Promoting Collaborative Partnerships
Ellen Percy Kraly,
Director, Upstate Institute
Colgate University
Madison County Department of Health
9 April 2008
This afternoons conversation is about…
Promoting
Collaborative
Partnerships
Upstate Institute at Colgate University
The mission of the Upstate Institute
The mission of the Institute is to create linkages
between Colgate University and the regional
community to engage students, faculty, staff and
residents in research and a reciprocal transfer of
knowledge that will enhance the economic, social
and cultural capacity of the area and sustain the
environment. These projects provide a model of
community collaboration and civic engagement
for our students and within higher
education. The Institute values scholarly
collaboration as a way to support the region.
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Upstate Institute – a long tradition,
a recent history
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Initiatives in Hamilton, New York
COVE 2001
Inventory of faculty interest: our most valuable resource!
Utica Field School summer 2003
UI launched Spring of 2004
Formal launch by Senator Hillary Clinton in April 2004
Strategic planning and organizational structure in
summer of 2004
• Field School launched in summer of 2004
• Strategic Planning university wide
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Upstate Institute strategies:
1. Research concerning the upstate New York
region
2. Community-based research
3. Skills for community development
4. Create opportunities for dialogue on issues
concerning the region;
5. Build capacity within the region.
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1. Promote scholarship on the region
1. The Upstate Institute supports and promotes faculty and
student research on the region and creates a scholarly
community for those interested in Upstate New York.
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Faculty Research Symposium
Saturday, April 26, Ho Interdisciplinary Sciences
Center
Charles Pete Banner-Haley, Associate Professor History/African American
Studies
Advancing the Community: An Overview of African American
Networks in Upstate New York, 1890-1990
Frank Frey, Assistant Professor of Biology
Tim McCay, Associate Professor Biology
Natural History Museum of the Chenango Valley – Phase I
Meika Loe, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
and Women's Studies Program
How do community-based institutions and individuals living in Albany
and Hamilton, NY, create support around aging?
William B. Meyer, Visiting Lecturer in Geography
Syracuse Salt: The Life and Times of a Natural Resource
William H. Peck, Department of Geology
Carbon Isotopes of Historical Maple Syrup Collections: A Unique
Record of Long-Term Sugar Bush Health
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2. Community Based Research
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2. Community Based Research
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UI Summer Field School
Summer Field School
Students work with a community organization 35 hours per week for 10
weeks
– Skill development seminar series
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Field School Curriculum
Strategic planning
Grant writing
Panel of regional journalists
Panel of local business owners
Defining poverty in Madison County
Local farm tour
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3. Skill development: Service learning courses
Co-curricular seminars
The VITA program
Student Philanthropy Council
Upstate Law Project
Legal Aid Services of Mid-New York
Social Security claims for disabled children
Preparation of bankruptcy interviews and pleads
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4. Promote dialogue on regional issues
Facilitate conversation on regional issues
Educate students and campus community
about benefits of community collaboration
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5. Contribute to building capacity in the region
Strategic planning
Grantsmanship
Assessment
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Collaboration
 Identify:
Participants
partnerships
and stakeholders
And invite these folks to the table!
 Learn about each other
 and celebrate diversity!
 Develop common connections to the task
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Partnerships!
1. Reciprocity
2. Respect
3. Realistic
4. Reflective
5. Research
6. Routine
7. Radar
8. Review
9. Reward
10.Recharge
Relationships!
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Promoting…Promotion
Reflect on existing relationships
Build from strengths
Identify new opportunities for
connections
Upstate Institute at Colgate University
Promoting…Promotion
Reflect on existing relationships
Build from strengths
Identify new opportunities for connections
Chuck Fluharty, Rural Policy Research Institute, has
suggested that community leaders in rural areas:
‘…combine urban thinking with rural
sustainability, and New York is a great place to
start!’
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So…. If today’s conversations is about:
Promoting
Collaborative
Partnerships
Upstate Institute at Colgate University
“Nothing will ever be accomplished if all
possible objections must first be
overcome”
Samuel Johnson
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“Do what you can, with what you have,
where your are”
Theodore Roosevelt
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“Let’s not tinker around the edges!”
Chuck Fluharty
Rural Policy
Research Institute
Upstate Institute at Colgate University
Today’s conversations are about:
Promoting
Collaborative
Partnerships
… and perhaps, possibly
… some plans and solutions
… creative experimentation
… the middle, not at the edges!
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