COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: ACHIEVING THE PROMISE IN THE FACE OF CHANGING GOALS, CHANGING FUNDING PATTERNS, AND COMPETING PRIORITIES
COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: ACHIEVING THE PROMISE IN THE FACE OF CHANGING GOALS, CHANGING FUNDING PATTERNS, AND COMPETING PRIORITIES
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DOI：
10.2190/ns.18.2.g
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发表时间：
2008-08-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Renault-Caragianes, Paulette
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作者：
Silka, Linda;Toof, Robin;Renault-Caragianes, Paulette
社区大学合作伙伴关系面临的一个重要挑战是如何在目标、优先事项和资金不断变化的情况下保持自身。伙伴关系通常是由于某种“火花”而形成的：也许是一个事件，或者是对共同需求或共同关注的认识。通常，寻求外部资金为建立伙伴关系和执行伙伴关系的行动计划提供大部分资源。无论获得什么外部资金，通常都是短期的。这笔资金不会持续一段时间。通常，资金会附带一些关于允许的合伙方式的规定；不可避免地，一个发现者的优先事项将与另一个发现者的不同。面对资金和优先事项的变化，这些维持伙伴关系的问题是大多数社区大学伙伴关系所面临的问题。本文通过一个已经存在了近十年的环境正义伙伴关系来研究这些问题，该伙伴关系在参与者方面经历了许多变化，并在许多不同来源的资助下运作，包括国家环境健康科学研究所、住房和城市发展研究所以及环境保护局。此外，伙伴关系中的实体虽然有某些共同的环境目标，但由于各机构的需要不同，有时在某些目标上存在分歧。使这一连续性问题进一步复杂化的现实是，伙伴关系目标确立后，有时必须改变优先事项。这种环境正义伙伴关系的经历揭示了社区大学伙伴关系所面临的各种斗争，当他们希望避免被资助者或个人组织中的权力经纪人的更大关注所破坏时。本文探讨了社区大学合作伙伴关系在面对不断变化的目标、优先事项和资金时可能采取的保持弹性的方法。
An important challenge that community-university partnerships face is how to maintain themselves in the face of changing goals, priorities, and funding. Partnerships often form as a result of some sort of "spark:" an incident, perhaps, or the identification of a shared need or common concern. Often, external funding is sought to provide the majority of resources for the establishment of a partnership and for the implementation of the partnership's action plan. Whatever external funding is obtained is typically of short duration. The funding will not continue over time. And usually the funding comes with stipulations about allowable partnership approaches; inevitably the priorities of one finder will differ from those of another. These issues of the maintenance of partnership in the face of shifting funding and priorities are ones that confront most community-university partnerships. This article examines these issues through the lens of an environmental justice partnership that has existed for nearly a decade, has undergone many changes in who is involved, and has operated with funding from many different sources, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition, the entities in the partnerships, while they share certain environmental objectives, are sometimes at odds on particular goals when the needs of the agencies differ. Further complicating this issue of continuity is the reality that partners, on occasion, must shift priorities after partnership goals are established. The experiences of this environmental justice partnership shed light on the kinds of struggles community-university partnerships face when they hope to avoid being undermined by the larger concerns of the funders or by the power brokers in their individual organizations. This article examines approaches that community-university partnerships might take to remain resilient in the face of changing goals, priorities and funding.