ERIC EJ1092908: Serving the Community through Discipline pdf

ERIC EJ1092908: Serving the Community through Discipline

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Discipline-specific consulting has a critical place in any university as a form of community outreach. For example, when government and nonprofit organizations need objective information for decision making, a university-driven consulting program providing free services can fulfill their needs. We show how this can be accomplished by describing a project completed by Statistics in the Community (Statcom), a graduate student-run organization at Purdue University. Statcom helped the city of West Lafayette, Indiana, develop and analyze the results of two community surveys. We use this as a case study to illustrate the multiple benefits of implementing such an engagement opportunity at any university and argue that discipline-specific consulting should play a major role in university outreach. This case study also illustrates how students can be utilized to fulfill a university’s engagement mission

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2006
• Year: 2006
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Consultation Programs, Teaching Methods, Community Involvement, Higher Education, Community Surveys, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Consultants, Community Services, Public Agencies, Nonprofit Organizations, Gunaratna, Nilupa S.|Olbricht, Gayla R.|Lipka, Alexander E.|Watkins, Amy E.|Yoshida, Patricia Y

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