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Community-Based Research in Practice: Faculty Reflections on a Collaborative Approach to Teaching CBR With a Variety of Community Partners
Get PDFThis essay highlights a collaborative approach to teaching a university course on community-based research while working with a variety of community partners. As part of a broader research project, the course involved faculty from a range of disciplines as well as community sponsors from public and private sectors. Working with a complex array of stakeholders proved challenging at times, yet yielded rewards for the students and the professors teaching the course
Enumerating the value of financial advice in a competitive market: a dual structure approach and analysis
No full textThis paper introduces and examines a composite, dual fee structure (CDFS) for financial planners that helps quantify the value of financial advice. Our structure specifically separates financial plan- ning (advice) fees based on total net worth (NW) from Investment Management (IM) fees based on assets under management (AUM), which are readily observable and pervasive in the marketplace. Doing so facilitates quantifying the value of this financial advice in a competitive market setting. Knowing the financial value of the non-IM component of financial planning services can reduce per- ceived conflicts of interest by permitting financial planners to generate compensation for non-IM planning activities in a transparent manner, whether or not the client moves investable funds to the planner
Considering the Role of a Bridge Person in a Community-University Partnership to Address Food Insecurity Among Migrant Families
Get PDFCommunity-university partnerships are increasingly being used to address complex, systemic problems, such as food insecurity. However, this form of research is highly labour intensive and requires substantial time and energy. Several community-university partnerships have begun to appoint individuals who act to ‘bridge’ such partnerships to navigate complex social and political environments, and stimulate action. However, few examples exist that highlight the specific nature of these positions. To address this gap, the current paper describes the multiple and complicated roles played by a bridge person in supporting a project developed in response to food insecurity among migrant families. We outline three major roles that required varying forms of labour: 1) Solving Problems (Adaptive Labour), 2) Navigating Scarcity (Political Labour), and 3) Responding to Urgency (Emotional Labour). We intend to highlight the ambivalent spaces bridge people operate within and the implications for these individuals and the community-university partnerships they intend to support
Supporting University–Community Partnerships: A Qualitative Inquiry With Contingent Academics to Understand Their Scholarship of Engagement
Get PDFUsing a qualitative interview design and the conceptual framework of an engaged campus (Furco, 2010), this article examines the engaged scholarship of contingent academics in a university–community partnership with several professional development schools in the United States. This article highlights some facets that make their engaged scholarship different from traditional scholarship, and the challenges in meeting responsibilities to both the community and university. The purpose of this article is to extend our understanding of community-engaged scholarship and help higher education institution administrators think about policies to support contingent academics participating in other community partnerships
E-Engagement: Approaches to using Digital Communications in Student-Community Engagement
Get PDFScholars have claimed that online communication technologies would upend university–community engagement. We explored faculty approaches to and perspectives on e-engagement at one university with a largely residential student body where classes were held in-person. We suggest that e-engagement affords different rather than better or worse opportunities for engaged learning. Because e-engagement often involves international partners, it raises issues of student competencies to work with diverse partners online, including intercultural understanding and digital literacy. This study preceded the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, but the subsequent conversion of many courses to online format, and the possibility of similar crises spurring online-only learning in the future, add new urgency to understanding how communication technologies can facilitate community engagement. Universities can adapt and expand the myriad existing models of community engagement for online engagement. In short, e-engagement challenges us to navigate new forms of community and place, whether or not in response to crisis
Virtual Engagement of Youth in the time of COVID-19 and Social Uprisings: Youth Voice, Sex Trading, and the Future of Engaged Research
Get PDFSpurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and social uprisings against police violence, the Minnesota Youth Sex Trading (MYST) project moved to an entirely virtual format to engage young people who trade sex. Grounded in participatory and action research, we invested in Millennial and Generation Z researchers’ leadership and used marketing principles to create a research-brand for our online presence. As a result, the team garnered new technical skills. More importantly, we developed a novel approach to trust-building, accountability, transparency, and authenticity as we built an online community and increased our reach with marginalized young people. Our work shows that youth culture and social media use during COVID-19 and social uprisings contain valuable insights into young people’s engagement in research. This paper illuminates promising virtual participatory action research principles to engage youth online as experts in prevention, intervention, and wellness promotion, yielding important new insights about the future of engaged research
Mobile bank applications: loyalty of young bank customers
No full textThe purpose of this study is to investigate how young bank customers (YBCs) perceive the rela- tionships between several antecedents (i.e., usability, responsiveness, customer satisfaction, and reli- ability) and loyalty in the context of mobile bank applications (MBAs). An electronic questionnaire was sent to 500 YBCs in Sweden, 146 of whom completed it. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the measurement model, and structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that usability is indirectly related to loyalty through responsiveness and customer satisfaction. The study contributes to the literature by developing a usability–loyalty model of YBCs using MBAs