The Office of Community Engagement creates a coordinated, strategic approach to professional development and corporate education; neighborhood, school, and family partnerships; volunteerism and service; and a campus wide culture of engagement.
Publications, presentations, curriculum, creative activities, program evaluations, and other forms of scholarship that have been completed by staff within the Office of Community Engagement at IUPUI.
This case study highlights the methodological and practical implications of modifying an investigation with community partners to fit an online format. Research interactions took place between November 2020 and June 2021, ...
Warren Central High School in collaboration with Arts for Learning explored design thinking, a creative and collaborative process that is user-centered and solution-focused to engage students in the process of designing ...
Unknown author(Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center and IUPUI Office of Community Engagement, 2020-07)
From its inception, the Full-Service Community Schools project with Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center and five Indianapolis Public Schools of the Near-Westside has focused on the development of an infrastructure framework to ...
Grim, Jim(Partnership Press, Children's Aid Society, New York City, 2015-11)
Adaptive leadership takes on particular importance when it comes to heading Community Schools. The sharing of leadership and decision-making with community partners can be a daunting undertaking – even for some seasoned ...
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis worked with the residents and leadership of three neighborhoods adjacent to the campus to reopen the closed George Washington High School. The resulting partnership has ...
This framework outlines five steps based on best practices and strategies to enhance parent and family engagement in out-of-school time programming observed at AYS program locations in MSD Decatur Township, Spring Semester ...
Education Action Team, Early Intervention Planning Council(MCCY, 2021-01)
Our children spend a significant amount of time in school – and success in school sets the foundation for successful careers and contribution to our communities. However, in recent decades, we have seen what the disinvestment ...
After five years with no public schools in their community, residents and neighborhood organizations of the Near Westside of Indianapolis advocated for the opening of George Washington Community High School (GWCHS). As a ...
Grim, Jim; Officer, Starla(Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-05)
A meandering White River separates the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus from the neighborhoods of Stringtown, Hawthorne and Haughville that make up the community of ...
Medina, Monica; Cosby, Gayle; Grim, Jim(Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2019-05-14)
Improving performance in an environment often tested by intermingled social problems, including poverty, racial isolation, cultural clashes between teachers and students, and school funding disparities requires authentic, ...
Grim, Jim; Medina, Monica A.; Oglesby, Nicole Y.(Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-09)
Connecting the dots and engaging in community partnerships is nothing new to Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). For decades, IUPUI has played an integral role in supporting urban schools and ...
Demand for school reform, particularly urban schools labeled as “failing,” requires a community engagement strategy centered on intermingled social problems: poverty, racial isolation and discrimination, cultural clashes, ...
Medina, Monica; Cosby, Gayle; Grim, Jim(Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Special Edition Prospectus, 2020)
Improving performance in an environment often tested by intermingled social problems, including poverty, racial isolation, cultural clashes between teachers and students, and school funding disparities requires authentic, ...
Given the mounting call for academic achievement gains in America's public schools—particularly urban schools labeled “failing”—the need for community engagement to tackle a host of underlying social challenges warrants ...
Grim, Jim; Medina, Monica; Short, Angela; Garvey, Jackie; Malone, LaTasha; Daugherty, Lindsey(Midwest Center for University-Assisted Community Schools, IUPUI, Indiana Partnerships Center, 2011-09)
Discussion of public school reform draws attention to a typically overlooked essential of academic success: family and community engagement. Any serious reform cannot ignore authentic family/school/community engagement as ...
Grim, Jim; Medina, Monica; Officer, Starla(Center for Service and Learning, IUPUI, 2011)
In 2000, the Indianapolis Near-Westside welcomed the reopening of George Washington High School as George Washington Community School. The school had closed in 1995. This document draws on the decade of lessons and is ...
Grim, Jim; Medina, Monica(Partnership Press, Children's Aid Society, New York City, 2016)
School community partnerships provide a bedrock of stability and continuity in the midst of a tsunami of educational change on the Near Westside of Indianapolis. Central to the firmly imbedded partnerships is George ...
A deficit narrative of academic success in low-performing schools is articulated in cultural norms set by those who fail to understand how poverty and racial inequality manifests through daily interactions, beliefs, and ...