. E-mail: nairmc@gmail.com

Strengthening town and gown collaborative opportunities: The Central California Public Health Partnership

Miguel A. Perez, Ph.D., CHES, Miguel Perez mperez@csufresno.edu  Associate Professor of Health Science and Director, Master of Public Health Program

Benjamin Cuellar, DSW, Dean, College of Health and Human Services.

The Sustainable Design and Development Workshop

Barbara Brown, Center for Sustainable Development  The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture  bebrown@mail.utexas.edu

Communal Ethical Frameworks Needed for Community/Environmental Health Research

Dianne Quigley, Principal Investigator, Syracuse University Research Ethics and Environmental Health (www.researchethics.org) diquigle@syr.edu

Centering the Center: Some New Ideas in a Center for Community Partnerships

Rob Rosethal, Professor of Sociology, and Director of Wesleyan’s Service-Learning Center

Sustainable Community-University Partnerships: an example of the “Promise Achieved”

D Christiani, R Wilson, J Yousuf, G Mostofa, A Elahi, S Afroz, S Mustakim, Q S Rahman, T Hasan, M Rahman, G M Uddin, Q Q Zamanß

Community-University Partnerships: How Do We Achieve the Promise?

Janice G. Rienerth, Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Social Work, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina  rienerthjg@appstate.edu

The Lawrence Public Schools Transformation Project: Cultivating University and School District Partnerships

Michaela Wyman-Colombo, James Nehring, Judith Boccia, Hector Torres, UMass Lowell,  Dr. Wilfredo Laboy, Superintendent of Schools Lawrence

Michaela_Colombo@uml.edu

A University/Community Partnership Geared to Strengthen Teen Programs in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Gretchen Latowsky, Lisa Abdallah (UML), and Milagro Grullon (Lawrence Mayors Health Task Force) Gretchen_Latowsky@uml.edu

Kathy Hunt, UMaine Margaret Chase Smith for Public Policy

Demonstrating Service Learning

Community-University Partnerships: Achieving the Promise in the Face of Changing Goals, Changing Funding Patterns, and Competing Priorities

David Turcotte, Linda Silka, Darcie Boyer, Laura Buxbaum, Paulette Renault-Caragianes, and Julie Villareal, David_Turcotte@uml.edu

“University in the Region: Policy Development and Indicators for New England”

William Mass, David Soule, and Jim Giddings, William_Mass@uml.edu

Civic Engagement and the ‘Research College’

Alan H. Bloomgarden