Examine how your university can help solve the complex problems of
your community Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC)
sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) have identified civic engagement and community
partnership as critical themes for higher education. This unique
book addresses past, present, and future models of
university-community partnerships, COPC programs, wide-ranging
social work partnerships that involve teaching, research, and
social change, and innovative methods in the processes of civic
engagement. The text recognizes the many professions, schools, and
higher education institutions that contribute to advancing civic
engagement through university-community partnerships. One important
contribution this book makes to the literature of civic engagement
is that it is the first publication that significantly highlights
partnership contributions from schools of social work, which are
rediscovering their community roots through these initiatives.
University-Community Partnerships: Universities in Civic Engagement
documents how universities are involved in creative individual,
faculty, and program partnerships that help link campus and
community-partnerships that are vital for teaching, research, and
practice. Academics and practitioners discuss outreach initiatives,
methods of engagement (with an emphasis on community organization),
service learning and other teaching/learning methods, research
models, participatory research, and high-engagement techniques used
in university-community partnerships. The book includes case
studies, historical studies, policy analysis, program evaluation,
and curriculum development. University-Community Partnerships:
Universities in Civic Engagement examines: the increasing civic
engagement of institutions of higher education civic engagement
projects involving urban nonprofit community-based organizations
and neighborhood associations the developmental stages of a COPC
partnership problems faced in evaluating COPC programs civic
engagement based on teaching and learning how pre-tenure faculty
can meet research, teaching, and service requirements through
university-community partnerships developing an MSW program
structured around a single concentration of community partnership
how class, race, and organizational differences are barriers to
equality in the civic engagement process University-Community
Partnerships: Universities in Civic Engagement is one of the few
available academic resources to address the importance of social
work involvement in COPC programs. Social work educators, students,
and practitioners, community organizers, urban planners, and anyone
working in community development will find it invaluable in proving
guidance for community problem solving, and creating opportunities
for faculty, students, and community residents to learn from one
another.
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