Collaboratory Administrator Panel: Community Engagement Data to Fuel Campus and Community Success

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

Panelists included:

• Dr. Elaine Ward, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Special Assistant to the President for Civic and Community Engagement, Merrimack College
• Stacy Bluth, Collaboratory Program Manager, Office of Outreach & Engagement, North Carolina State University
• Kelli Huth, former Director, Center for Civic Engagement, Binghamton University

Recorded October 20, 2022