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Reconfiguring Knowledge Ecosystems: Librarians and Adult Literacy Educators in Knowledge Exchange Work
Get PDFKnowledge exchange, also called knowledge translation, mobilization, or transfer, increasingly factors in university strategic plans and funding agency mandates. The growing emphasis on research that includes community engagement and making research knowledge more accessible and useful for nonacademic constituents often brings in knowledge brokers, whose activities promote sharing of research knowledge among different actors. In this article, we consider how librarians and adult literacy educators engage in this work as professionals uniquely positioned to advance knowledge exchange initiatives. Three initiatives in British Columbia, Canada, involve academic librarians and adult literacy educators engaging in knowledge exchange work in transformative ways. We describe how they are reconfiguring knowledge making, sharing, and use with constituents and bridging nonacademic and university communities. This approach disrupts traditional notions of who produces and consumes knowledge and who is an expert while acknowledging how place-based approaches are essential for advancing knowledge exchange initiatives
"We Are About Life Changing Research": Community Partner Perspectives on Community-Engaged Research Collaborations
Get PDFThis study examines the ethics and politics of knowledge across 15 distinctive community-engaged research projects. We focus our analysis on interviews with community partners and consider their perceptions of research, academic research partners, motivations for partnering, and the benefits and challenges of community-engaged research. We highlight three themes: Community partners’ (1) motivations to know better and more systematically what they already know, (2) interests in legitimating community-based knowledge (i.e., knowledge produced beyond the academy), and (3) efforts to navigate often inflexible university timelines and budgetary processes. Our findings highlight concerns at various ethical, political, and epistemic intersections and connect to the possibilities and limits of equity-oriented collaborative research methodologies for redressing epistemic and social injustices. We suggest that these challenges need systematized attention if the field of community-engaged research is to achieve the epistemological and social justice missions that are often articulated as the aspirations of such partnerships
Critically Engaged in a Predominantly White Institution: The Power of a Critical Service-Learning Course to Cultivate a Social Justice Stance
Get PDFThis article examines how a particular set of critical pedagogical strategies was used in a critical service-learning course to shift student perspectives and serve community partners. A self-study of a critical service-learning course that asked university students at a predominantly White institution to serve in urban schools was performed to ascertain how effectively critical service-learning may have addressed the weaknesses in traditional service-learning by (1) dismantling hegemonic discourses White students bring to the classroom and (2) engaging in service that would address inequities present in urban schools. By examining 2 years of data from student assignments, interviews with community partners, and course evaluations, this article argues for the efficacity of several pedagogical tools that can contribute to shifting the perspectives of White students as well as students of color.
The Carnegie Corporation and Philanthropy in Canadian Higher Education: A Case Study on the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension
Get PDFWe provide a case study of how Carnegie Foundation grants to the University of Alberta (Western Canada) during the Great Depression impacted the university’s community engagement practices. Previously unutilized archival sources contribute to a historical survey of the university’s Department of Extension as Carnegie philanthropy enabled the establishment of a Fine Arts Division within this department. The many benefits to the wider province, however, were laden with imperialist assumptions around race and the European “canon,” and thus contributed to the concurrent development of settler institutions and erasure of Indigenous people’s cultures and livelihoods. As Alberta’s economy shrinks, unemployment increases, and university funding is cut, it remains unclear whether the desire for new and innovative forms of outreach and engagement seen in the Great Depression still exists today. Concluding, we ask what alternatives to philanthropy we can, as scholars, university employees, and citizens, make available
Financial advisor use, life events, and the relationship with beneficial intentions
No full textThis study investigated whether working with a financial advisor and incurring a recent life event were associated with having beneficial financial planning intentions. In a final sample of 953 online survey respondents, no relationship was found between working with a financial advisor and beneficial intentions over the next 12 months. Life events that incurred within the prior year, however, were positively related to beneficial intentions and when interacted with working with an advisor, had a positive moderating effect. These results suggest that planning for difficult life transitions is an important benefit of working with a financial advisor. 
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No full textThe traditional model of retirement planning centers around the accumulation of a portfolio dur- ing the earning years followed by a drawdown from this portfolio after retirement. This drawdown is intended to support a desired retirement lifestyle, and central to a successful retirement is the sustain- ability of the retirement portfolio over the expected planning horizon. We define portfolio success to mean the ability of the retirement portfolio to sustain a desired retirement lifestyle over the desired planning horizon, and use simulations and logistic regressions to evaluate the impact of asset alloca- tion, the profile of portfolio returns, the withdrawal rate, and the length of the planning horizon on portfolio success. Our analysis shows that the likelihood of success is inversely related to withdrawal rate, retirement horizon, and portfolio risk increase, and directly related to portfolio return, allocation aggressiveness, and early experience. The analysis also indicates that portfolio success is highly sen- sitive to withdrawal rates, with conservative allocations exhibiting greater variation in portfolio out- comes and aggressive allocations providing more dependable portfolio outcomes for retirees who desire higher withdrawal rates
Distribution channel effects on advisor managed investment performance
No full textThis study focuses on the effects that business models have on advisor managed portfolio per- formance by attempting to determine if advisors at Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) firms pro- duce higher net investment results compared with advisors employed at dually registered Independent Broker/Dealer (IBD) firms. Using data from one of the largest investment advisory plat- forms in the United States, we found qualified supporting evidence that advisors at RIAs outper- formed advisors at IBDs in higher-risk portfolios through the use of Turnkey Asset Management Programs and Unified Managed Accounts
