Creating a community of practice among college campus food pantry directors in Michigan

Price, Carmel E.; Sampson, Natalie; Reppond, H. A.; Thomas-Brown, Karen; Camp, Jessica K.

doi:10.1080/10705422.2019.1580655

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“…Summit surveys indicated that pantry practitioners were eager to advance their current programmatic and advocacy actions and appreciated learning new strategies to implement on their respective campuses. Lastly, the MCCFPS appeared to lead to social change, including the formation of a regional community of practice (Price et al, 2019;Lave & Wegner, 1991;Wenger, 2000), an exchange of best institutional practices among campus pantries, and inspiration for federal policy on food access for college students. Still, as indicated in the post-survey, the day's events did not allow for a full discussion or shared vision on possible policy strategies to address food insecurity on campuses, which was integrated into the 2017 MCCFPS.…”

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“…Again, as a team of scholars, we are not involved in the day-to-day operations of pantry work. Although survey feedback from the 2016 MCCFPS and informal feedback after the 2018 MCCFPS suggest participants value hearing about and engaging in research, their priority is day-to-day management, often with limited resources (Reppond et al, 2018;Price et al, 2019). Thus, we have stepped back in our leadership roles in implementing the 2017 and 2018 MCCFPSs, providing more space to focus on practice rather than research at these events.…”

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“…The College and University Pantries (CUP) research team emerged in 2014 after several researchers at University of Michigan-Dearborn came together to understand food insecurity on their own campus, where a food pantry opened in 2012. Our interdisciplinary team has since pursued regional and national research to examine how campus pantries address student food insecurity ( Price et al, 2019;Reppond et al, 2018). The MCCFPS emerged from this research program at a time when nationwide attention to this social issue was rapidly mounting, particularly in response to national survey findings from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab (now the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice) (Goldrick-Rab, Broton, & Eisenberg, 2015;Goldrick-Rab, Richardson, et al, 2018).…”

Section: Background: Addressing Food Insecurity On Campusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Feminist action research in response to food insecurity among college students

Sampson

Price²,

Reppond³

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Action Research

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Feminist action research can instigate community, organizational, and policy changes to address social issues. We describe how we considered inclusion, participation, action, social change, and researcher reflexivity, as well as researcher positionality, in design and implementation of the 2016 Michigan College Campuses Food Pantry Summit. Specifically, in this case study, we describe ways we used these principles to plan this event around concept mapping, an interactive, collaborative research approach. Our event led to the formation of a regional community of practitioners, enabled an exchange of institutional best practices among campus pantries, and informed federal policy on food access for college students.

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Feminist action research in response to food insecurity among college students

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Price²,

Reppond³

et al. 2020

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“…Similarly, if the community's purposes (and individuals' likely rationale for participating) are altruistic, then members' other-centric mindset could translate into openness toward cooperating with external parties. As an example, Price et al (2019) examined a CoP of campus food pantry directors whose members aimed to combat hunger and food insecurity on their respective college campuses. Members of the community engaged with a wide range of external partners ranging from domestic violence shelters to the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the students they aimed to serve received appropriate aid with all aspects of their day-to-day struggles.…”

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From cooperation to competition: an interaction-based contingency theory of communities of practice

Britt

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework that explains the roles and viability of both cooperation and competition as they emerge in communities of practice. Although the usefulness of cooperation in communities of practice is well-understood, few studies have considered the role of internal competition, and those that have generally only explored cases in which antagonistic behavior led to the community’s collapse. Design/methodology/approach A contingency theory of communities of practice is developed based on the manifestations of members’ participation. Findings This theory demonstrates the root causes of fracturing and also provides a foundation for studying communities of practice that have previously defied explanation. Research limitations/implications This manuscript explains the potential role and limitations of internal competition in communities of practice, as well as the emergence of subgroups based on differing preferences for cooperation and/or competition. Future research should examine the manifestation and ramifications of such individual differences between community members. Practical implications Practitioners can use this theoretical framework to assess communities of practice that they oversee, diagnose potential pitfalls and take corrective action to mitigate potentially toxic influences or inject additional motivating forces that would sustain the community. Originality/value This theoretical framework diverges from previous assumptions that internal competition is necessarily toxic for communities of practice, showing the value that it may offer in some contexts.

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“…To address student hunger, colleges and universities across the United States developed food pantries. Because campus pantries are often created in response to concerns on their respective campuses, they are siloed and function separately (Price, Sampson, et al, 2019). Campus food pantry directors and staff report deep concerns for student success and show interest in working across institutions to solve problems and develop a community of best practices with interest in policy changes to support food insecure students (Price, Watters, et al, 2020;Reppond et al, 2018;Sampson et al, 2020).…”

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More Than Just Hard Work: Educational Policies to Facilitate Economic Mobility

Williams

Reppond

2020

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-standing class-based inequities in education and as a result highlighted the role of structural supports (e.g., food, stable housing, income) promoting economic opportunity. Although social class mobility is often attributed to perceptions of hard work, science does not support these dominant narratives. Instead, access to quality education and structural supports correlate with economic uplift. By eliminating structural barriers to low-income college students’ degree completion and coordinating efforts to assist low-income students, policymakers can restore the promise of economic mobility through education. This article focuses on the psychological and behavioral science that should inform higher education policy. As the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, a structure-based, scientific approach to facilitate equal opportunity in higher education is vital to spurring greater economic mobility and avoiding further entrenchment of economic inequalities.

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Creating a community of practice among college campus food pantry directors in Michigan

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Feminist action research in response to food insecurity among college students

Feminist action research in response to food insecurity among college students

From cooperation to competition: an interaction-based contingency theory of communities of practice

More Than Just Hard Work: Educational Policies to Facilitate Economic Mobility

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