Please join Stephen Bird and the Adirondack Research Consortium for a panel on Community Academic Collaborations along with Professors Phillip Nathan-Cree, Erik Backus, Liou Xie (Suny Plattsburgh), and Dean Dietrich (Lake Placid) for the Adirondack Research Consortium on Friday March 18, 10-11 am. To register, click on the Register Now button here or below.
Community Based Active Learning and Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Extensive opportunities exist for universities to collaborate on research in conjunction with local communities in the Adirondacks. That said, “action learning” – where researchers and/or students do research and teaching directly embedded in real world problems – can be challenging to navigate. Our panel will focus on the benefits, but also the hurdles that doing this kind of research can bring for communities, students, and researchers using examples from the Adirondacks and the North Country.
· Dr. Liou Xie, SUNY Plattsburgh [Schuyler Falls regional planning]
· Prof. Philip White-Cree, Coordinator of Indigenous Community Support and Outreach. [Community of Akwesasne / Clarkson University]
· Dean Dietrich, Former Chair Lake Placid Development Commission and Prof. Erik Backus, Clarkson [LEED for Communities and Cornell planning partnerships]
· Moderator: Stephen Bird, Clarkson University
