Learning outcomes and other evaluation strategies

[Lara Campbell <lcampbel@sfu.ca>]

Dear all:

Perhaps another measuring initiative that we need to be worried about, below: this time, focusing on 'impact measures' for community engagement. Does anyone remember SFU making evaluation of community engagement part of the 'engaged' university stragegy (ie: the last sentence)?
Best,
Lara

Developing SFU's First Community Engagement Strategy:  Provide your Input
March 5, 2013 9 am to 11 am noon, Halpern Centre 114, SFU Burnaby

Join a facilitated dialogue with SFU President Andrew Petter and SFU Vice-President of External, Philip Steenkamp, and other special guests. How can we build on SFU’s strengths, relationships, and successes and support community engagement activities across the university?  How can we reduce obstacles for the community to access SFU’s expertise and resources and support respectful, reciprocal relationships with our communities? How will we know if we have been successful? How will our communities know?

Defining and Measuring Community-University Engagement Impact: What SFU can learn from the UK experience 
March 8, 2013 10:30 am to 12 noon, Halpern Centre 114, SFU Burnaby

Hosted by Sophie Duncan and Paul Manners, UK National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (www.publicengagement.ac.uk) 

With the launch of a new Community Engagement Strategy, it will be of critical importance to be able to accurately assess the impacts of community engagement activities.  This workshop will address the topic of how to define and measure university-community engagement through two lenses: 

* Evaluation: what do we know about effective ways of capturing the impact of engagement projects through the design of appropriate evaluation strategies? 
* Monitoring impact at an institutional/system level: what has been learned in the UK about how institutions can set Key Performance Indicators for engagement activity; and what steps are UK research funders taking to build impact assessment into the new research assessment framework?

Participants will be invited to apply these insights to the challenges of developing appropriate impact measures for SFU’s engagement strategy .





Lara Campbell
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby BC V5A 1S6
lcampbel@sfu.ca