Tag: client engagement
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Beyond the Syllabus: Lessons in Participatory Learning and Communication for Business
The challenge of creating truly beneficial, community-engaged scholarship within the constraints of an academic calendar is significant. Traditional academic research can often instrumentalize community partners in service of university deliverables, losing sight of reciprocal benefits. However, an experimental graduate course in community development at Vanderbilt University centered on the “A People’s Guide to Nashville” participatory…