Developing Understandings of Collaborative Partnerships Between University and Community

University faculty define collaborative partnerships with the community and examine how collaborative partnerships engender community-based research and the learning process of students in the College of Public Service. Considerations include how students are acculturated, specific benefits to learning, unanticipated benefits, and the unexpected challenges of collaborative partnerships between a university and a community. Key Take Away Points Collaborative partnerships defined How collaborative partnerships engender community-based research How collaborative partnerships engender learning How students can be acculturated to collaborative partnership Unanticipated benefits of collaborative partnerships between university and community Unexpected challenges of collaborative partnerships between university and community