#Civic collaboratory update#
The system also provides administrative access to reports for faculty/staff as they enter activities and update their profiles within the system.Īccording to Bruckner, “the robust report portal provides both numeric counts of the who, what, when, where, and how of the activities as well as descriptions of the activities including intended outcomes and impacts, issue areas addressed, how community partners were involved in the activity, and what teaching or other high-impact practices were used, just to name a few.” It’s something we haven’t been able to do in the past,” said Bruckner. This connection provides us with one, more complete picture of the community-engaged work or public service. “An important feature of Collaboratory is its ability to connect seemingly isolated activities by organizing them into a set framework that connects the classes, research, creative activity, and/or service components. Anyone can search by activity, individuals, campus units, community organizations, social issues, or populations to learn about their engagement, all without even logging into the system. Through Collaboratory, campus and community members can search and learn about how faculty-student research groups, classes, student organizations, and faculty/staff are partnering with the community. This system gives us access to the information in ways we haven’t had in the past.” “Just as the name suggests, Collaboratory shows how the campus and community work together, or collaborate, to address issues of public concern and to make positive impacts in the community.
CCE manages the Collaboratory database, and faculty/staff are encouraged to begin entering their community engagement and public service activities into the new system.Ĭhristine Bruckner, assistant director for assessment and data management at CCE, is leading the project for Illinois State.
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