Name
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Navigating Demographic Changes in Campus-Community Engagement
Date & Time
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Location Name
International 1
Focus Area
Authentic campus-community partnerships
Session Type
Author Talk
Description

Higher education institutions committed to forging meaningful relationships with the surrounding community bridge the campus and the community even as the cultures, demographics, and character of the community change. The purpose of this session is to explore the challenges of undertaking effective community-higher education engagement in locales that experience dynamic changes in population or demographics and to highlight the lived experience of institutional and community members and students as they experience these changes. We will feature campus and community partner authors who have contributed to our volume on navigating campus-community relationships through community change to tell their stories. In a facilitated conversation, we will all consider best practices within their contexts and future strategies for meeting constant change.