Randy Stoecker, in conjunction with Crystel Anders and Amy Mondloch discuss key elements of developing and sustaining community academic partnerships.

These include:
1. Collaborating from the early stages---building the project together

2. Both partners sharing a passion for the project
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3. Perceiving partnerships as a mutual teaching/learning experience

4. The importance of academic partners caring about and respecting the community

5. Communicating expectations and agreeing on desired outcomes

6. Planning roles and responsibilities and what resources are needed

7. The importance of partnerships producing something that can be used by the community

8. Maintaining and managing the relationship through continual communication

9. Managing conflict

10. Addressing who owns the data and how to handle sensitive data «less

Guide Questions for this Presentation:

1. How might a community organization connect with academics from the university for the purposes of a research partnership?

2. What are actions academic researchers might take before making contact with community organizations and proposing a proj »more

ect or idea?

3. What kind of training or guidance do academic researchers need in order to be able to effectively work with non-profit agencies?

4. What does “relationship” mean between research academics and community organizations? What does it look like?

5. What are some of the challenges that can occur in a project?

6. Discuss items to be considered relative to the planning process between academic and community organizations.

7. How might a community organization feel about or view “ownership” of the data that has been collected and consequently, what happens to it?

8. What happens between the academic and the community organization when the research project is completed? «less