Community Engagement News

Posted On : June 07, 2021

June 7, 2021

IN THIS ISSUE

Barry to Participate in National Institute Focused on Campus Centers Promoting Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Twenty-two Community Partners Have Won Barry’s Community Partnership Award
CCSI Offers Variety of Community Engagement Resources to Campus and Community

Barry To Participate In National Institute Focused On Campus Centers Promoting Truth, Racial Healing, And Transformation

Anti-Racism and Equity Coalition Members Will Represent University

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has selected Barry University to participate in the 2021 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers.

A five-member team drawn from Barry’s Anti-Racism and Equity Coalition will represent the university at the Institute, which will be held virtually on June 22–25.

The Coalition is a group of “dedicated Barry University faculty, staff, and student representatives working to achieve an anti-racist, equitable, and inclusive community.” According to information at its website, the Coalition aspires “to create an educational community that honors diversity, is free from racism, and actively engages in building a better world through learning, teaching, research, and self-reflection.”

“AAC&U is thrilled to partner with colleges and universities of all types and sizes across the country to advance the TRHT effort within higher education,” said Lynn Pasquerella, the association’s president. “We look forward to the opportunity to learn with and from the participants in the 2021 Institute and to support their efforts to promote racial equity and healing on their campuses and in their communities.”

Hosted by individual colleges and universities, and in partnership with AAC&U, TRHT Campus Centers pursue the shared goal of “preparing the next generation of leaders and thinkers to break down racial hierarchies and to dismantle the belief in a hierarchy of human value.” Each center implements its own “visionary action plan,” based on the TRHT framework, to promote racial healing through campus–community engagement.

A five-member team drawn from Barry’s Anti-Racism and Equity Coalition will represent the university at the four-day Institute this month.

The four-day Institute on TRHT Campus Centers is designed to support the ongoing work of existing centers and to provide an introduction to the TRHT effort for institutions interested in hosting a new campus center. The Institute curriculum is focused on developing and refining transformative action plans to advance the five components of the TRHT framework: narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy.

“Together,” AAC&U noted, “these five areas encompass the individual, communal, and systemic structures that perpetuate arbitrary divisions based on race.”

Barry is one of 78 higher education institutions invited to this year’s Institute.

Twenty-Two Community Partners Have Won Barry’s Community Partnership Award

The first Community Partnership Award plaque was presented to Feeding South Florida in March 2014. Gang Alternative, The Collaborative Family Law Group of Central Florida, and the League of Women Voters of Florida have also won the award.

During the first 10 years of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), 22 community partners won the community engagement award in the Community Partnership category. The first winners received the award in March 2014.

Feeding South Florida, Miami Edison Senior High School, and Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church (now Mount Tabor Baptist Church) won the Community Partnership Award for the inaugural year. Bread for the World is the most recent winner.

The Community Partnership Award is presented in recognition of exemplary partnerships between university and community constituencies that produce measurable improvements in people’s lives while enhancing higher education. Special consideration is given to partnerships that aim to achieve the systems and policy changes needed to address the root causes of social, economic, health, and environmental disparities in the community.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD WINNERS OVER THE YEARS
2021	• Bread for the World
2020	• New Florida Majority • PACT: People Acting for Community Together
2019	• Haitian Youth and Community Center of Florida, Inc. • Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office
2018	• Historic Virginia Key Beach Park • MCCJ • Women’s Breast and Heart Initiative
2017	• Gang Alternative • Miami Beach Community Church • Urban GreenWorks • William H. Turner Technical Arts High School
2016	• Church World Service • Coalition of Immokalee Workers & Student/Farmworker Alliance • The Collaborative Family Law Group of Central Florida • Special Olympics Florida
2015	• League of Women Voters of Florida • Miami Children’s Initiative • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Partnership
2014	• Feeding South Florida • Miami Edison Senior High School • Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church

Community Partnership is one of seven categories of community engagement awards at Barry. The CCSI, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year, hosts the annual awards ceremony.

Ccsi Offers Variety Of Community Engagement Resources To Campus And Community

Community engagement books in the CCSI Library include a set on service-learning.

The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has assembled a variety of community engagement resources, which are available to both Barry campuses and community partners. The resources include literature—books and journal articles—on various community engagement topics.

A collection of books on service-learning is available in the CCSI library. Authors of those books include Robert G. Bringle; Susan Cipolle; Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.; Barbara Jacoby; and Edward Zlotkowski.

In addition, a series of 15 monographs on Service-Learning in the Disciplines is available in the library. Each monograph is focused on why and how service-learning can be implemented within a particular discipline.

Dr. Heather Johnson Desiral, the CCSI-based experiential learning project assistant, has selected a few journal articles—a baker’s dozen—each of which she considers “a good read” (see below).

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TOPICS

“Advocacy Through Social Media: Exploring Student Engagement in Addressing Social Issues” (Bowen et al., 2017)
“Assessing the Impact of a Short-Term Service-Learning Clinical Experience on the Development of Professional Behaviors of Student Physical Therapists: A Pilot Study” (Anderson et al., 2014)
“Developing Curiosity in Science With Service” (Arangala, 2013)
“Developing Policy and Management Leaders: Eight Social Work Policy Fellows Share Their Experiences, Case Studies, and Recommendations for Leadership Development” (Bishop et al., 2018)
“Dispositions for Critical Social Justice Teaching and Learning” (Bondy et al., 2017)
“Effects of Service Learning on Concept Learning About Small Group Communication” (Yook, 2018)
“Engaging the Graduate Student in Learning Through Service-Learning: A Case Study” (Velten, 2016)
“Exploration of University Faculty Perceptions and Experiences of Service-Learning as Engaged Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” (Arellano & Jones, 2018)
“Feminist Interruptions: Creating Care-ful and Collaborative Community-Based Research With Students” (Concannon et al., 2014)
“Food Insecurity and an Urban American Elementary School: Development of a Community Based Research and Service-Learning Partnership” (Behrman et al., 2014)
“Holocaust Knowledge and Holocaust Education Experiences Predict Citizenship Values Among US Adults” (Starratt et al., 2017)
“The Role of Service-Learning on the Retention of First-Year Students to Second Year” (Bringle et al., 2010)
“The Unrecognized Co-educator in Academic Service-Learning: Community Partners’ Perspectives on College Students Serving Diverse Client Populations” (Darby et al., 2016)

All community engagement (including service-learning) books may be checked out for brief periods. Journal articles are distributed via email upon request.

For further information, contact Johnson Desiral at qep@barry.edu or service@barry.edu.

SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC PLAN: The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has successfully implemented its strategic plan for 2016–2021. All six goals of the plan have been achieved. Some of the specific outcomes will be highlighted in next week’s issue of Community Engagement News.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FACT SHEETS: The CCSI has assembled a variety of community engagement resources, which are available to both Barry campuses and community partners. Among the resources are fact sheets on various community engagement topics, which will be listed in this newsletter next week.