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Rethinking the Field in Crisis: The Baltimore Field School and Building Ethical Community and University Partnerships
No full textThis Projects With Promise case study offers insights for addressing tensions between universities and communities in building partnerships and collectively rethinking “the field” of community engagement. We explore moving beyond a solely place-based understanding of “the field” into an ethos based on human interactions and mutual trust. Through an analysis of the Baltimore Field School (BFS) project, we argue that partnerships must be designed to create the time and space for self-reflexive qualitative methods that emerge from a personality-proof and sustainable infrastructure that can respond to crises and needs in both communities and universities. Rethinking and even “undoing” notions of institutional time and space within universities allows community-centered reflection that begins to cross the boundaries imposed by neoliberal institutions focused on profits above people. Exploring the distinct scholarly communities of higher education can inspire academics to rethink how universities can work with and not just for local communities
A Process for Asset Mapping to Develop a Blue Economy Corridor
No full textThrough a multistakeholder partnership, this research aims to catalyze the development of a blue economy corridor (BEC) through community-based asset mapping in the eastern portion of the Tar-Pamlico River Basin in North Carolina, a geographic area predominated by physically and culturally rural landscapes. Underpinned by appreciative inquiry, this project aims to counter a deficit model of community development in this portion of eastern North Carolina by increasing awareness of quality of life assets that communities currently possess and may leverage for sustainable economic, environmental, and social development through their inclusion in a digital interactive map freely available to the public
Developing a Strategic “Container” to Support Boundary Spanning and Belonging Amongst Diverse Collaborators at a Land-Grant University
No full textThis essay reports on engaging academic and community partners whose positionalities spanned diverse lived experiences and power structures. Using groundwork from several literatures, we reflect on developing, nurturing, repairing, and expanding a container as a critically reflective space for experimenting with new ways of being and doing. A well-curated and nurtured container creates processes and spaces where group members feel they belong; they commit to practice a shared set of agreements, and work through interpersonal and organizational conflict that will inevitably arise. The container can be an instrument for identity, organizational, and tactical boundary spanning. As a microsystem, a container can mobilize collective engagement when team members reflect diverse identities, hierarchies, and roles within the academic system and partnering communities. Theorizing the container as an opportunity structure for boundary spanning may help those advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) within academic land-grant institutions, university–community collaboratives, and community-based organizations
Performance Evaluation Disagreement: Determinants and Impact on Fund Flows
No full textThis paper studies investor disagreement in the performance evaluation of equity mutual funds by comparing two existing approaches and estimating its relations with fund characteristics, active management level and fund flows. We find that investors disagree more about the performance of funds that have higher expense ratio and turnover, lower manager tenure and dividend yield, and that are older, smaller and part of a larger family. Disagreement is also higher for funds that follow riskier investment style strategies and deviate more from their benchmarks. Finally, larger disagreement leads to more net fund flows. These findings suggest that heterogeneous investors do not value funds with aggressive active trading strategies similarly, and that favorable valuations by some clienteles result in positive demands for this type of management
Factors Mediating the Association between Financial Socialization and Well-Being: An African American Perspective
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This study examines the relationship between financial socialization and well-being (financial and subjective) mediated by three motivations: financial knowledge, goal setting, and self-control, either directly on financial behaviors or indirectly through financial skills on financial behaviors of African Americans compared with European Americans. Researchers used an integrated concept derived from Gudmunson and Dane’s (2011) Financial Socialization framework and Fisher and Fisher’s (1992) Information Motivation Behavior Model to examine National Financial Well-Being Survey data. Researchers found a significant difference between African Americans and European Americans when “self-control” mediates directly through financial behaviors and indirectly through financial skills. There is also a significant difference in the relationship when “goal setting” mediates the relationship indirectly through skills in financial behaviors. Finally, there is a significant difference when “financial knowledge” directly mediates financial behaviors. Specifically, the findings imply that self-control is one of the most impactful factors on African Americans’ well-being
Social Determinants of Health and Desirable Financial Behaviors: The Mediation Effect of Financial Knowledge
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic caused people to change their positive and negative financial behaviors. Social determinants of health (SDH) include several conditions in a person’s environment, e.g., economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context. This research aims to investigate how SDH is related to desirable financial behaviors while considering financial knowledge as the mediation variable, using data collected in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social cognitive theory (SCT) was used to develop the theoretical framework. The results of this study indicate that economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, and social and community context are positively associated with desirable financial behaviors. Further, financial knowledge plays a significant role in mediating the relationships between social determinants of health and desirable financial behaviors. This article provides implications on the effect of SDH on financial behaviors, underscoring the relevance of applying the SCT framework to examine the interplay between social factors and financial behaviors. The discussion and implication section of this study provides strategic direction to enhancing financial behaviors through the improvement of SDH and financial knowledge