Office of Community Engagement Staff Member Co-Authors Article Published in ‘Metropolitan Universities’
Lisa Rawlings, MBA, director of UMB Workforce Initiatives and staff member in the Office of Community Engagement, is among the co-authors of “Toward a Research and Practice Agenda for Evaluation in Community-Campus Partnerships,” which was published in the most recent issue of Metropolitan Universities.
The research identifies six promising directions for research and practice on evaluation of community-university partnerships:
- Evaluating systemic racism
- Community-driven evaluation
- Community impact and benefit
- Evaluating relationships,
- Alignment of stakeholders
- Blended approaches
The findings stem from a collaboration of participants in the Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities Community Evaluation Huddle and recognizes the growing need to document the positive impacts of these community-campus partnerships.
The article can be found here: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/article/view/26786/25027
Kuttner, P.J., Rawlings, L., & Washington, M.R. (2023). Toward a Research and Practice Agenda for Evaluation in Community-Campus Partnerships. Metropolitan Universities, 34(4), 82-88. DOI: 10.18060/26786