Promoting Collaborative Partnerships
Ellen Percy Kraly, Director, Upstate Institute
Colgate University
Madison County Department of Health
9 April 2008
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This afternoons conversation is about…
Promoting Collaborative Partnerships
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The mission of the Upstate Institute
The mission of the Institute is to create linkages between Colgate University and the regional community to engage students, faculty, staff and residents in research and a reciprocal transfer of knowledge that will enhance the economic, social and cultural capacity of the area and sustain the environment. These projects provide a model of community collaboration and civic engagement for our students and within higher education. The Institute values scholarly collaboration as a way to support the region.
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Upstate Institute – a long tradition, a recent history
• Initiatives in Hamilton, New York• COVE 2001• Inventory of faculty interest: our most
valuable resource!• Utica Field School summer 2003• UI launched Spring of 2004• Formal launch by Senator Hillary Clinton
in April 2004• Strategic planning and organizational
structure in summer of 2004• Field School launched in summer of 2004• Strategic Planning university wide
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Upstate Institute strategies:
1.Research concerning the upstate New York region
2.Community-based research3.Skills for community development4. Create opportunities for dialogue
on issues concerning the region;5. Build capacity within the region.
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1. Promote scholarship on the region
1. The Upstate Institute supports and promotes faculty and student research on the region and creates a scholarly community for those interested in Upstate New York.
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Faculty Research SymposiumSaturday, April 26, Ho Interdisciplinary Sciences Center
Charles Pete Banner-Haley, Associate Professor History/African American Studies
Advancing the Community: An Overview of African American Networks in Upstate New York, 1890-1990
Frank Frey, Assistant Professor of BiologyTim McCay, Associate Professor Biology
Natural History Museum of the Chenango Valley – Phase I
Meika Loe, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Women's Studies Program
How do community-based institutions and individuals living in Albany and Hamilton, NY, create support around aging?
William B. Meyer, Visiting Lecturer in Geography Syracuse Salt: The Life and Times of a Natural Resource
William H. Peck, Department of Geology Carbon Isotopes of Historical Maple Syrup Collections: A
Unique Record of Long-Term Sugar Bush Health
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2. Community Based Research
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2. Community Based Research
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UI Summer Field School
Summer Field SchoolStudents work with a community organization 35 hours
per week for 10 weeks– Skill development seminar series
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Field School Curriculum
Strategic planningGrant writingPanel of regional journalistsPanel of local business ownersDefining poverty in Madison CountyLocal farm tour
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The VITA programStudent Philanthropy CouncilUpstate Law Project
Legal Aid Services of Mid-New YorkSocial Security claims for disabled childrenPreparation of bankruptcy interviews and pleads
3. Skill development: Service learning courses Co-curricular seminars
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4. Promote dialogue on regional issues
Facilitate conversation on regional issuesEducate students and campus community about benefits of community collaboration
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5. Contribute to building capacity in the region
Strategic planning GrantsmanshipAssessment
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Collaboration
Identify:Participants
partnershipsand stakeholders
And invite these folks to the table!
Learn about each otherand celebrate diversity!Develop common connections to
the task
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Partnerships!
1. Reciprocity2. Respect3. Realistic4. Reflective5. Research6. Routine7. Radar8. Review9. Reward10.Recharge
Relationships!
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Promoting…Promotion
Reflect on existing relationships
Build from strengthsIdentify new opportunities
for connections
Upstate Institute at Colgate University
Promoting…Promotion
Reflect on existing relationships
Build from strengths
Identify new opportunities for connections
Chuck Fluharty, Rural Policy Research Institute, has suggested that community leaders in rural areas:
‘…combine urban thinking with rural sustainability, and New York is a great place to start!’
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So…. If today’s conversations is about:
PromotingCollaborative Partnerships
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“Nothing will ever be accomplished if all possible objections must first be overcome”
Samuel Johnson
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where your are”
Theodore Roosevelt
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“Let’s not tinker around the edges!”
Chuck FluhartyRural Policy Research Institute
Upstate Institute at Colgate University
Today’s conversations are about:
PromotingCollaborative Partnerships… and perhaps, possibly … some plans and solutions… creative experimentation… the middle, not at the
edges!