Webinar: Academic partnerships K-16+ that help develop and sustain University-Assisted Community Schools – May 1

Posted by Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities on April 16, 2024

Discover lessons learned from academic partnerships that connect the university and K-12 curricula through projects that help to solve community-identified local problems.

This webinar will explore how presenters have developed and sustained mutually transformative, democratic partnerships between universities and local K-12 schools through University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS). Staff from Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships and faculty from Binghamton University will discuss lessons learned from academic partnerships that connect the university and K-12 curricula through projects that help to solve community-identified local problems, from environmental injustice to health and educational inequities. This is designed to simultaneously improve community wellbeing and advance research, teaching, and learning (K-16+). After a brief overview of UACS, presenters from two higher eds working with different communities (urban, suburban and rural) will share examples of community-engaged scholarship and teaching. There will be time for questions and discussion.

PRESENTERS: Cory Bowman, Rita A. Hodges, and Paulette Branson, University of Pennsylvania; Naorah Rimkunas, Binghamton University, SUNY

Date and Time: May 1, 2024, 3:00-3:45 PM

CUMU members register here.

This meeting is for CUMU members only. If you are a community partner of a CUMU member or otherwise need to provide context with your registration, please add those details to the “Questions and Comments” section.