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Doctoral Internships as Pathways for Professional Growth and Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
No full textThis article examines a longstanding university-sponsored summer internship program for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School. Four years of student reflection data suggest that an internship is an enriching experiential learning opportunity that contributes to both students’ career development and their trajectories as publicly engaged scholars. Specifically, students shared that summer doctoral internships helped them hone their career interests, make connections between their scholarship and the public good, and expand their professional networks. Internships have potential as a promising practice for a more student-centered doctoral education that prepares students for a range of career paths. Graduate schools and universities can inspire students to impact the greater public good over the course of their careers, both within and outside academe. Rather than being a distraction from doctoral training and research, internships may further hone doctoral students’ scholarly and career development
The International Service-Learning Network: A Community of Practice Designed for a Pandemic
No full textThe International Service-Learning Network is a group of university teaching faculty and staff in the United States and United Kingdom who formed a community of practice in 2020 around issues of service-learning and community engagement and to provide cross-institutional support during the COVID-19 pandemic. This reflective essay analyzes two sets of reflections written by Network members—the first set written in 2021 and the second set in 2023. The reflections describe many of the disruptions and impacts that affected community engagement for students, teaching staff, and community partners as well as the changes and innovations that emerged from the global crisis in both countries. We analyze these reflections, synthesizing noted observations that broadly affected our institutions, and offer suggestions and guidance for other community-engaged practitioners to consider
Embodying PAR: A Reflection on Building Trust Across Institutional Hierarchies
No full textIn this cowritten reflection, two co–principal investigators of a federally funded participatory action research (PAR) project that involved a university–community collaboration discuss how they built a relationship of trust through a deep shared belief in PAR ethics and ethos and through what they learned together from their collaboration with community researchers about the importance of building relationships and solidarity across differences. They argue that building ethical, reciprocal relationships between faculty and staff within universities, especially in the context of collaborations with communities outside the university, is a worthwhile and necessary component of living out the ethics of a participatory framework
Heritage in Practice: Cultivating Critical Reflection and Intercultural Communication in Bonaire
No full textA critical turn in heritage studies that integrates nonexpert (including colonial) voices presents significant didactic and educational challenges. How do we teach heritage practices in an intercultural, and previously colonial, context? The project Making Bonairean Heritage Together was designed as a showcase to equip students with essential skills for engaging in collaborative, intercultural heritage practices, particularly through cocreation and collaboration with external partners and communities in an international context. These skills are crucial in an increasingly decolonizing field of practice. This article outlines the students’ intercultural experiences and the project’s structure, objectives, and lessons learned. By analyzing students’ voices in developing intercultural competencies, cultural reflexivity, and awareness of intercultural heritage practices, we seek to contribute to research on heritage education in an intercultural and decolonial context
(Re)imagining Graduate Education Professional Development Spaces for Community-Engaged Practitioner-Scholars
No full textThis basic, exploratory qualitative dissertation study (Van Schyndel, 2022) examined professional identity development of community-engaged practitioner-scholars through their participation in a U.S.- based community engagement professional association’s graduate student fellowship program. Semistructured interviews with 15 program alumni revealed six common themes grouped into two sections. “The people” focused on participants’ backgrounds and ways of work, and “the setting” focused on participants’ experiences of tension within the academy and their development of new conceptualizations, new relationships, and new practices through the fellowship program. Findings suggested that program participation was critical to not only their ongoing professional identity development as community-engaged practitioner-scholars, but also their ability to persist through graduation in the face of challenging higher education environments. Professional associations can provide an alternate setting to what graduate students may experience inside the academy, especially by offering programs designed with principles of relationship-building, community, wellness, and inclusion. Additional recommendations and implications for practice are included
A New Approach to Teaching Personal Financial Education
No full textThis paper outlines a new approach to teaching a financial planning/financial literacy course. It begins with personality assessments and other tools to help students build a solid foundation upon which they can create goals and develop a financial plan. In contrast, most financial planning textbooks outline the financial planning process, provide an overview of the economic system, and then focus on time value of money concepts and goal setting. All the texts start with the basic assumption that each student knows his or her goals. Educators need to be sure their students have a solid foundation of self-awareness before they can plan for their future. A self-awareness foundation would include knowledge of core values and key strength competencies, awareness of the importance of strong relationship skills, hope for the future, expressions of gratitude, and meaningful work. Without a solid foundation, goals and objectives cannot provide the same level of life satisfaction and happiness desired in life. Sample assignments are provided that would help educators introduce these topics in an undergraduate course. Implementation of these elements in an undergraduate personal finance course increased student evaluations of the course by 7%
The Association of Cryptocurrency and the Use of Alternative Financial Services
No full textAlternative financial services (AFS) have been studied in recent years in terms of how these financialmarkets are utilized. The products and services include check cashing, pawnshop loans, payday advanceloans, electronic cash transmissions, tax refund anticipation arrangements, rent-to-own contracts, prepaiddebit cards, gift cards, and loans collateralized by automobile titles. Cryptocurrency has become part ofthis AFS ecology. The 2023 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking collected informationon AFS use, including the use of cryptocurrency as an AFS. This research answered the questions: a) Dousers of cryptocurrencies for AFS also tend to use them for investments; b) do users of cryptocurrencies tomake payments tend to use them for other AFS purposes, and c) do users of cryptocurrencies to sendmoney to friends and family tend to use them for other AFS purposes
Central Bank Digital Currency in India: Perspectives on Design Choices and Implications of e-Rupee
No full textCentral Bank Digital Currencies are gaining substantial attention globally as central banks explore the design and implementation of digital currencies. This study examines the design considerations of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and their potential impact on India\u27s financial services sector. Employing a mixed-methods approach, we analyse how the e-rupee, India\u27s CBDC, may reshape the country\u27s financial landscape. Through expert interviews (n=22), we identify key design elements of CBDCs and their implications for existing payment systems and banking services. Our findings suggest that while the e-rupee offers unique advantages regarding settlement efficiency and programmability, it faces adoption challenges due to the established dominance of existing digital payment systems. We also explore potential future use cases of CBDCs in India\u27s financial sector and provide policy recommendations for effective CBDC implementation. The study contributes to the emerging literature on CBDCs from a developing economy context
