Community Partners as True Partners

On March 14, 2008, the Colin Powell Center and the New York Campus Compact presented a service-learning roundtable at CCNY. About 50 faculty members, staff, and representatives of community organizations attended the event. Their focus: the strong partnerships between community-based organizations and institutions of higher education that are key to strong, successful service-learning experiences.

Roundtable I: Benefits and Motivations of Partnerships Representatives of institutions of higher education discussion: How do community organizations and the community at large benefit from partnerships with institutions of higher education? Why do institutions of higher education want to partner with community-based, nonprofit institutions? More Community partners discussion: How do institutions of higher education benefit from partnerships with community-based nonprofit groups? Why do community-based organizations and nonprofits want to partner with institutions of higher education? More Roundtables II and III: Challenges and Recommendations More