ISSUE DEVELOPING NETWORKS AND PARTNERSHIPS EDUCATION

ISSUE 2: DEVELOPING NETWORKS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Approaching complex issues role higher education society requires broad mix partners create strategies actions encompass multiple valued perspectives experiences.

Broad partnerships strengthen relationship higher education society involves working strategically higher education achieve mutual goals behalf public good.

Goal: Create broad dispersed communication systems processes.

Action Items:

Create information resource network higher education associations Create information processes announce relevant conferences, recruit presenters encourage presentations national conferences Develop opportunities information sharing learning types postsecondary institutions (e.g. research-centered communities).

Goal: Create support strategic alliances diverse collaborations.

Action Items: Establish support on-going partnerships collaborations higher education associations external community (e.g. civic organizations, legislators, community members) Explore public employ role arts advancing higher education public good Promote collaboration higher education address access, retention, graduation concerns

ISSUE 3: INSTILLING AND REINFORCING THE VALUE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY INTO THE CULTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Education attend implicit explicit consequences work, reexamine "what counts" integrate research, teaching service public good core working institution.

Goal: Emphasize civic skills leadership development curriculum co-curriculum.

Action Items: Develop implement curriculum colleges universities promote civic engagement students Create co-curricular student community programs leadership civic engagement development Develop learning opportunities, classroom, promote liberty, democratic responsibility, social justice knowledge economic system Develop student leadership service opportunities focus ethical behavior Teach graduate students organizing networking skills, encourage student leadership Diversity education

Goal: Foster deeper commitment public good.

Action Items: Work faculty communication skills languages describe engagement public, educate faculty common good Identify models promotion tenure standards Identify models faculty development

Goal: Identify, recognize, support engaged scholarship.

Action Items: Identify disseminate models exemplars scholarship public good Encourage participation community research Help institutions call attention exemplary outreach. Establish capacity building effort institutions

Goal: Bring graduate education alignment civic mission.

Action Items: Work disciplinary associations hold dialogues ways graduate student training incorporate public engagement, involvement service Promote "civic engagement" academic professional disciplines disciplines' definition "civic engagement" Incorporate concept higher education public good current graduate education reform efforts

ISSUE 4: EMBEDDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

Promoting public benefits higher education requires system efforts institutions intentionally embed values civic engagement social responsibility governance practices, policy decisions, educational processes.

Goal: Align governing structures administrative strategies.

Action Items: Develop ways improve student community involvement governance decision making process educational institutions. Identify promote ways institutions improve involvement public practice democracy institution. Establish public good/civic engagement units orchestrate work institutions.

Goal: Publicly recognize support valuable engagement work.

ISSUE DEVELOPING NETWORKS AND PARTNERSHIPS EDUCATION 2015-05-12T12:30:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown