University and Urban School Partnerships

Abstract

Interviews were conducted with program coordinators of 57 university-school district collaborative programs. Results were analyzed to better understand types of collaboration, school populations served, university divisions involved, longevity of collaborations, size of program staff and volunteers, numbers of students served, perceived goal accomplishment, quality of collaboration, institutional commitment, and help needed. Collaborations were found to be typically long standing, varied in type, serving large numbers of city school students, satisfying to university partners, and perceived as generally achieving their goals. Programs with high collaboration were judged to be more successful. Recommendations for improving university-school collaboration and for further research are described.

School Counseling Intervention Research: A 10-Year Content Analysis of ASCA- and ACA-Affiliated Journals

“…Intervention research necessitates a partnership between practicing school counselors and counselor educators, but to truly advance the knowledge base of school counseling practice, collaboration may need to be established more often at the district or state level. School districts have historically benefited from collaboration with institutes of higher education that provide support in curricular enrichment, community support, school-to-work programs, other school-linked programs, and tutoring or mentoring programs to districts (Kirschenbaum & Reagan, 2011). Lo ´pez Turley and Stevens (2015) suggest that school districts also can benefit from partnerships with institutes of higher education to produce large-scale research studies, to conduct in-depth analysis of large amounts of district data, and to access independently produced research they can use to make informed decisions.…”

Building capacity in urban schools: emphasizing partnerships between counselor education and elementary schools

“…Future researchers can speak more clearly to the efficacy of partnership by specifically evaluating program implementation, not just outcomes. In doing so, counselor educators can respond to the call of past participants by providing research on how to better evaluate partnership program efficacy (Kirschenbaum & Reagan, 2001). Counselor educators can add to the existing research base by empirically evaluating whether partnership programs are capacity-building for the urban school settings.…”

Intersektorale Governance. Neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Staat, Markt und Zivilgesellschaft

“…Ein anderer Punkt ist das soziale Engagement von Hochschulen, mit dem sie auch in weiteren Bereichen wichtige Aufgaben übernehmen -etwa bei der Förderung bestimmter sozialer Gruppen, z.B. durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Schulen (vgl Kirschenbaum & Reagan, 2001). oder durch Service Learning und die Förderung sozialer Aktivitäten von Studierenden.…”