HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE A UT ENGAGEMENT SUPER HERO:

 

• You spin webs connecting UT resources with community needs

• You leap institutional barriers in a single bound

• You have special powers in facilitating diverse partnerships that often goes unrecognized

• You can decode “university-speak” and are fluent in “community voice”

• You are a community crusader and your alter ego is on the UT payroll

• You have saved the day – and repaired key relationships – on more than one occasion!

 

WE’RE SO MUCH  BETTER TOGETHER

 

COLLABORATE:  share information, resources and ideas

PARTICIPATE:  in networking and professional development activities

REDUCE: professional isolation, duplication of efforts & “entry-point confusion” for community partners

EXPAND: access, capacity, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness

 

DID YOU KNOW*:

 

Research shows that:

• Multiple boundary-spanning roles must work in harmony for university engagement to work effectively.

• Boundary spanners often do not have colleagues within their own unit engaged in similar work.

• Community partners evaluate the effectiveness of institutional engagement through their relationship with boundary spanners.

• Institutional commitment to outreach and engagement was associated with increased levels of state appropriations for public research universities during the 1990s.

 

(* From: University of Wisconsin Community Partnerships and Outreach (CPO)Staff¬ Network; http://www.med.wisc.edu/files/smph/docs/education/community_service/CPO_Poster.pdf

 

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Elizabeth Burman

Campus Coordinator of Outreach and Engagement

University of Tennessee

Office of Research

1534 White Avenue

Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1529

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phone: (865) 974-8363