About this event
Navigating Dynamic Campus-Community Relationships, a new Campus Compact publication, offers answers to the question: How do institutions of higher education engage effectively when the communities with which they interface shift— demographically, culturally, or otherwise?
The editors of this new volume will offer insights into the inception of this project and the process of working with slates of multivocal authors to tell their diverse stories. They will discuss ways that community engagement boundary spanners address issues around gentrification, welcome new communities into their work, support evolving economic development, and gain clarity about community.
In offering models that adjust to ever-evolving landscapes of community engagement, the editors will underscore the ways that higher ed can boost public trust through innovative ways to meet its public purpose.
Who should attend?
This event is free and open to Campus Compact members and non-members. Community-engaged faculty, staff, students, community partners, government, and community relations professionals are encouraged to attend.
What does this mean? This virtual event is more informational with minimal interactivity. Feel free to have this webinar on in the background while you eat lunch or check email!
- Only facilitators and guest speakers will be seen on camera
- You can submit questions by typing them into the Zoom Q&A feature
- This event will focus on information sharing, presentations, or panel discussions
Meet The Editors
Suchitra V. Gururaj, Ph.D.
Suchitra V. Gururaj, Ph.D. is a practitioner-scholar of community engagement. She has served as assistant vice president for community engagement at The University of Texas at Austin for 15 years. Her research focuses on university-community partnerships and comparative social inclusion policies in higher education. She is a former Fulbright scholar.
Brianna Davis Johnson, Ph.D.
Brianna Davis Johnson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Dean at The Ohio State University Graduate School, leading mentoring, recruitment, and retention for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Her research and TEDx talk focus on fostering environments where people of all backgrounds can thrive. She is also civically active in her community.
Get the Book!
Navigating Dynamic Campus-Community Relationships explores how higher education institutions and their community partners adapt and reimagine engagement practices in response to shifting demographics. Utilizing the conceptual frameworks around anchor institutions and place-based community engagement, this volume explores the paradox of higher education as both rooted in place and also responsive to dynamic change. Featuring multivocal narratives from institutional and community members, it offers transformative insights and actionable strategies to help community members, administrators, instructors, researchers, and students foster agile, responsive partnerships.
Questions? Get in touch with us at events@compact.org