Full Description
This volume offers replicable approaches for centering equity as a core value in community-campus relationships.
Through interrogation of contemporary practice, chapter authors examine the many ways in which equity is deliberately centered in community relationships, practices, research, and pedagogies, thereby accounting for how equity is defined, perceived, and shaped across diverse cultures, perspectives, and institutions. With a focus on relationship-building as a pathway to meaningful community engagement, contributors reflect on successes, obstacles, and moments of vulnerability, describing how relationships were initiated and lessons learned to ensure equitable values were centered and upheld. The text concludes with a meaningful discussion on the implications of these practices and the future of this work: equity continues to be a foundational element of any community-campus partnership.
This book will be an essential resource for academics and communities alike, particularly community partners, graduate students, scholars, and faculty who seek to center equity within their community-engaged work.
Contents
Introduction: The Contemporary Landscape of Equity with Higher Education; PART I Introduction: Frameworks of Equitable Community Engagement 1 Sites of Resistance, Sites of Healing: Equitable Community Partnerships Through Local Resident Engagement; 2 Putting the 6 Rs into Practice: Building an Equitable Collaboration between Indigenous Communities and a Western University; 3 Research Engagement Readiness: Preparing Community and Academic Partners for Bidirectional Engagement and Equitable Partnership; PART II Centering Equity through Authentic Relationships and Co-Design Approaches 4 Nurturing the Vā in Community-Campus Partnerships with the Sāmoan Community in Oceanside, CA; 5 Building Equity through Partnership: Developing a Rural Health Equity Resource Hub for Gender-Based Violence Survivors in Rural Western Kansas; 6 Literacy as a Weapon: Empowering Black Youth through Equitable Community Engagement; 7 Equitable Community Engagement: A Case Study on Blending Social Impact and Social Justice Perspectives in Service-Learning Contexts; PART III Introduction: Centering Equity through Authentic Relationships and Co-design Approaches 8 Toward Epistemic and Environmental Equity in Campus/Community Relationships; 9 Solutions Not Studies: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Co-produced Arctic Research; 10 Detroit's Climate Justice Journey: Centering Community Empowerment in University Partnerships; 11 Bridging Cultures: Equitable Academic-Community Engagement in West Philadelphia; PART IV Introduction: Lessons Learned through Tensions and Obstacles 12 Dancing Toward Equity: Decolonizing Land Grant Engagement with Indigenous Communities; 13 Equity and Belonging in Community Archiving: The Arkansas Chinese Heritage Project; 14 Navigating Power, Equity, and Co-creation in a Community-University Partnership: Critical Reflections on the Long-term Relationship between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University; 15 From Students to Partners: Negotiating Equity in Community Engagement Projects between First-year College Students and Early-career Professional Community Partners; PART V Introduction: The Institutionalization of Equity as a Pathway to Sustainability 16 Field Experience in a Third Space: Centering Equity and the Voices of Community-based Partners in an Introductory Field Experience for Novice Teacher Candidates; 17 Grounded in Community: Transformative Relationships in an Evolving Campus-Community Partnership for Equity; 18 Building an Equitable Community-Campus Relationship through Exploring the Great Things Together: The Experience of Collaborative Badlands USR in Taiwan; 19 Conclusion: A Path Forward Together
