Ashley Greene, Brown University
Amanda Healy, University of Michigan
Elena Vasquez, Swearer Center at Brown University
Campus-community matchmaking is a strategy for facilitating community-driven engagement between a higher education institution and community-based stakeholders. Matchmaking provides a centralized entry point for community stakeholders to share their needs and priorities and allows for coordinated and strategic deployment of institutional resources in response to community-identified priorities. A centralized matchmaking infrastructure also allows the institution to better understand and quantify its community impact. This session invites higher education professionals who are interested in and/or actively practicing university-community matchmaking to connect and discuss this approach. Representatives from Brown and University of Michigan will talk about their experience developing matchmaking processes and facilitate a conversation about how matchmaking does or could work at session participants’ institutions.