The 2024 Annual Collaboratory Summit will focus on the theme of strategically aligning Collaboratory data collection and use with key institutional goals and priorities. The Opening Session on Tuesday, September 17th from 2-3:30 EST, will feature panelists representing multiple Collaboratory campuses who will discuss how they are effectively and aspirationally aligning Collaboratory data to specific institutional initiatives. From alignment with campus strategic planning, promotion and tenure reform, deepening partnerships, and beyond, campuses will share how they integrate Collaboratory data into larger institutional initiatives.
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This 2-hour, interactive workshop is designed for administrators (faculty, staff, and student Collaboratory professionals) to explore and enhance their understanding of how Collaboratory implementation, data collection, and data use can align with and advance larger campus priorities and change initiatives. Administrators will learn innovative ways to leverage Collaboratory data with various stakeholders, develop new strategies for framing data collection and utilization, and share successful efforts to integrate Collaboratory into campus systems and processes.
Key Objectives:
Without a doubt, an intense focus on numbers and metrics pervades the current zeitgeist of higher education. When community-engaged researchers and their supporters meet, the question “What are our metrics?” often arises. While metrics are typically used to support market-driven goals and can oversimplify complex research – such as community engaged scholarship – they can also be valuable when used grounded in a humanizing and relational stance.
Dr. Jeremy Price, supported by the CUMU-Collaboratory Fellowship, has been developing a set of metrics that better capture the true essence of community-engaged research. These new metrics consider the full context, relationships, and efforts involved in this type of work. Drawing inspiration from Neil Postman’s constructive approach to change, Dr. Price will discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities that come with using these more human-centered metrics.
Join us to learn how these new metrics can help provide a platform for project evaluation and communicate the important nuances of community-engaged research to a wide range of audiences, including funders, administrators, colleagues, and communities.
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