Collaborative Community Engagement: The Work of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement Robert A. and Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize and Lecture

Collaborative Community Engagement: The Work

of the Miami University Center for Community

Engagement

Robert A. and Beverly H. Hackenberg Prize and

Lecture

 

CHAIRS: BLAKE, John (Miami U-OH Ctr for

Community Engagement) and SCHWARTZ, Tammy

(Miami U-OH)

PANELISTS: DARDEN, Dorothy and NEUMEIER,

Bonnie (Community Artists)

 

BLAKE, John (Miami U-OH Ctr for Community Engagement) and SCHWARTZ,

Tammy (Miami U-OH) Collaborative Community Engagement: The Work

of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement. The sustained

partnerships of the Miami University Center for Community Engagement

were born through acts of solidarity between faculty and community leaders

in the Over-the-Rhine People’s Movement— a multi-faceted, grassroots

struggle to protect human rights in a Cincinnati neighborhood marginalized

by systemic discrimination and disinvestment. Miami faculty and community

leaders connected across their positions in academia and in community-

based organizations, engaging in mutual learning and collaboration for

nearly 40 years. With this relationship-building came a vision for what we

call Collaborative Community Engagement, with new models of education for

university students working alongside community members for movement-

building and social change.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.