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Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Utilizing Diverse Sources of Community Data to Prioritize Outcomes in a Collective Impact Partnership," presented by Jennifer Lucarelli and Charita Little from Oakland University, on Friday, December 10, at 1:30 p.m. This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community.

The Pontiac Collective Impact Partnership was launched in 2020 to bring organizational leaders and community partners together utilizing a collective impact framework. Oakland University is leading the development of a Community Data Hub to support the group in selecting and evaluating outcomes. The Data Hub facilitated collection and exploration of multiple types and sources of data to aid the group in selecting priority outcome areas. This session will describe the process and use of conceptual frameworks, secondary data, a quantitative leadership survey, and a qualitative community survey in selecting outcome areas to prioritize the partnership’s work. Details about the development, collection, and analysis of data from the leadership survey and the community survey will be shared.

Key takeaways: Participants will understand at least three types of data that campus community partnerships can examine when prioritizing areas in which to work.

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Immediately following will be "What a Trip: Social Justice, Virtual Field Trips, and Lessons Learned from Pandemic Pedagogy," presented by Rachael Zeleny from the University of Baltimore. 

This presentation details the evolution of an interdisciplinary course at University of Baltimore. The original course relied entirely on experiential learning to museums via field trips. During these trips, students conducted analyses of museums as rhetorical and political spaces. As a result of the pandemic, the course evolved into a course that relied entirely on students making virtual field trips for these cultural organizations and for those at home. In both courses, students focus on issues of social justice as they pertain to museums: issues of access (who is able or encouraged to visit the museum?), issues of diversity (which artists and works of art are featured, and who is offered positions of power within the organization?), and issues of engagement (does the museum offer exhibits and programming that are relevant to the public they serve?).

In the revised class, students (1) met virtually with museum representatives to discuss their needs; (2) researched the types of resources, events, and objects that can be found in the different locations; (3) learned how to use technology such as Nearpod as multimodal composing platforms; and (4) created a virtual field trip to be used by that organization for educational and promotional purposes. By creating material for specific audiences, students not only learned the rhetorical skills of composing for diverse groups but also grappled with issues of equity, access, and engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to experience a virtual field trip and will receive all related materials and prompts.

This hour-long event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community. Please register online for this webinar and any others in the series you may be interested in.