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SUSAN B. HARDENUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHARLOTTE
KATHERINE A. LOVINGUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
STEPHEN MYERSMARK MCCANNHARMONY COX
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
The ESC Outreach and Engagement Staff Workshop "On the Road" at THE
Ohio State UniversityOctober 8, 2013
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
Setting the Context with a Question
What is going on your campus around professional development for O & E? (in particular O & E staff?)
Theoretical FrameworkUnique Aspects of Staff O&E Roles
Staff employees are critical to the engagement mission in higher education as engagement initiatives at research universities are primarily executed by engagement staff (Weerts & Sandmann, 2008).
Engagement staff are profiled as “boundary-spanners,” as they
responsible for the interacting with partners outside of the institution and “community-based problem solvers,” implying that the skills characterizing the work of engagement staff are largely technical and hands on, managing the daily tasks involved with advancing the partnership (Weerts & Sandman, 2008, 2010).
Engagement staffs also play important roles internally within their campus engagement efforts (Kiyama, Lee, & Rhoades, 2012).
Weerts & Sandmann quadrant model
Six Disconnects in University-Community Engagement
1) Professional education (content focus)
2) Service-learning and engaged pedagogies (student focus)
3) Institution outreach & community engagement (non-student focus)
4) Research & scholarship (faculty focus)
5) Diversity & inclusivity (internal focus)
6) Extension (external focus)
An emerging professional identity
1)Deserving of support, recognition & customized professional development
2)Similar roles, functions & status in the university structure
3)Shared skills and values
4)Common challenges and strengths
ESC Emerges as a Place for PD
1)The emergence of a professional identity NOSC 2007 Formation of the Community Partnerships and Outreach (CPO) Staff
Network at UW-Madison (2008) Organizing meeting at NOSC 2009
2)The creation of professional development opportunities Establishing a preconference at NOSC/Engagement Scholarship
Consortium conference (Outreach & Engagement Staff Workshop) Pilot Staff Workshop in 2010 (11) Official preconference in 2011 (30), then 50 in 2012 75 participants in 2013
3)The formation of a national community of practice Spoke Network listserv OESW “On the Road”
OSU Here We Come!
• Idea of Ben Lewis from OSU (OESW 2012 participant)
• Stephen Myers ESC Campus Champion at OSU embraced
• Mark McCann organized• Harmony Cox OSU participant in
the on-campus workshop
• May 10, 2013• 8:30 – 4:15 p.m.• 40 in attendance
Outcomes
On evaluations (27 responses) 100% of those who responded found the workshop valuable. 100% of those who responded agreed that the workshop
connected people with each other for support and learning. 85% of those who responded agreed that the workshop
supported their professional identity.
On Strategic Planning at OSU for O&ENext Steps at OSU