The Global Movement of Engaged Universities: Engaging South and North

Dr. Lorlene Hoyt, Director of Programs and Research

Publishers for DevelopmentForward Thinking: Developing a Global Research Cycle

October 15, 2013

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesWhat is the Talloires Network?

A global coalition of universities committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education.

• Founded in 2005 in Talloires, France, by 29 presidents from 23 countries• More than 300 members in more than 70 countries• Elected international steering committee

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesThe Talloires Declaration

“We believe that higher education institutions exist to serve and strengthen

the society of which they are part. Through the learning, values and

commitment of faculty, staff and students, our institutions create social

capital, preparing students to contribute positively to local, national and

global community. Universities has the responsibility to foster in faculty, staff

and students a sense of social responsibility and commitment to the social

good.”

--Talloires Declaration, 2005

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesElected Steering Committee

• Mark Gearan: Chair; President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (USA)• Janice Reid: Vice-Chair; Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Sydney (Australia)• Lisa Anderson: President, American University in Cairo (Egypt)• Scott Cowen: President, Tulane University (USA)• Sharifah Hapsah Shahabudin: Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia)• Shamsh Kassim Lakha: Founding President, Aga Khan University (Pakistan)

• Anthony Monaco: President, Tufts University (USA)

• Olive Mugenda: Vice-Chancellor, Kenyatta University (Kenya)

• José María Sanz Martinez: Rector, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

• Jerome Slamat: Chairperson, South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum (South Africa)

• John Wood: Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth University (UK)

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesWhere is the Talloires Network?

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesPower of Regional Networks

• The MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship

• Youth Economic Participation Initiative (YEPI)

• University Volunteer Program

• Faculty and Staff Professional Development

• Action Research Program

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesTalloires Network Programs

• Recognizing and providing financial support to member universities

• Emphasizing student and community leadership, demonstrated impact on university and societal problems

• Awarding 3 prizes each year (2009-2013)

• Receiving 68 applications each year (on average)

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesMacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship

• $5.9 million global initiative in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation

• Addressing global crisis in youth unemployment by supporting universities to transition students into the work force

• Supporting 8 demonstration sites ($350,000 each)

• Exchanging knowledge through a global community of practice

• Launched in 2012, will run through 2016

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesYouth Economic Development Program

• Pilot program, hosted by TN and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid launched in 2013 with funding by Banco Santander

• Goal is to promote global civic engagement and community building through the international exchange of student volunteers within Talloires Network member institutions

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity Volunteer Program

• New TN initiative funded by the Pearson Foundation and supported administratively by Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP)

• Goal is to impart to participants the technical skills and knowledge that will enable them to expand and strengthen civic engagement efforts at their universities, as well as develop strategies and methods to promote institutional policy change and quality improvement

• There are specific areas of focus for Executives (Leadership and Management Skills and Strategy) and Faculty and Staff (Best Practices, Effective Techniques, Interventions and Models)

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesFaculty and Staff Professional Development Program

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesAction Research Program

• Taking advantage of opportunities for research embedded in and cutting across programs and activities

• Focusing on 16 university civic engagement programs in 12 countries: Malaysia, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan, Australia, Scotland, Chile, U.S.A, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe

• 1 program from each region of the globe, 3/4 representing the global south, more than 1/3 in sub-Saharan Africa

• Encouraging South-North and South-South learning

• Key areas of research: 1) university civic engagement exemplars, 2) economic development and participation and 3) incentives and rewards for engaged faculty

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesGuiding Questions

•University Civic Engagement Exemplars•How do universities in different regions of the world understand their civic mission? •To what problems of civic life are they attempting to address through efforts to better engage students in communities?• What practices are universities around the world using to better engage students in communities beyond service learning? •How do such practices evolve over time?• What difference have these made in the civic capacities of students and communities? What are the challenges?• How do universities and communities define civic learning outcomes? How do they assess them?

• Economic Development and Participation•How can civic engagement contribute to the economic participation of university graduates in various contexts? •In what ways do universities link their civic engagement programs with efforts to improve graduate economic participation?• What are the specific characteristics of the entrepreneurial mindset?• How can universities prepare entrepreneurial students to launch or join small businesses that have a positive social and economic impact in their communities? •How do service learning and other engaged pedagogies contribute to entrepreneurship education and graduate employability? •In transitioning from education to employment, how are the challenges that women face different from those faced by men?

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesAction Research Program: Research Foci

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUKM – Service-Learning to Support Graduate Transformation and

SME Development

• UKM is one of the leading research universities in Malaysia

•Program run by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprises Development

• Goal: Use experience-based, transformational and skill enhancement learning environment to consolidate students’ knowledge in their areas of expertise with entrepreneurial and consultancy skills for the development of SMEs

• Two program components• Basic training in entrepreneurship during undergraduate studies• “Finishing school” training to enhance technical and business skills, followed by an internship program

• Program will be extended to students outside UKM including those at National Cheng Kung University, Informatics Business Institute-Dharmajaya and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesInternational Medical University (Malaysia) – Kampung Angkat

• IMU is Malaysia’s first private medical university

•“Village adoption” project was launched in 2007 as part of IMU’s CSR and in conjunction with IMU’s 15th anniversary

• Each of the three campuses adopted a village, with the Clinical School adopting Kampung Tekir

• Goal: Enable mecical and nursing undergraduate students to practice their knowledge and clinical skills in a rural setting while villages receive health education and services

• Programs are held every 3-4 months, with one major program every year and several smaller programs

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesLahore University of Management Sciences – Literaty Pakistan

• LUMS is a leading Pakistani business, social science, law and engineering institution

•Goal: Provide an “accelerator” platform to university students to conceive, design and implement projects/enterprises of their own and see them through from conception to realization

• Aim to expand the “Social Innovation Desk” to serve as a hub for all LUMS students to share ideas

•Conduct summer immersion program on social entrepreneurship as part of the National Outreach Program

•Current/past projects• Publishing of social entrepreneurship book co-authored by students• Creation of incubation space for student-led start ups

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity of Western Sydney – Refugee Action Support

• UWS has six campuses across Greater Western Sydney with a mission linked to the development of the region, home to 100 nationalities

• Collaborative effort of UWS, Charles Stuart University, Sydney University, the Australian Numeracy and Literacy Foundation and the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities • Goal: Increase literacy and social development of refugee students in primary and secondary schools in Western and South Western suburbs of Sydney

•Pre-service education, social work and speech pathology students are trained by ANLF to support learning of humanitarian refugee students as part of this compulsory service-learning course

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity of Glasgow - Activate

•Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English speaking world and offers a BA in community development

• Goal: Give local people who are active in their communities an opportunity to reflect on what they do and why they do it in order to be more effective in getting their voices heard for the groups and communities they live and work in

• Partner with local organizations and agencies to run courses in response to community capacity building agenda

• Contributes to sustainability of organizations, networks and initiatives and increased community participation

•Explores topics such as community, discrimination, local and global issues, working with groups and undertaking a small community research project

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversidad Austral de Chile – Nucleus for Entrepre-Learning:

Emprendete UACh!

• UACh has a long history of preparing students for business careers and training entrepreneurs

•Goal: Generate interactive entrepreneurship and learning experiences with students, professors and community partners in an effort to strengthen the development of the capacities, networks, and strategies that will position youth to be protagonists in the generation of employment in the region

• Uses emprendizaje (entrepre-learning) methodology

• Three phases process: education, implementation and follow-up

• 150 students and 48 professors will participate in the program

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversidad Veracruzana – Engagement Program with the

Productive Sector

• UV is main public university in Veracruz, Mexico, with 5 regional campuses

•Engagement is at the core of UV’s academic functions

•UV Engagement Programs have existed for 20 years

• Have created alliances and spaces to facilitate links between academic activities and local communities

• Goal: Increase employment opportunities for young UV graduates based on regional vocations, fostering entrepreneurship, professional training, knowledge transfer, community development and coordination with public, private and social sectors with special focus on indigenous population and gender equality

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesTecnológico de Monterrey University – Brigadas Comunitarias

• Tec is a private Mexican university with campuses throughout the country and international offices in North America, Europe and Asia

• Goal: For students to work with communities to generate change and find solutions to problems

•Builds bridges between government, civil society and philanthropic organizations

• Three stage approach where interdisciplinary teams of students visit the community and design a project, spend 2-4 weeks living and working in the community over summer or winter break and then prepare a final presentation after they return

•Examples of student/community projects include: launching a company that transforms wine and beer bottles into eyeglasses and providing mentoring to girls at an orphanage

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesAmerican University in Cairo – Lazord Academy

• AUC is an independent, non-profit, non-sectarian and mulitcultural university which balances academics with a concern for the MENA region’s needs

• Vision of a dynamic, modern Middle East led by innovative technologies, practices and models for development and the reviving of history in arts, literature, science and architecture with connected individuals

• Goal: Enable students to develop professionally while also teaching them how to be responsible, civic oriented professionals, all them to seize opportunities in their field for civic development

• Program combines workshops inside the classroom and guided reflection exercises

• Five categories of civic education: values, attitude and behavior, knowledge, skills and practice

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesAuburn University – Living Democracy

• Auburn is a land-grant, public university with traditions of service and access

• Goal: Launch community-student relationships through which students learn about the hopes and dreams of the Alabama community and the unrealized potential of the town’s assets

•Provides undergraduate students a living-learning summer experience in community development in Alabama communities

• Program is coupled with courses in civic engagement and community journalism

• Some projects undertaken by students in collaboration with the communities include: development of canoe trail/rental service, and creation of economic development DVD script

The Global Movement of Engaged Universities2iE – Promoting Science-based Social Entrepreneurship in Africa

• 2iE is a bilingual, higher education institute and research center

• All 2iE students are trained to be “entrepreneurial-engineers”

• Goal: Boost the African economy with the creation of high valued start-ups involved in green business, poverty reduction and job creation

•Ecosystem combines training, research and businesses onsite

• Develop managerial training curricula and extend services to entrepreneurs outside of 2iE

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUmutara Polytechnic – Solve the Equation East-Africa

• UP began as a community initiative and was taken over by the government in 2009

• Collaborative network between UP, Makerere University, University of Nairobi and Muhimbiri University

•Goal: Increase graduate employment in East Africa through innovative educational solutions

• Incubation center will be created at all SEE partner universities

• Program will support piloting and mentoring of successful business ideas up to their commercialization

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity of Venda – Amplifying Grassroots Community Voices

• Originally founded to serve the Venda Bantustan, with the end of apartheid, Univen now focuses on science and technology

•Goal: Address the disconnect between the local government and the communities that it is supposed to represent through community platforms

•Reflection circles are facilitated by students and mediated by community peers to address local development issues in a democratic manner and enable the grassroots community to make decisions

• Brings together children, teenagers, men, women and the elderly to empower the community use its resources to achieve development aims

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity of the Witwatersrand - TBD

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa• Country: South Africa• Enrollment: 28, 453

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity of Cape Town – Graduate Entrepreneur Support Service

•UCT is the oldest university in Cape Town with the expansion of enhancement of its contribution to South Africa’s development challenges as one of its strategic goals

• Goal: Offer disadvantaged youth excluded from the tertiary education a chance to develop themselves and make a difference in their future and the future of their communities

•Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development (RAA) offers a 6 month program in entrepreneurial development

• GESS is for RAA graduates and alumni who would like to start a new business or build an existing business

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesUniversity of Zimbabwe - PaNhari

• Goal: Tackle the problem of youth unemployment and underemployment through tertiary institutions-based programmatic models that economically empower them for wealth create and fosters their transition into the 21st century workforce

• Three interacting initiatives•Passport to Success – entrepreneurship training•Incubator – non-cognitive life and workforce skills•Social Action – engaging youth in civic engagement

• Hosted by UZ but also works with 6 other universities

•Will benefit 750 youth over the three years of the YEPI program

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesRecent Publications

• The Engaged University by D. Watson, R. Hollister, S. Stroud, and E. Babcock published by Routledge

• “The Talloires Network: A Global Coalition of Engaged Universities” published in The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement by R. Hollister, J. Pollock, M. Gearan, J. Reid, S. Stroud, and E. Babcock

• Transforming Cities and Minds Through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity and Environment by L. Hoyt, published by Vanderbilt University Press, March 2013

• “Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Growing Global Movement” an article for Forum (European Association for International Education) by R. Hollister and M. Gearan.

• “Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement.” Published and distributed by the Talloires Network. Written by L. Hoyt and J. Pollock.

• Annotated bibliography on anchor institutions and community revitalization by L. Hoyt, R. Hollister, and E. Holden.

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesFuture Research Production

• Forthcoming Publications• “Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Expanding Global Movement of Engaged

Universities.” By L. Hoyt and R. Hollister in B. Hall and R. Tandon (eds.) Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Rethinking Social Responsibility to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2014.

• An essay for “Institutionalizing the Civic” by R. Hollister for Bringing Theory To Practice’s Civic Provocations series, edited by Jill Reich

• Papers-in-progress• “Universities Without Walls: Engaging Our World” by J. Reid. Keynote address at

Association of Commonwealth Universities 100th Anniversary Conference.• An article entitled “Chasing the Tail: Community-based Learning, Civic Engagement and

Student Protest in Revolutionary Egypt” by Amy Newcomb Rowe and Martin Timothy Rowe for a special issue of Critical Sociology (A Critical Assessment of Community-Based Research)

• Research-in-progress• Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement expanded series• Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesResearch Support and Sharing

• TN encourages and supports research on incentives and rewards for engaged faculty among our members and partners• By leading the develop of curriculum for training faculty and staff to

conduct engaged scholarship• Creating a repository of research publications on engaged scholarship• Gathering and sharing faculty promotion and tenure policies and

guidelines• TN functions as a global resource by maintaining virtual and physical

libraries on the broader topic of civic engagement and social responsibility in higher education as well as research in these two areas.• Presenting research and promoting new publications at conferences,

workshops, etc.• Accumulating and posting relevant research products to the TN web site• Showcasing our own as well as member and partner research publications

in the monthly TN newsletter and blasting updates via Facebook and Twitter.

The Global Movement of Engaged UniversitiesOur Vision

• Majority of universities worldwide collaborate actively with nearby communities

• Universities become more effective engines of social and economic development

• Partnerships achieve positive community impacts and academic excellence

• Society moves from a mono-culture of scientific knowledge to an ecology of knowledge

• Ivory tower is a relic and the gold standard in higher education is the engaged university

Thank You

Lorlene.Hoyt@tufts.edutalloiresnetwork@tufts.edu

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