Workshop Details:

Monday, February 15, 2021
Noon–1:30 p.m. EST

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About the Workshop:

Explore real-world models of participatory structures in Engaged Scholarship and learn how collaborative practices enhance university and public partners' capacities and foster social change.

To get the most from your experience in the workshop, we encourage you to explore the workshop resources below.

Workshop Resources:

Please review the Six Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice described in Wolff et al., 2017’s article, Collaborating for Equity and Justice: Moving Beyond Collective Impact.
Please see the Seven Tasks of Collaboration on page 12 of Strand et al., 2003’s article, Principles of Best Practice for Community-Based Research.
Review the notion of paradoxical tensions in community-university partnerships that are the subject of Bowers’ (2017) University-Community Partnership Models: Employing Organizational Management Theories of Paradox and Strategic Contradiction.

Workshop Agenda:

12:00 – 12:10 p.m.	Welcome and Introductions
12:10 – 12:35 p.m.	Project 1
12:35 – 1:00 p.m.	Project 2
1:00 – 1:25 p.m.	Project 3
1:25 – 1:30 p.m.	Resource Sharing and Wrap Up

Workshop Leaders

Emily M. Elliot, PhD
Professor, Department of Geology & Environmental Science
Director, Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education, & Outreach
with Megan Guy
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD
Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and Medical Director, Community and Population Health, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Edmund R. McCluskey Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh
with Jose Garth, Gordon Hodnett, Theresa Jenks and Art Terry –– and Jamil Bey, Val Chavis, Barbara Fuhrman, Judith Navratil, Lisa Ripper and Michael Silva
Alison Slinskey Legg, PhD
Co-Director, Broadening Equity in STEM Center
Principal Investigator, The STEM PUSH Network (a National Science Foundation INCLUDES Alliance)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences

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Relevant Competencies for Engaged Scholarship:

The ability to transfer skills to the community, thereby enhancing community capacity, and ability to share skills with other faculty
Understanding of the various contributors to community issues (economic, social, behavioral, political, environmental); developing skills commitment for fostering community and social change

Engaged Scholarship Development Initiative Facilitators

Dr. Michael Bridges
Director, Teaching Commons
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Dr. Lina Dostilio
Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement
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Dr. Alison Slinskey Legg
Co-Director, Broadening Equity in STEM Center
Principal Investigator, The STEM PUSH Network (a National Science Foundation INCLUDES Alliance)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences
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Relevant Competencies for Engaged Scholarship:

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