Patti Clayton |
From the beginning, my colleagues and I defined ourselves as a learning community of practitioner-scholars dedicated to continual learning and improvement in our community-engaged teaching and learning practice and hoping to contribute in meaningful ways to the growth of associated scholarship. Co-creation—of courses, professional development, infrastructure, partnerships and projects, resource materials, and scholarship—remains my defining modus operandi. The associated identities among all partners as co-learners, co-educators, and co-generators of knowledge are at the very heart of the democratic curricular engagement that I seek to cultivate and support. Let's see what we can create together! A taste of my work (excerpted from a chapter co-authored with 3 student leaders, which, of all my scholarship over 15+ years, remains the piece of which I am most proud): “We understand [curricular engagement] to be most fundamentally a relational process focused on capacity-building and grounded in the principles of servant leadership: all participants are engaged in relationships not only in which all contribute and all benefit but [also] of mutual learning, growth, and change. For us, mutual transformation through a process of co-creation in the context of a mentoring community is a powerful framework: together, we have undertaken—and are still engaged in—a shared developmental journey that has transformed us, our relationships, our fellow students and faculty/staff, and our program itself.... Ultimately, students best undertake a developmental journey when those who support and mentor them are also striving for growth through the same process.” — Whitney, B. C, McClure, J. D., Respet, A. J., & Clayton, P. H. (2007). | |
Verdis Robinson |
Campus Compact is excited to welcome Verdis L. Robinson as Director for Community College Engagement. Robinson joins Campus Compact to launch Community Colleges Commitment (CCC), which was previously housed at the American Association of State Colleges & Universities, as a new Campus Compact initiative. Robinson, who for the last two years served as national director of CCC, will maintain the CCC initiative as part of his portfolio and continue the work of expanding membership, resources, and programming opportunities for community colleges. |
