Collaboration to Institutionalize High-Impact Practices in the Liberal Arts - Community-Based Pedagogies Projects

Collaboration to Institutionalize High-Impact Practices in the Liberal Arts

Funder: Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

Total Award: $133,000 (awarded February 2023)

Program Type: Collaborative, faculty- and staff-led project funding

Geographic Scope: ACM member colleges

Focus Areas:

Institutionalizing community-based pedagogies at liberal arts colleges

Identifying best practices for high-impact teaching in the liberal arts

Understanding how to institutionalize these practices to maximize student learning

Community-based learning and research

Initiative Structure (Three Phases)

Phase 1: Inventory and assessment

ACM colleges inventoried undergraduate research, community-based learning, and community-based research activities

Faculty survey on perceptions of high-impact practices

Workshop for faculty and staff to discuss current status and aspirations

Phase 2: Collaborative project funding

October 2022: Launch of project funding phase

Invitation to faculty and staff for project ideas

Steering committee review and selection of proposals

9 projects funded

Phase 3: Dissemination

2024: Summative conference for faculty

Share curricular and structural outcomes

Set strategies for institutionalizing practices across ACM colleges

Disseminate findings broadly

Funded Projects (9 total)

1. The Learning Stance: Expanding Community-Based Learning Pedagogies across the Student Experience (Beloit College) - Leader: Donna Oliver - $14,976

2. Establishing a Prison Learning Initiative at Coe College (Coe College) - Leader: Gina Hausknecht - $15,350

3. Leveraging the Expertise of Registrars: Building an Interdepartmental Network to Support Community Engaged Learning in the ACM (Grinnell College) - Leaders: Susan Sanning, Catherine Ashton - $10,000

4. Neighbors Supporting Neighbors: Building Institutional Capacity for Community-Based Learning at Knox and Monmouth Colleges (Knox and Monmouth Colleges) - Leaders: Lori Walters-Kramer, Kathleen Ridlon - $18,280

5. Assets as Pedagogy: Waukegan School District and Lake Forest College Teacher and Community Project (Lake Forest College) - Leader: Desmond Odugu - $13,250

6. Beyond Access: Exploring Inter-Departmental Partnership in Higher Education and Career Opportunities- Legacy Barber College and Lake Forest College (Lake Forest College) - Leader: Desmond Odugu - $12,500

7. Serve to Learn: Lake County Service-Learning Directory and Catalogue of Resources Project (Lake Forest College) - Leader: Dawn Abt-Perkins - $20,000

8. Mapping a Course to Institutionalize Community-Based Learning at Lawrence (Lawrence University) - Leader: Deanna Donohoue - $7,910

9. From Framework to Proof of Concept: Developing Support for a Director of Community-Based Learning at Luther College (Luther College) - Leader: Kate Elliott - $14,627

Use of Funds

• Support resources to initiate, conduct, disseminate, and help institutionalize activities and results
• Faculty and staff project implementation
• Research and assessment activities
• Institutional capacity building