1st Edition
Leading Place-Based Community Engagement Initiatives in Higher Education Promising Practices and Lessons Learned
Chapter 1: The Promise of Place-Based Community Engagement
Kent Koth and Erica K. Yamamura
Chapter 2: Loyola University of Maryland: Fostering Community Development and Neighborhood Resilience in North Baltimore
Gia Grier and Adam Jackson
Chapter 3: Drexel University: Jobs Today and Jobs Tomorrow in West Philadelphia
Joanne Ferroni
Chapter 4: The University of Pittsburgh: The Power of Place... and Time in Hyper-Local Engagement
Keith Caldwell and Lina Dostilio
Chapter 5: Grinnell College: Collective Impact - Moving Campus and Community Forward
Monica Chavez-Silva
Chapter 6: The University Mississippi: Sustaining Place-Based Partnerships to Improve Quality of Life in Rural Communities
Laura Martin and Albert Nylander
Chapter 7: Southern Methodist University: Connecting Students to Dallas through Community-Engaged Residential Life
Dustin Grabsch and Audryanna Reed
Chapter 8: Seattle University: Practicing Cura Personalis through Place-Based Partnerships
Cecilia Morales, Becky McNamara, and LaKesha Kimbrough
Chapter 9: University of San Diego: A Journey Toward Placed-Based Epistemic Justice
Chris Nayve and John Loggins
Chapter 10: Lessons for Leaders
Kent Koth and Erica Yamamura
Biography
Kent Koth is the founding Executive Director of the Seattle University Sundborg Center for Community Engagement, USA.
Erica K. Yamamura is Executive Director of LEAD California, USA, a statewide organization that advances college civic and community engagement for the public good.
“Grounded, honest, and deeply resonant, this book brings together diverse examples and models that show how place-based engagement can reshape the relationship between campuses and the communities they call home. A valuable resource for leaders and practitioners seeking to strengthen communities, transform learning, and reimagine the role of institutions today.”
Bobbie Laur, Campus Compact President
“Leading Place-Based Community Engagement Initiatives offers a strategic analysis, a blueprint, and a contemplative approach to not only the work of service and justice, but to true, mutually beneficial connection with and for the communities’ institutions of higher learning call home. At a time when colleges and universities are struggling to show their relevance and importance to a skeptical society, this text is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to drive missionary work and ministry to all. Yamamura and Koth excelled in the follow up to the first text, Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education.”
Robert D. Kelly, President, University of Portland
“Leading Place-Based Community Engagement Initiatives reflects its focus—deeply rooted in place and focused on practice, the authors of each chapter share the specific history, methods and learning particular to their location and context. The result is a rich tapestry of stories and scholarship that not only reflect a diversity of places but also gives readers a wealth of approaches and lessons to draw from to deepen and inform their own efforts.”
Neeraja Aravamudan, Director, Edward Ginsburg Center Director and Publisher, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, University of Michigan
