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Learning from Difference: The Potentially Transforming Experience of Community-University Collaboration

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; medewar{at}umich.edu

Claudia B. Isaac

University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning; cisaac{at}unm.edu

The University of Michigan's Detroit Community Outreach Partnership Center generates faculty-student teams who work on community development projects with Detroit's community organizations. Projects are designed to enrich students' experiential learning in community settings and to help build communities' organizational capacity. This relationship has exposed a culture clash between universities and community organizations in at least three major areas: the style of work, social justice understanding, and power relations. Further, although the COPC is committed to a community-driven planning model, the nature of the community-university relationship tends to push the work toward a consultant-driven model. Improving community-university collaboration will require restructuring of university pedagogy.

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