University-Community Collaborations for the Twenty-First Century
Michigan State University Series on Children, Youth, and Families
(Vol. 4)
Garland Reference Library of Social Science
(Vol. 1119)
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY SERIES ON
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
John Paul McKinney, Senior Editor
Lawrence B. Schiamberg, Advisory Editor
Amy B. Slonim and Linda Spence, Associate Editors
Child Maltreatment and Optimal Caregiving in Social Contexts
by Diana Baumrind
Adolescent Parenthood and Education
Exploring Alternative Programs
by Mary Pilat
Adolescents, Cultures, and Conflicts
Growing Up in Contemporary Europe
by Jari-Erik Nurmi
University-Community Collaborations for the Twenty-First Century
Outreach Scholarship for Youth and Families
edited by Richard M. Lerner and Lou Anna K. Simon
First published by Garland Publishing, Inc.
This edition published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 1998 by Richard M. Lerner and Lou Anna K. Simon
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
University-community collaborations for the twenty-first century : outreach scholarship for youth and families / edited by Richard M. Lerner, Lou Anna K.
Simon.
p. cm. (Michigan State University series on children, youth, and families ; vol. 4) (Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 1119)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8153-2445-6 (alk. paper)
1. Community and collegeUnited States. 2. Education, HigherSocial aspectsUnited States. I. Lerner, Richard M. II. Simon, Lou Anna Kimsey. III. Series: Michigan State University series on children, youth, and families ; v. 4. IV. Series: Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1119.
LC238.U547 1998
| 378.1030973dc21 | 97-30385 |
| CIP |
Contents
Lawrence B. Schiamberg
C. Peter Magrath
Richard M. Lerner and Lou Anna K. Simon
James T. Bonnen
Graham B. Spanier and Mary Beth Crowe
Carol A. Cartwright
Judy Jolley Mohraz and Carol Weinberg
Peggy S. Meszaros
Lionel J. Beaulieu, Ann K. Mullis, and Ronald L. Mullis
Ann Higgins-DAlessandro, Celia B. Fisher, and Mimi G. Hamilton
Martha Farrell Erickson and Richard A. Weinberg
Robert B. McCall, Christina J. Groark, Mark S. Strauss, and Carl N. Johnson
Christine M. Todd, Aaron T. Ebata, and Robert Hughes, Jr.
Stephen A. Small and Karen Bogenschneider
Ira Harkavy
Joanne G. Keith, Daniel F. Perkins, Joy C. Greer, Karen McKnight Casey, and Theresa M. Ferrari
Cheryl S. Alexander and Madlyn C. Morreale
Mary Brabeck et al.
Russell G. Mawby
Richard J. Sauer
Lonnie R. Sherrod
Marjorie G. Bardeen and Leon M. Lederman
Jane Quinn
John Engler and Connie Binsfeld
Richard M. Lerner and Lou Anna K. Simon
Outreach Scholarship for Children, Youth, and Families
The publication of Richard M. Lerner and Lou Anna K. Simons volume, University-Community Collaborations for the Twenty-First Century: Outreach Scholarship for Youth and Familiesy signals the continued prominence and success of the Michigan State University Series on Children, Youth, and Families. The authors scholarly work, accompanied by the insightful foreword by Peter Magrath, is a prime example of the creative emphasis on cutting-edge scholarship which the MSU Series representsa focus on issues of social policy, program design and delivery, and evaluationwhich addresses the needs of a diversity of children, youth, families, and communities. In particular, this book promises to be a seminal and landmark volume in rethinking the role of the American university in fostering, enhancing, and building university-community partnerships in the service of children, youth, and families.
Furthermore, the Lerner/Simon volume is a clear illustration of the goals of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families (ICYF). It serves as an example of the relationship of outreach scholarship to essential issues of policy and program development which, in turn, has the potential for enhancing the lives of children, youth, and families in the diverse communities which the Institute serves. Likewise, the publication of this challenging and most impressive volume provides evidence that the MSU Series, initiated by ICYF and well served by the commitment and intellectual leadership of Senior Editor John Paul McKinney with the able guidance of Marie Ellen Larcada of Garland Publishing, serves as a compendium of scholarly work reflecting the very best scholarship aimed at enhancing the life experiences of a diversity of children, youth, and families. As such, both the Lerner/Simon volume and the MSU Series demonstrate the importance and feasibility of the mission of ICYF in integrating research and outreach.
The mission of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at MSU is based on a vision of the nature of a land-grant university as an academic institution with a responsibility for addressing the welfare of children, youth, and families in communities. More specifically, the mission of ICYF is shaped by an ecological perspective that places the life-span development of human beings in the context of the significant settings of human experience, including community, family, work, and peer networks (Lerner et al., 1994; Schiamberg, 1985, 1988). Historically, the ecological perspective has both been associated with, and a guiding frame for, colleges of home economics or, as they are more recently termed, colleges of human development, human ecology, or family and consumer sciences (Miller & Lerner, 1994). Using the ecology of human development as a conceptual framework, the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families continues to develop programs that integrate the critical notion of development in context with the attempt, indeed the necessity, of creating connections between such scholarship and social policy, program design, delivery, and evaluation.
The MSU Series is a unique collection of books, designed to provide a vehicle for the publication and transmission of research/outreach efforts characterized by the collaborative relationship (and potential relationship) between university expertise and the community. Lerner and Simons book represents the careful and visionary thinking of authors who have worked, first hand, with university-community partnerships and collaborations which reflect both successful and best practice efforts in the service of enhancing the life prospects of children, youth, and families in community settings. As universities begin to respond to continuing social pressures to apply their resources to address a variety of critical social problems, there is a compelling need for such careful scholarship and for best practice in helping universities and communities to frame joint programs addressing the needs of the diverse groups of children and families that both serve. The Michigan State University Series on Children, Youth, and Families is, itself, an example of the outreach scholarship which reflects the contextual and practical policy focus of the ICYF research program. The MSU Series publishes reference and professional books, including monographs and edited volumes, which appeal to a wide audience in communities as well as in universities, including such constituencies as scholars, practitioners, service deliverers, child and family advocates, business leaders, and policymakers. As illustrated by the superb scholarly effort of Lerner and Simon, the MSU Series has substantial import and appeal to these constituencies primarily because of its focus on the integration of research and outreach and, as well, an emphasis on collaborative relationships between universities and communities.
