International Institute on Partnerships

May 23-25, 2011 | Portland State University

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Portland State University's Second International Institute on Partnerships: From Reciprocity to Collective Transformation: Achieving the Potential of Community-Campus Partnerships, will convene an international group of faculty, students, community partners, and administrators who are similarly interested in advancing the role of community-higher education partnerships in society.  The Institute will focus on the bedrock work of partnerships themselves - local, national, and international. The Institute program is directed to strengthening the capacity of both community and higher education constituents for participation in transformative partnerships.  The program is organized to empower attending participants to extend and enhance the foundations of higher education partnerships with contemporary understandings, research, and practices within a supportive national and international network.

Join community partners, faculty, administrators, and students interested in deepening their understandings and practices of community-higher education partnerships.  Through a blend of presentations from the field, plenaries and working sessions, we will explore strategies to address persistent challenges, analyze promising practices, and examine research to advance the study of partnerships.

2011 International Institute on Partnerships will utilize a variety of session formats to engage participants in a unique learning environment that brings together national and international leaders in partnership research and practices. We will engage in co-construction of professional development agendas for community partners and their campus partners, collectively de-construct long-term effective partnerships to enable participants to define principles of practice, and will utilize a study circle model to explore the unique elements of common community-campus partnership categories. We are committed to bringing a diverse group of practitioners together to help bring these program elements to life, and to learn from their authentic partnership practices and wisdom.  We are delighted to share the following sampling of this year's facilitators:

Maria Avila, Director of the Center for Community Based Learning at Occidental College
Patti Clayton, Consultant with PHC Ventures; Senior Scholar at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Amy Driscoll, Senior Scholar at Portland State University Partnership Initiative; Consulting Scholar with Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Visiting Scholar with New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)
Sherril B. Gelmon, Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Division of Public Administration at Portland State University's Mark O. Hatfield School of Government
Matthew Hartley, Associate Professor and Chair, Higher Education Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Katherine Lambert Pennington, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Memphis
Karen McGee, Steering Committee Member at the South Memphis Revitalization Action Project
Seth Pollack, Professor of Service Learning and Director of the Service Learning Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay
Kenneth M. Reardon, Professor in City and Regional Planning Department at the University of Memphis
Sarena Seifer, Executive Director at Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
Curtis Thomas, Deputy Executive Director at The Works Inc.

For more information about IIP 2011 Co-Sponsors, content, audience, outcomes, etc., please contact iip2011@pdx.edu.  To read IIP 2009 materials, please click here.

Student Scholarship Awards made available through generous support from the Lumina Foundation

IIP 2011 extends a special thanks to the following Co-Sponsors: