Section 4: Quality of Community Engagement Relationships and Academic Partnerships
  1. Describe at least five but no more than eight representative examples of academic-community partnerships (i.e., institutional, centers, departmental, and faculty/staff) that are connected to the academic core of the campus—which includes teaching, learning, and research, and illustrate both the breadth and depth of community engagement during the most recent academic year.

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    • Boykin Center Health Initiative
    • BraveHeart Center for Place and Purpose
    • Campus Kitchen
    • GEAR UP Alabama
    • O Grows
    • Rural Health Initiative
    • Rural Studio
  2. In comparing the partnership responses from your previous classification with the responses above, please reflect on what has changed in the quality, quantity, and impact of your academic community partnership activity.
  3. Describe specific systematic actions, strategies, and assessments to ensure the institution, academic units (colleges, departments), and faculty and staff are building partnerships that center mutual benefit, reciprocity, and asset-based partnerships.
  4. What actions have you taken since the last classification to deepen and improve partnership practices and relationships—in initiating, sustaining, and assessing partnerships? How did these practices encourage authentic collaboration and reciprocity with community partners?
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