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Community-Campus Partnership Research Project

California Campus Compact Focus Group/Dialogue with Community Partners

Learn and Serve America Higher Education (LSAHE) at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) provided funding for California Campus Compact to undertake a research project to explore community partner relationships in California.

Project Overview

California Campus Compact conducted this research in an effort to continually strengthen the field of community service and service-learning. We realized that there was much that could be learned from the community representatives that partner with our member institutions. We gathered information about partnerships directly from community representatives throughout the state. This information was collected and analyzed to form some promising practices (from the perspective of community representatives) on cultivating strong partnerships.

A summary of findings from this research is available in two forms:

Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships —
  Executive Summary ...... (View/Download) [1.34 MB]
  Final Report           ...... (View/Download) [1.77 MB]
  Community Partner Conversation Protocol ...... (View/Download) [52 KB]

Different Worlds and Common Ground: Community Partner Prespectives in Campus - Community Partnerships —      Michigan Journal Article Fall 2006 ...... (View/Download) [937 KB]

Permission to disseminate this article was granted by the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

Please Purchase the Journal from their website http://www.umich.edu/~mjcsl

If you have questions about this research project, please contact Dr. Elaine Ikeda, Executive Director of California Campus Compact at elaine@cacampuscompact.org or 415-338-3983.