Assignment 14: Applying community relations practice
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the articles Into the Storm, (Links to an external site.)Lessons Learnt from Literature (Links to an external site.), and Crops for Cash (Links to an external site.), and the webpages Overview: University & Community Partnerships (Links to an external site.) and Connecting Communities with Colleges & Universities (Links to an external site.). For this discussion, you will choose one of the following functions of community relations for higher education institutions to put what you’ve learned to use and ask your peers what they think.
Bringing people of different races, classes, and cultures together in a community
Helping people get involved in politics as a way to bring about community and social change
Development of young people, leadership, and mentoring
Creating fellowships to help professionals improve their skills.
Before you write your first post, think of, research, or make up a situation in which a college or university needs or could benefit from the kind of community relations practices that the community relations function you chose describes.
For this discussion, you will select one of the following functions of community relations for institutions of higher education to apply what you have learned, and engage the responses of your peers.
Bridging racial, class and cultural differences within a community
Facilitating political engagement as a vehicle for community and social change
Youth development, leadership and mentoring
Forming fellowships to strengthen professional skills.
Before you write your initial post, recall, research, or fabricate a scenario wherein a college or university faces circumstances in which it requires, or can benefit from, community relations practices of the sort specified by the community relations function you selected.
In your initial post,
Describe the scenario you recall, researched, or fabricated.
Explain why the community relations function you selected would be needed by, or beneficial to, the institution and the community.
Identify what the institution seeks to achieve by applying community relations practice(s).
Apply what you have learned to propose how community relations practice(s) could be developed or deployed to bring about the desired outcome or outcomes.
