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GCI Working Paper Series - University-Community Partnerships
Engaged Scholarship
at the University
Ann Feldman
Associate Professor, Department of English
Director of First Year
Writing Program
University of Illinois at Chicago
February 2007
GCP-07-04
The complex relationship between the university and the city provides
the context for this chapter, which explores not only the changing nature
of scholarship in the metropolitan research university, but how its
changing intellectual climate should, in turn, change our conception
of writing instruction for students who attend college in the city.
It is argued that engaged research -- participatory, reciprocal research
-- depends on an awareness of research as a discursive practice; that
is, on how language and rhetoric are used to shape emerging knowledge.
When both faculty members and students focus on engagement, their relationship
to the city is enhanced, while also enhancing undergraduate education
and, in particular, writing instruction.
The Chicago Response to Urban
Problems: Building University/Community Collaborations
Loomis Mayfield, Maureen Hellwig, & Brian Banks
April 1998
GCP-98-5
Modern university/community relationships are sometimes marked by division
and hostility. Key problems in the relationship include the assumed
objectivity of the academy; the real estate interests of universities;
and the alliance of real estate interests and political figures in opposition
to community concerns. The history and description of these relationships
in Chicago indicates there are other historical trends which have led
to fruitful partnerships, including: the influence of the settlement
house movement; the strength and diversity of community groups; change
and diversity in the university; and the influence of the civil rights
movement. This article uses the examples of the Neighborhoods Initiative
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Policy Research Action
Group, a consortium of four universities Loyola, DePaul, Chicago State
University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and community
partners, to show how strong, viable collaborations can occur.
Esperanza Familiar: Partnership
in the Settlement House Tradition
Paper originally prepared for presentation at the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s conference on Community
Outreach Partnership Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, September
25, 1998.
Richard Kordesh
December 1998
GCP-98-4
This paper uses a network analysis to study the emergence of a community-university
partnership in Chicago’s Pilsen community. It tracks the creation
of Esperanza Familiar, a joint product of the Resurrection Project,
a community development corporation in Pilsen and the Jane Addams College
of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. The partnership creates
and disseminates knowledge to such diverse beneficiaries as faculty,
graduate students, staff of the Resurrection Project and families in
the neighborhood. This learning is reminiscent of the education-based
approaches to community empowerment that were spawned by Jane Addams’
Hull-House in Chicago in the early twentieth century.
Long-Term Collaborations:
Building
Relationships and Achieving Results in the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Wim Wiewel & Ismael Guerrero
January 1998
GCP-98-1
This article analyzes the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative as a successful
cross-sector collaboration of a university with other organizations
that jointly addresses societal problems. The analysis qualitatively
identifies the critical factors that have been key elements in creating
a successful partnership.
Goal Achievement, Relationship Building, and Incrementalism:
The Challenges
of University-Community Partnerships
Wim Wiewel & Michael Lieber
January 1998
GCP-97-12
A four-step planning process describes the fluid planning model involved
in university-community partnerships. This planning model differs from
the rational planning model because the process is founded on the collaboration
of partners working together to achieve some goal. In this way, relationships
are built and goals are achieved. University of Illinois at Chicago
Neighborhoods Initiative is used to illustrate the relationship-oriented
planning process.
University Involvement in
the Community: Developing a Partnership Model
Wim Wiewel & David Broski
January 1997
GCP-97-3
How can a university be useful to its community in a direct and applied
way? This discourse uses the specific approach taken by the University
of Illinois at Chicago to illuminate some of the issues that universities
have to confront in developing a partnership model of university-community
involvement.
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