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Smart Change, Linda L. Baer, Anne Hill Duin, Judith A. Ramaley
Smart Change, Linda L. Baer, Anne Hill Duin, Judith A. Ramaley
Public Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article explains how "smart change" (contrasted with routine, strategic, and transformative change) is about using learning as a core asset and a guidance system for institutional change, and provides three institutional vignettes.
Why Do We Engage In Engagement?, Judith A. Ramaley
Why Do We Engage In Engagement?, Judith A. Ramaley
Public Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations
Universities have many reasons for seeking closer alliances and partnerships with the communities they serve. These partnerships constitute a set of mutually beneficial relationships that can challenge the traditional values of the academy. Direct involvement with community and societal issues is often considered less than scholarly by faculty and the changes necessary to promote meaningful community-campus interactions may be viewed with suspicion or anxiety by members of both the campus community and the broader community. There are many benefits associated with engagement that make the challenge of building the capacity for partnership worthwhile.