Transcript 2010 National Outreach Scholarship Conference

The ESC Outreach and Engagement
Staff Workshop "On the Road" at THE
Ohio State University
October 8, 2013
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
SUSAN B. HARDEN
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA -CHARLOTTE
K AT H E R I N E A . L OV I N G
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
STEPHEN MYERS
MARK MCCANN
H A R M O N Y C OX
T H E O H I O S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y
Setting the Context with a Question
What is going on your campus around professional development for O & E?
(in particular O & E staff?)
Theoretical Framework
Unique Aspects of Staff O&E Roles
 Staff employees are critical to the engagement mission in higher
education as engagement initiatives at research universities are
primarily executed by engagement staff (Weerts & Sandmann, 2008).
 Engagement staff are profiled as “boundary-spanners,” as they
responsible for the interacting with partners outside of the institution
and “community-based problem solvers,” implying that the skills
characterizing the work of engagement staff are largely technical and
hands on, managing the daily tasks involved with advancing the
partnership (Weerts & Sandman, 2008, 2010).
 Engagement staffs also play important roles internally within their
campus engagement efforts (Kiyama, Lee, & Rhoades, 2012).
Weerts & Sandmann quadrant model
Six Disconnects in University-Community
Engagement
1) Professional education (content focus)
2) Service-learning and engaged pedagogies (student
3)
4)
5)
6)
focus)
Institution outreach & community engagement
(non-student focus)
Research & scholarship (faculty focus)
Diversity & inclusivity (internal focus)
Extension (external focus)
An emerging professional identity
1) Deserving of support, recognition &
customized professional development
2) Similar roles, functions & status in the
university structure
3) Shared skills and values
4) Common challenges and strengths
ESC Emerges as a Place for PD
1)The emergence of a professional identity
NOSC 2007
 Formation of the Community Partnerships and Outreach (CPO) Staff
Network at UW-Madison (2008)
 Organizing meeting at NOSC 2009

2)The creation of professional development opportunities
Establishing a preconference at NOSC/Engagement Scholarship
Consortium conference (Outreach & Engagement Staff Workshop)
 Pilot Staff Workshop in 2010 (11)
 Official preconference in 2011 (30), then 50 in 2012
 75 participants in 2013

3)The formation of a national community of practice
Spoke Network listserv
 OESW “On the Road”

OSU Here We Come!
• Idea of Ben Lewis from OSU
(OESW 2012 participant)
• Stephen Myers ESC Campus
Champion at OSU embraced
• Mark McCann organized
• Harmony Cox OSU participant in
the on-campus workshop
• May 10, 2013
• 8:30 – 4:15 p.m.
• 40 in attendance
Outcomes
 On evaluations (27 responses)
 100% of those who responded found the workshop valuable.
 100% of those who responded agreed that the workshop
connected people with each other for support and learning.
 85% of those who responded agreed that the workshop
supported their professional identity.
 On Strategic Planning at OSU for O&E
 Next Steps at OSU