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Browsing by Author "Armstrong, Jessica"

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    Bridging Brown County: Captivating Social Capital as a Means to Community Change
    (University of Minnesota. Extension, 2011) Rasmussen, Catherine; Armstrong, Jessica; Chazdon, Scott
    As our communities strive to support community change efforts for survival and vitality, the importance of social capital has become evident in leadership development. Many researchers and practitioners realize that tapping into the inherent power of relationships and social networks is crucial. This paper provides an overview of the design and evaluation of Bridging Brown County, a countywide community leadership development program that was explicitly designed to build social capital as well as human capital. By integrating social and human capital constructs into the program design, impacts have been measured in domains of other community capitals. The results of the impact study provide insight into developing and measuring the success of community leadership programs.
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    Impacts of a Bridging Cohort Leadership Program: Network Brown County
    (St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2011-10) Rasmussen, Catherine; Armstrong, Jessica; Chazdon, Scott
    Network Brown County is a leadership education program that brings together groups of 15-20 Brown County residents of diverse backgrounds for nine one-day sessions. Participants meet new people, discover new places in the county, broaden their knowledge of community resources, and increase understanding of issues facing the county. To date, six annual cohorts have completed the program. This study sought to determine participant-identified outcome success and impact of Network Brown County using the Community Capitals Framework, and to measure impacts using participants, as well as community stakeholders, as data sources.
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    Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development Using the Community Capitals Framework
    (St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2009-10) Rasmussen, Catherine; Armstrong, Jessica; Chazdon, Scott
    This poster presents the methodology and findings from a recent impact study of the Network Brown County program. Network Brown County is a leadership education program that was initiated by Extension in 2002. The program brings together 15-20 Brown County residents from a variety of communities and backgrounds for nine one-day sessions. Participants gain personal and community leadership skills, build networks and broaden their awareness of issues facing the county. The study used a semi-structured interview protocol to measure the impact of the program participants on the human, social, political, cultural, economic, natural and built environment capacity of the county. Findings from program alumni were supplemented with interviews with community stakeholders who had not been participants in the program.
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    MHEC Faculty Development Survey Report
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2011-01-05) Armstrong, Jessica
    This preliminary report on the 2010 Midwestern Higher Education Compact faculty development survey is intended to describe the survey’s methodology and response rates, and to examine initial findings on the characteristics of respondents versus non-respondents. The survey was designed to gather information on the status of minority and women faculty development efforts, as well as to identify higher education institutions that can be matched with members of the HEART collaborative for future evaluation. Data collection took place between October 18th and December 1st. 197 surveys have been completed, and the overall response rate for MHEC institutions is 21 percent. Response rates were lower for certain states, schools with smaller enrollment numbers, community colleges and other local schools, specialized schools, proprietary schools, and tribal colleges. There does not appear to be an important difference in response rates between public and private schools, or religious versus non-religious schools. Analysis of refusals and other communications with institutions indicate that the survey is less likely to be completed when staff resources are tight and the survey’s subject matter is not perceived as important to the institution. Alternative next steps include leveraging the influence of MHEC commissioners to address state-by-state response differences, targeting institutions more likely to respond for completion of an abridged survey, and termination of data collection.