{"id":997,"date":"2015-02-09T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfice.wordpress.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2015-02-09T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:34:35","slug":"liz-weavers-lessons-learned-in-campus-community-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/2015\/liz-weavers-lessons-learned-in-campus-community-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Weaver\u2019s lessons learned in campus community partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_998\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgp1975-e1423513773190.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-998 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgp1975-e1423513773190.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Volunteer Canada recognizes Liz Weaver for her contributions to volunteerism in Canada at the Healthy, Resilient Communities Conference May 2014. \" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgp1975-e1423513773190.jpg 4348w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgp1975-e1423513773190-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgp1975-e1423513773190-360x212.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Canada recognizes Liz Weaver for her contributions to volunteerism in Canada at the Healthy, Resilient Communities Conference May 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Campus community research partnerships are exciting and challenging, says Liz Weaver, Vice-President of <a href=\"http:\/\/tamarackcommunity.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamarack<\/a>. For the last three years, Liz also co-led the poverty reduction hub of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under her co-leadership, the hub researched big issues in poverty, including living wage, the stigma of poverty and access to post-secondary education. Now, Liz is leaving CFICE to take on a new role at Tamarak, directing its <a href=\"http:\/\/tamarackcommunity.ca\/learn.html\" target=\"_blank\">Learning Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All at CFICE would like to thank Liz for her wonderful work with the poverty hub, and congratulate her on her new position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI particularly appreciated the way Liz promoted CFICE, her generosity sharing her knowledge, and her commitment to improving the infrastructure for community campus partners to progress together towards a more just and equitable society,\u201d\u00a0says Geri Briggs, co-manager of CFICE and director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityservicelearning.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiz really understood the pressures and goals of campuses, while being deeply rooted in the community. That meant she was able to effectively translate the needs of campuses to community groups and facilitate strong relationships,\u201d says Karen Schwartz, Associate Dean of Research &amp; Graduate Affairs, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University. \u201cLiz is a great problem solver \u2013 she\u2019s very clear-thinking and gets to the root of an issue right away,\u201d adds Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Weaver shared her parting insights on working in campus community partnerships:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA lot of this work is based on fragile relationships, because people come and go,\u201d Liz explains. \u201cYou have to dive deeper than just one-to-one connections and <strong>create resilient relationships<\/strong> that span broader communities.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Academics and students tend to work on an <strong>eight-month calendar<\/strong>, which presents challenges for community organizations that work year-round, she says. \u201cThere\u2019s also more <strong>bureaucracy <\/strong>within large institutions like universities, so we have to figure out how to navigate the system,\u201d she adds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>More than anything, it\u2019s challenging for stakeholders to <strong>carve out the time<\/strong> for campus-community partnerships. \u201cEverybody does this off the side of their desks, and despite best intentions, these partnerships often compete with all of our other priorities,\u201d says Liz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s also critical to realize that campus and community have <strong>different goals<\/strong>, says Liz. Campus partners emphasize teaching, learning and discussion, while community partners focus on engagement and policy change. \u00a0\u201cThey aren\u2019t necessarily competing; they can be complementary agendas,\u201d says Liz. \u201cBut they <em>are <\/em>different agendas, and it\u2019s vital to recognize those differences and <strong>find the mutuality of purpose<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving forward, Liz sees a trend in community work, with <strong>more activity at the cross-community level<\/strong>, as opposed to individual program and services. \u00a0\u201cIn many communities, <strong>we reinvent the wheel<\/strong> over and over and over again. So, Tamarack is trying to figure out strategies for the co-generation of knowledge for social change,\u201d she says. Liz believes campus-community partnerships are an intriguing opportunity to research the systematic issues in poverty and key identify barriers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus community research partnerships are exciting and challenging, says Liz Weaver, Vice-President of Tamarack. For the last three years, Liz also co-led the poverty reduction hub of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement, or CFICE. 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