scholarly journals Developing the Student Anchor Engagement Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Johnson Kebea
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Community Benefit ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Metropolitan Universities ◽  
Democratic Engagement ◽  
Anchor Institution

Modern urban and metropolitan universities are increasingly obliged to recognize their role as anchor institutions. These same institutions of higher education (IHEs) also have a responsibility to educate students to be responsible and participatory citizens in society. An increasing number of IHEs recognize these distinct commitments as central to the public purpose of higher education. However, few intentionally involve students in anchor mission work. This misalignment denies students a rich opportunity for civic learning and democratic engagement. Furthermore, it prevents IHEs and their surrounding communities from realizing the benefits of harmonizing these two commitments. This mixed-methods research study resulted in the development of the Student Anchor Engagement Framework, a 36-item strategic framework designed to identify how IHEs can intentionally involve students in anchor strategy. The framework derives from The Democracy Collaborative’s Anchor Institution Community Benefit Dashboard. Expert participants ranked all items included in the framework as to their potential to influence student civic learning and democratic engagement. Implications of this research study include the potential for IHEs to consider, strategically, ways to align student civic learning with anchor institution practices for the advancement of both pursuits.

A Comparison of IHEs and Non-IHEs as Anchor Institutions and Lead Agents of Promise Neighborhoods Projects

2021 ◽  
pp. 001312452110497
Author(s):  
Whitney Impellizeri ◽  
Vera J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Promise Neighborhood ◽  
Anchor Institution

Place-based initiatives, such as the federal Promise Neighborhoods grant, attempt to coordinate interventions, supports, and services with a myriad of organizations to targeted communities. Although Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), inclusive of academic medical institutions, are among the most overall researched anchor institution, Non-Institutions of Higher Education (NIHEs) have led more Promise Neighborhood grants since the inception of the program in 2010. Therefore, this study compared the revitalization efforts proposed by IHEs ( n = 5) and NIHE ( n = 5) in their applications for Promise Neighborhoods grants awarded between 2016 and 2018. Although similarities existed within and across the applications from NIHEs and IHEs, namely focused on improving academics and health/wellness, the specific interventions, supports, and services proposed by each lead institution largely reflected the individual needs of the targeted communities. The findings from this study illustrate how IHEs and NIHEs are similarly positioned to effectuate change within their communities. Implementing place-based initiatives requires anchor institutions to allocate considerable time and resources in order to adapt to the current needs of the community in real time. Therefore, future lead agents of Promise Neighborhoods should seek to promote an environment that fosters on-going collaboration and mutual trust across and within multiple stakeholders, while also exploring sustainability efforts to extend gains made beyond the duration of the grant.

Building the foundations for academic success: learning from the experiences of part-time students in their first semester of study

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-161
Author(s):  
Allyson Goodchild ◽  
Cathal Butler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time

This article examines the findings from a mixed methods research study exploring part- time students' perceptions of their transition into higher education. Drawing on wider research in the field of transition and utilising Gale and Parker's (2014) conceptual framework as a means of viewing the transition process, the article identifies how one group of part-time undergraduates experienced the process of becoming an undergraduate. The results highlight the importance of offering a well-framed early learning experience for students, which enables them to learn the skills needed for early academic success and provides continued support as they progress in their own time towards recognition of themselves as undergraduates. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that transition is not time bound, and individual students will need individual approaches. This will require institutions to consider how the support they offer can be tailored to a student's specific needs.

scholarly journals The Emerging Role of Universities in Collective Impact Initiatives for Community Benefit

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Smith ◽  
Lynn Pelco ◽  
Alex Rooke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Higher Education Administrators ◽  
Community Benefit ◽  
Education Administrators ◽  
Anchor Institution

Universities are increasing their efforts to more clearly demonstrate their social value. This article illustrates how higher education administrators can incorporate collective impact partnerships in their community benefit strategies. The article explores two of the more familiar paradigms for community benefit—community engagement and anchor institution. Collective impact principles and practices are then presented. Finally, a case study provides a tangible example of how one university’s role in a collective impact initiative transitioned in response to the community. We end the article with ten takeaways and an invitation for higher education administrators to identify their own learning and action steps that can help shift focus from proving to improving their institution’s value to the community.

scholarly journals The Life, Work and Legacy of Ernest A. Lynton (1926–1998)

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Ward
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
Metropolitan Universities ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
Life Work

Learning about Ernest Lynton’s rich life has been interesting for me to uncover.  Where many of us only know Ernest through his writings, I have come to learn the origins of the motivations for his work and commitments to advancing the public purpose of higher education and the scholarship of engagement. The significance of the title of the first issue of Metropolitan Universities Journal in 1990, Identity and Culture, is not lost on me as I seek to understand more fully the life, lived experiences, and identity of Ernest A. Lynton that moved him to influence cultural shifts within higher education toward increased value and legitimatization of useful, publicly engaged work.  As a researcher, I am driven to understand our individual and collective motivations for our community engagement scholarly work.  What are our aspirations for this work and its broader impact in society?  Why do what we do and how can what we do influence the greater public good.  As a steward of change (Ward and Miller, 2106), I seek ways to use our individual and collective understandings to lift up and advance institutional commitments to civic and community engagement as we help our higher education institutions hold fast to and more fully realize their responsibilities to individuals and communities beyond our walls. 

Theory into practice:: Challenges and implications for information literacy teaching

IFLA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Deborah Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
Value Of Learning

This article is informed by a mixed-methods research study into librarians’ critical information literacy awareness and teaching practices in higher education institutions within British Columbia, Canada, and the literature related to critical pedagogical and literacy theory. I explore the perceived gap in librarian knowledge of theories that underpin their pedagogy, the value of learning about and applying theories to information literacy teaching, and strategies that can enable improved awareness and application of theory to librarians’ practices in higher education.

scholarly journals The Transformative Power of Anchor Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Sladek
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Community Benefit ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Anchor Institution ◽  
What Matters

Everyone knows by now that colleges and universities are “anchor institutions”: important place-based engines that play key roles in local economies. But the raw facts of size and place are just the beginning of the story; what matters is not just the fact that anchors have an impact on communities, but what kind of impact they have, and on what terms. It is one thing to be an anchor institution. It is another to consciously and intentionally adopt an anchor mission, leveraging all available institutional and operational resources for community benefit.

Planning and Conducting a Large-Scale Mixed Methods Research Study: Research Team Experiences and Recommendations

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-295
Author(s):  
Katrin Niglas ◽  
◽  
Meril Ümarik ◽  
Maarja Tinn ◽  
Ivor Goodson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Study Research

scholarly journals A mixed methods research study on the video‐based counselling method Marte Meo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Rohr ◽  
Sophia Nettersheim ◽  
Charles Deutsch ◽  
Kathrin Meiners
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Study
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