Associate Professor Salem State University, United States
This panel will bring together the editors of the new volume, Exploring Equitable Community-Campus Relationships, a co-publication of AAC&U, Routledge, and Campus Compact. This volume offers replicable approaches for centering equity as a core value in campus-community relationships. In this panel, the editors will explore the volume, previewing the many ways in which equity is deliberately centered in community relationships, practices, research, and pedagogies in the various cultures, perspectives, and institutions described throughout the book. With a focus on relationship-building as a pathway to meaningful community engagement, the editors will discuss successes, tensions, obstacles, and moments of vulnerability detailed throughout the chapters, describing how relationships were initiated and lessons learned to ensure equitable values were centered and upheld. Attendees will engage in discussion on what this work might look like in their own institutional contexts and the implications of this work for our current political climate.
Exploring Equitable Community-Campus Relationships will be available for purchase at the AAC&U Publications Table, Level M1, and the editors will be available to sign the book at the end of this session.
