Georgiana Chevry serves as an AmeriCorps member with Campus Compact VISTA at a project hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Tell us a bit about your project! Massachusetts is the first state to address homelessness and housing insecurity among college students as a matter of intentional, state-level public policy. Our goal is to create a national model of evidence-informed interventions and best practices to help students move from crisis to opportunity, self-sufficiency, and dignity. The Massachusetts Department of Higher Education’s Basic Needs Security Initiative is the result of various campus housing pilots with a deliberate focus on the homeless and housing insecurity needs of unaccompanied and homeless college students. This initiative’s work is inclusive of the faculty, staff, and administration who are committed to producing graduates who exemplify the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education’s mission “ to ensure that Massachusetts residents have the opportunity to benefit from a higher education that enriches their lives and advances their contributions…

Co-Edited By Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton; Lynn Rollins, Case Western Reserve University; and Sarah Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology This is the seventh in a series of posts leading up to a Special Session at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2021 conference on July 27, 2021 entitled At the Crossroads of Community Engagement, Ethics, Liberal Education, and Social Responsibility:  Community engaged engineering education challenges and opportunities in light of COVID-19.  These posts are intended to introduce the panelists of the special session and provide a basis for discussion at the conference and beyond.  The co-editors of these blogs and the panelists represent different perspectives within engineering community-based global learning endeavors and community/university partnerships. Previous blog posts are available here: (1) Rollins, Bohrer, Brownell/June 2021; (2) Oakes/June 2021; (3) Manghnani, Nilov/June 2021; (4) Bohrer, Rollins, Brownell/June 2021; (5) Griffin, Brownell/July 2021 In this post, we explore how power and privilege factor into our work with Waleska Crowe from…

Co-Edited By Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton; Lynn Rollins, Case Western Reserve University; and Sarah Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology This is the fifth in a series of posts leading up to a Special Session at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2021 conference on July 27, 2021 entitled At the Crossroads of Community Engagement, Ethics, Liberal Education, and Social Responsibility:  Community engaged engineering education challenges and opportunities in light of COVID-19.  These posts are intended to introduce the panelists of the special session and provide a basis for discussion at the conference and beyond.  The co-editors of these blogs and the panelists represent different perspectives within engineering community-based global learning endeavors and community/university partnerships. Previous blog posts are available here: (1) Rollins, Bohrer, Brownell/June 2021; (2) Oakes/June 2021; (3) Manghnani, Nilov/June 2021; (4) Bohrer, Rollins, Brownell/June 2021. In this post, we discuss tools for ethical community engagement with Dr. Tunya Griffin, who has experienced community engaged work from a…