Centering Justice in Community Engagement Activities

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Collaboratory is thrilled to invite our partners at Break Away to facilitate this workshop for all faculty, staff, students, and community partners at Collaboratory institutions! Sparked by the racial uprisings of 2020 and informed by the often-harmful history of service programming in the United States, this workshop highlights the importance of centering justice within community engagement programming. Workshop participants will develop strategies for working toward more positive community impacts – including centering reciprocity and working to increase organizational capacity, while simultaneously cultivating active anti-racist organizational praxes. …

Carnegie Community of Practice: Section 8 of the Application

CarnegieOpen to the Public

Collaboratory is hosting and facilitating a national community of practice focused on leveraging the Elective Classification framework as an opportunity to recruit allies and generate buy-in for community engagement on your campus, and to build a comprehensive portrait of your engagement. Each month we will address a new section of the application, sequentially following the framework. …

Collaboratory Summit Opening Session: The Engagement Data Imperative – From Access to Action

Open to the Public

Higher education has reached a tipping point – while data access used to be the primary barrier to data-informed decision making, now many institutions struggle to translate all that data into meaningful insights and ultimately, action. As engagement administrators, we have a responsibility not just to our institutions, but to our surrounding communities to use data for actionable change. This panel includes leaders of national organizations and initiatives for engagement, and will discuss the imperative of data literacy and use in the context of community engagement data. …

Collaboratory Summit: Administrator Working Session #1 (Big Picture Planning)

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Join fellow Collaboratory Administrators for a 2-hour working session that is designed to assist institutional teams identify strategies for implementation and data use that they can put into motion on their own campuses. The working session will be divided into individual work time, break out groups, and large-group sharing. Working session #1 will be focused on big-picture goals and strategic planning. …

Collaboratory Summit: Administrator Working Session #2 (Setting the Plan in Motion)

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Join fellow Collaboratory Administrators for a 2-hour working session that is designed to assist institutional teams identify strategies for implementation and data use that they can put into motion on their own campuses. The working session will be divided into individual work time, break out groups, and large-group sharing. Working session #2 will be focused on drafting concrete action plans Administrators can implement throughout the remainder of the academic year. …

Collaboratory Summit Closing Session: Administrator Panel

Open to the Public

Join the 2022 Collaboratory Summit closing session to hear from a panel of Collaboratory Administrators who are implementing and strategically leveraging Collaboratory at their institutions. The panel will discuss the importance of community engagement data to fuel campus and community success and how their institutions are (1) leveraging Collaboratory as a tool to assist with the institutionalization of community engagement on their campuses, (2) strategically aligning data collection and disseminating efforts to generate buy-in from internal and external stakeholders, and (3) positioning and sharing Collaboratory data to move the needle on issues of key importance to their campuses and communities. …

Collaboratory Social Hour

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The Collaboratory Social Hour is an opportunity for Collaboratory colleagues to come together and chat casually. Bring a cup of coffee or a cocktail to this virtual social hour and take a step back from the day-to-day busyness of our work. Feel free to discuss our shared work from community engagement topics to Collaboratory use cases, ask questions of others, and continue to build relationships throughout this network. …

Carnegie Community of Practice: Section 9 of the Application

CarnegieOpen to the Public

Collaboratory is hosting and facilitating a national community of practice focused on leveraging the Elective Classification framework as an opportunity to recruit allies and generate buy-in for community engagement on your campus, and to build a comprehensive portrait of your engagement. Each month we will address a new section of the application, sequentially following the framework. …

Bridging and Visualizing Institutional K-12 Engagement Data with Collaboratory

Open to the Public

Universities’ community outreach in the K-12 sector contributes to a state’s economic and educational development, ensuring educational quality and better preparing K-12 students to be competitive in the ever-evolving job market. This webinar will highlight how a team at Indiana University (IU) is assessing K-12 outreach impact with Collaboratory data. The team will discuss how they have created and leveraged interactive visualizations of Collaboratory data through Power BI, Kumu, and GIS to assess and analyze IU’s K-12 engagement across the state of Indiana. …

Collaboratory Scholars

Open to the Public

Collaboratory Scholars provides students a network beyond their campus and a space to explore new ways of thinking about higher education community engagement. Together we foster the next generation of community-engaged scholars, professionals, and alumni who have a greater understanding of and appreciation for the public mission of higher education and its role within society. …

November Coffee Break

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For the November Coffee Break, we welcome UNC-Greensboro’s Emily Janke to share some Collaboratory stories in more advanced years of using this tool. Emily Janke serves as the Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, as well as an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies. Forefronting the work of the Public Good and institutional reciprocal community engagement, she is a renowned scholar in the field. This Coffee Break will focus on the favorite Collaboratory topic: Data Use. Building on Emily’s expertise as a Collaboratory co-founder, this will be a dialogue exchanging different perspectives, ideas, and use cases surrounding data. …

Carnegie Community of Practice: Section 10 of the Application

CarnegieOpen to the Public

Collaboratory is hosting and facilitating a national community of practice focused on leveraging the Elective Classification framework as an opportunity to recruit allies and generate buy-in for community engagement on your campus, and to build a comprehensive portrait of your engagement. Each month we will address a new section of the application, sequentially following the framework. …