{"id":160,"date":"2013-09-12T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2014-03-11T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T02:58:00","slug":"orser-center-planning-year-2012-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Orser Center Planning Year 2012-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orser Center Strategic Planning Sub-Committee Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Nicole King, Denise Meringolo, Ed Orser, Linda Shopes, Michelle Stefano<\/p>\n

1. Revised mission statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Orser Center at UMBC fosters innovative collaborations among scholars, students, and local community organizations. The Center seeks to put humanities research to work\u00a0as a creative response to\u00a0problems, challenges, and issues identified\u00a0by communities in the greater Baltimore region.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. The Center’s main goals and strategies to achieve them:<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOAL 1:<\/strong> Create and sustain working relationships between the university and communities in the greater Baltimore region.<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by further developing the advisory committee to include more academic and administrative units on campus and community partners<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by organizing two open public events annually that highlight the research and knowledge that emerges from place-based community work (ideally held in the community rather than UMBC)<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by organizing internal community building and networking events at UMBC focused on place-based community work in the greater Baltimore region<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by funding fellowships for student internships to enable community-based programs\/projects to continue beyond the semester (two application cycles per year \u2013 must publicly present final work) \u2013 will potentially begin in 2014-2015 academic year<\/em><\/p>\n

GOAL 2:<\/strong> Fostering a critical understanding of the connections among people, places, institutions, and cultures as well as practicing and promoting shared authority and inquiry during research and community engagement activities.<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 document and promote opportunities for students to engage in place-based learning and faculty to build place-based teaching\/research<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 use forthcoming Orser Center space in the Fine Arts building for a library of place-based books and resources and a list of community contacts and opportunities for faculty and students<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 develop a sub-committee to work with the director on increasing the quality and visibility of the Orser Center blog and develop a plan for a social media presence.<\/p>\n

GOAL 3: <\/strong>Develop a five-year plan to grow the endowment (2013-2018)<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the director is working with the Office of Institutional Advancement on a letter to all contributors to the endowment summarizing the Orser Center\u2019s activities and goals developed over the past three years.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 develop a sub-committee focused on developing specific strategies to grow the endowment in 2013-2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orser Center Strategic Planning Sub-Committee Report Nicole King, Denise Meringolo, Ed Orser, Linda Shopes, Michelle Stefano 1. Revised mission statement: The Orser Center at UMBC fosters innovative collaborations among scholars, students, and local community organizations. The Center seeks to put … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}