Office of Metropolitan Impact
2021 Engagement Series:
Faculty Engagement and Resources
Carnegie Engaged Campus Classification
What is Community Engagement?
“…collaboration between institutions of higher education and larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in context of partnership and reciprocity”
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching
What is engaged scholarship?
Related Activities and Investments
Most important lessons learned
Our Charge in 2021 & Beyond?
A Bit About Boundary Spanners
Types of Outreach & Community Engagement
Weerts & Sandmann Quadrant Model
Boundary Spanning
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OMI’s Professional Identity
(Per the Outreach and Engagement Professionals Network)
Naming the Work that OMI Does
(2007 NOSC, Sandmann & Weerts workshop)
Who are OMI Staff?
Why are Boundary Spanning Roles Important to the Academia?
Roles, Functions & Status
Spanning multiple boundaries:
University Community
Faculty Staff
Content expertise Engagement expertise
Research Practice
Individual Collective
Positional power Functional power
Quantitative Qualitative
Positivism Constructivism
Roles, Functions & Status
Examples of boundary-spanning roles:�
Shared Skills & Values
The 10 “–ates”:
From Network to System of Influence: Communities of Practice
Tracy’s Scholarship: An Alternative Administrative Practice - Typology
grounds of knowledge
stance
Examples of How OMI Has Supported Faculty
Tracy’s Scholarship: An Alternative Administrative Practice Typology – Dim. 1
MASCULINE - BUSINESS METAPHOR |
FEMININE - HOME METAPHOR |
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Ontology = the nature of being
Tracy’s Scholarship: An Alternative Administrative Practice Typology – Dim. 2
MASCULINE – BUSINESS METAPHOR |
FEMININE - HOME METAPHOR |
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Epistemology = the theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge
Tracy’s Scholarship: An Alternative Administrative Practice Typology – Dim. 3
MASCULINE - BUSINESS METAPHOR |
FEMININE - HOME METAPHOR |
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Social Theory = How we understand the development and maintenance of the social world
Tracy’s Scholarship: An Alternative Administrative Practice Typology – Dim. 4
MASCULINE – BUSINESS METAPHOR |
FEMININE - HOME METAPHOR |
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Ethical Framework
Tracy’s Scholarship: Applied to �Community Engagement
Masculine/Business Metaphor as Enacted in a Traditional University Community Engagement Context | Feminine/Home Metaphor as Enacted in a Progressive University Community Engagement Context |
Tracy’s Scholarship: Applied to �Community Engagement – Dim. 1
Traditional Community Engagement | Progressive Community Engagement |
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Ontology = the nature of being
Tracy’s Scholarship: Applied to �Community Engagement – Dim. 2
Traditional Community Engagement | Progressive Community Engagement |
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Epistemology = the theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge
Tracy’s Scholarship: Applied to �Community Engagement – Dim. 3
Traditional Community Engagement | Progressive Community Engagement |
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Social Theory = How we understand the development
and maintenance of the social world
Tracy’s Scholarship: Applied to �Community Engagement – Dim. 4
Ethical Framework
Traditional Community Engagement | Progressive Community Engagement |
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Conclusions
THE END
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