Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships A Handbook

"Replete with diverse real-world examples, useful samples of classroom activities, and noholds-barred reflections from experienced rofessionals, this comprehensive handbook is the perfect resource for navigating the realities, messiness, and complexities of preparing students to conduct equitable, respectful, and sustainable community partnership activities."- Andrew Furco, Professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota, and coeditor of Re-Envisioning the Public Research University: Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change "Student involvement in community-partnered work is so pervasive in higher education that it is natural there would be a comprehensive resource for student preparation. Yet none as thorough as this handbook existed. Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships provides facilitators a strong theoretical and practical orientation to student preparation, key activities and prompts, and thoughtful commentary on the processes and conditions around student preparation, including institutional infrastructure. Importantly, the handbook treats topics of cultural humility, equity, and dissonance with nuance and a pragmatic approach. This handbook is an essential resource for community engagement professionals working with students in higher education."- Lina Dee Dostilio, Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Community Affairs and Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, and editor of The Community Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field