ATTENTION: FACULTY, ACADEMIC STAFF, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

May 14, 2025
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Zoom

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Participants in this interactive webinar will learn about and use parts of the hot-off-the-presses Transformational Relationship Evaluation Scale (TRES) III Reflection Framework, which supports community-campus partners in examining dynamics of their partnership (e.g., power sharing, decision-making), identifying and prioritizing desired enhancements that result, and generating actionable learning to improve partnership practice accordingly. Research (Kniffin et al., 2023) documents that partners who have used the framework have an enhanced commitment to and clarity around partnerships; collaborators have brought in new partners, improved communications, and set goals for refining their work. TRES is applicable across the range of community-campus partnership activities (e.g., community-engaged learning and research, extension projects, institutional assessment).

Bringing partners together for critical reflection on their partnerships is important in nurturing the co-creative relationships and processes that undergird transformative collaborative and meaningful change. Facilitators will provide an overview of the conceptual frameworks underlying TRES, walk participants through the framework, and summarize evidence of its impact on partnerships (reviewing data from research on an earlier version of the tool). Participants will then use excerpts from the framework and debrief that experience – co-generating possibilities and challenges for using it across multiple contexts. 

Please feel free to invite members of the broader community with whom you partner. 

Facilitators

Robert G. Bringle

Robert G. Bringle, Ph.D., Phil.D.
Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies
Indiana University Indianapolis Center for Service and Learning

BIO

Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija

Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Education Policy Initiative
Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan

BIO

Patti H. Clayton

Patti H. Clayton, Ph.D.
Independent Consultant
PHC Ventures

BIO

Lori E. Kniffin

Lori E. Kniffin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Leadership Programs
Incoming Director of Civic Learning and Engagement
Fort Hays State University

BIO


TRES Co-Creators (not presenting)

Haden M. Botkin

Haden M. Botkin, M.S.
Doctoral candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

BIO

Mary F. Price

Mary F. Price, Ph.D.
Founding Director for Teaching and Learning
The Forum on Education Abroad

BIO


Reference

Kniffin, L. E., Clayton, P. H., Camo-Biogradlija, J., Price, M., F., Bringle, R. G., & Botkin, H. M. (2023). Using a critical reflection framework to deepen community-campus relationships and partnerships: A multi-institutional mixed-methods study. International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. 11(1). Article 13. https://doi.org/10.37333/001c.91729

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