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Item 2007 Annual Report(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2007) Schneider, IngridItem 2009 Annual Report(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2010) Schneider, Ingrid E.Item Carver County Mobile Home Parks Needs Assessment and Outreach(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Nelson, Alexa; Laderer, Mary; Hintz, Stephanie; Starr, Renee; Araye, Faisa; Beede, Tiffaney; Dahlberg, Elana; Ninham, Lydia; Ries, Caitlin; Shafer, Kiya; Vu, Sohale; Casey, Bernadette Genis; Gustafson, Marisa; Coppersmith, Emily; Zeon, Philip; Henry, MarkieThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. Carver County is home to five manufactured home parks, and the County's Public Health Department was interested in ways to better engage with residents of the parks around health, social service, and other needs. The goal of the project was to determine barriers to engagement and strategies for getting past those barriers. Carver County project lead Tami LaGow collaborated with three teams of students in SW 8551: Advanced Community Practice--Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy, to determine barriers and develop strategies and recommendations. Each student team focused on a different manufactured home community in Carver County. The students' aggregated final report and a poster are available.Item Community Engagement for the Historic Eidem Homestead Master Plan(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Arnold, Sarah; Latta, Robert; Pflughoeft, Ben; Priestley, KevinThis project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. The Historic Eidem Homestead is an historic and cultural landmark in Brooklyn Park. The City was developing a new master plan for the farmstead, and wanted greater community input into the development of the plan. The goal of this project was to develop a public engagement plan for the Eidem Farm master planning process. Brooklyn Park project lead Pat Busch worked with a team of students in PA 5145: Civic Participation in Public Affairs, to better understand the target audience for the master plan, design a process to engage diverse participants in the planning process, and increase the number of visitors to the homestead. The students' final report and process diagram are available.Item Community Engagement in Parks and Recreation Planning, Carver County, MN(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Andrews, Benjamin; Sippel, Zachary; Strain, SarahThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The Carver County Parks Department was beginning the process of updating the parks chapter of the Carver County Comprehensive Plan. Staff wanted to engage traditionally underrepresented populations in the county in the planning process, and explore new and innovative strategies to increase participation among residents of color. The goal of this project was to develop a comprehensive public engagement plan that staff could use to reach traditionally underserved and underrepresented populations. In collaboration with Carver County project leads Marty Walsh, Nate Kabat, and Sam Pertz, a team of students in PA 5253: Designing Planning and Participation Processes, developed a community engagement and public participation plan. A final report and poster from the project are available.Item Community Engagement Process for Brooklyn Park 2040 Comprehensive Plan(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Brooksbank, Robin; Karner, Kevin; King, Eric; Kleppin, Alex; Lou, ShengnanThis project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Every 10 years, municipalities in the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area are required to update their comprehensive plans. The next update is due by 2018. The purpose of this project was to develop a public engagement plan for Brooklyn Park’s upcoming comprehensive plan update process. A team of five graduate students in Kathy Quick’s PA 5145: Civic Participation in Public Affairs course collaborated with City of Brooklyn Park project lead Cindy Sherman to develop recommendations for improving resident involvement in long-range visioning, better engage local businesses, and overcome the problem of resident burnout through over-engagement. The students' final report is available.Item A Consultancy Approach to Sustainable Agriculture: Creating Meaning through Engagement, Communities of Practice, and Holistic Systems Thinking(2012-01-24) Morawiecki, TeresaToday’s conventional agricultural practices are created to meet our society’s global demand for food and energy products. However, these conventional practices have begun to create concern for the environment and human health. As a result, a related discipline, known as sustainable agriculture has been created within agriculture itself. Sustainable agriculture is a new concept in that much of society is not familiar with it or understands it. I propose a socially conscious framework that encourages connections, relationships, and knowledge building within sustainable agriculture to create growth and expand its current practice. Harnessing the disciplines of engagement, communities of practice and systems thinking, I encourage the use of consultants to guide sustainable agriculture communities and key players to develop and strengthen the social aspects of their community. I utilize the ADDIE model (analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate) to guide the community through the development of the social aspects of agriculture towards successful implementation. The result will ultimately enable sustainable agriculture communities to grow their practice by creating agricultural products that positively impact the economic, environmental and social aspects of our lives.Item Early Childhood Screenings: Latino Community Engagement in Carver County(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Singh, Ishu; Reddy, ApoorvaThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. As the demographic profile of Carver County changes, the Carver Public Health Department is looking for ways to encourage Latino parents to participate in early childhood screenings. The goal of this project was to identify barriers to participating in such screening, and to develop informational materials to overcome these barriers. Carver County project lead Jennifer Anderson worked with students in SPAN 3404: Medical Spanish and Community Health Services, to assess barriers and develop informational materials in both Spanish and English. The students discovered that lack of resources, language barriers, and cultural differences are the primary barriers to early childhood screenings for Latino children. The students' final presentation and poster are available.Item Effects of Incorporating Citizen-Eyewitness Images into the News on Audience Trust in News Organizations and News Engagement(2019-06) Kim, JisuRecently, news organizations have actively been requesting and endorsing private citizens’ contributions to the news production through eyewitness images so as to circulate up-to-minute information and draw more audience attention to the news. Despite anecdotal evidence of growing numbers of citizen-eyewitness images in the news, there has been little systematic research on the extent of using citizen-eyewitness images by news organizations and the impact of incorporating citizen-eyewitness images into news content. In order to fill this gap in the research on citizen-eyewitness images, this study aims to examine: (1) the extent to which U.S. newspaper organizations incorporate images captured by private citizens into their news articles, and (2) the effects of incorporating citizen-eyewitness images in the news on audience trust in the news organization and audience engagement with the news. To achieve the goals, this study first conducted a machine-coded content analysis of news images published by 71 U.S. newspaper organizations to calculate the percentage of citizen-eyewitness images out of all news images with identifiable and classifiable sources (Study 1). This study then collected and analyzed user behavioral data on Twitter to compute a proxy measure representing trust in the news organizations using the Trust Scores in Social Media (TSM) algorithm and audience engagement with news (Study 2). The effects of the extent to which a news organization uses citizen-eyewitness images on audience trust in the news organization and audience engagement with news articles published by it were tested. The results showed that U.S. newspapers tended to incorporate a rather small number of citizen-eyewitness images in their news reports, and there were some variations in the degree of using citizen-eyewitness images in news reports among different groups of news organizations. In addition, the findings demonstrated that the extent to which a news organization incorporated citizen-eyewitness images in its news articles was positively related to the level of audience engagement with its news posted on Twitter. In contrast, there was no significant effect of incorporating images captured by private citizens into the news on audience trust in the news organization. This study contributes to advancing the participatory journalism research by providing systematic data depicting the current state of the newsroom practice using citizen-eyewitness images in the U.S. and examining the effects of citizen-eyewitness images in the news on audience trust in news organizations and engagement with news. Additionally, this study offers useful practical implications for news organizations as they develop strategies to deal with audience’s participation in the news production.Item A Healthy Community Strategic Plan(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Ratzloff, Gratia; Knight, Jake; Gary, HannahThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. Carver County Public Health was beginning a process of developing healthy community strategic plans for several manufactured home parks in Carver County. The goal of this project was to develop an engagement strategy for the Public Health Department to deploy as part of this planning process. Carver County project lead Tami LaGow collaborated with students in PA 5253: Designing Planning and Participation Processes, to develop a set of engagement recommendations. The team focused on one manufactured home park, Riverview Terrace in the city of Chaska, and recommended that the Public Health Department focus on creative and culturally appropriate communication strategies to begin the engagement process. The students' final report is available.Item Healthy Homes: Community Engagement for Healthy Mobile Home Communities(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Cowgill, Jono; Ferguson, Vince; Hartmann, Joseph; McGuire Brigl, ChloeThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Carver County Public Health staff had identified health disparities among residents at the Riverview Terrace manufactured home park in Chaska, including lack of access to healthy food or safe opportunities for physical activity. Staff wanted to investigate other potential health concerns among residents of the manufactured home park, as well as inform them about Carver County’s Community Health Improvement Plan. The goal of this project was to develop a community engagement and public participation plan that would help build relationships between residents of Riverview Terrace and Carver County staff, and that would identify health priorities within the community. In collaboration with Carver County project lead Tami LaGow, a team of students in PA 5253: Designing Planning and Participation Processes, developed a community engagement plan with culturally appropriate interventions and communication strategies focused on community health and the Community Health Improvement Plan. The students' final report from the project is available.Item If “Context-onaries” Existed, How Might They be Used to Increase ‘Civic’ Engagement?(2022-12) Kafka, NanWords have no meaning without context. This paper explores, through literature review, observation and attendance at community meetings, development of a conceptual model of a personal context-onary, how a better understanding of a personal context could lead to increased civic participation. Civic is used in its broadest sense, meaning any activity that a person does (engages in) to assist another, is included in the context of civic. The paper did not include any survey or testing of the usefulness or applicability of a personal context-onary, or what would be different (benefits) if a community context-onary were created. The paper does provide a preliminary conceptual model that proposes a deeper embrace of the fullness of the context from which an individual emerges. The paper also includes a critical comparison of four district council websites from the perspective of how those websites encourage or discourage participation by looking at seven distinct elements, noting that only one website provides choice of language in which to view the website and states that it is open to the public.Item In Arms Reach: Riverview Terrace Healthy Community Strategy(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Lovelace, Hilary; Brown, Erika; Schuettler, KarlThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. Carver County Public Health was beginning a process of developing healthy community strategic plans for several manufactured home parks in Carver County. The goal of this project was to develop an engagement strategy for the Public Health Department to deploy as part of this planning process. Carver County project lead Tami LaGow collaborated with students in PA 5253: Designing Planning and Participation Processes, to develop a set of engagement recommendations. The team focused on one manufactured home park, Riverview Terrace in the city of Chaska, and recommended that the public health department consider past barriers to engagement, use a trusted-advocate model to engage residents, address health disparities, and co-develop the strategic plan with residents. The students' final report is available.Item Increasing Engagement with Communities of Color: A Toolkit for Carver County Parks and Recreation(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Demler, Chuck; Dickens, Kaela; Hartmann, Joseph; Nightingale, Laurel; Perano, KalliThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. In response to changing demographics in Carver County, the County Parks Department was looking for ways to increase engagement with and participation from communities of color in parks and recreation planning. The goal of this project was to develop specific strategies for the Parks Department to better reach communities of color. Carver County project lead Sam Pertz partnered with students in PA 8081: Participating in Policy and Planning Capstone Workshop, to create an engagement toolkit for Carver County Parks Department that included maps of current park usage, a list of contacts and entry points to better reach communities of color in Carver County, an example engagement process design, and engagement measurement tools. The students' final report and poster are available.Item Increasing Renters' Participation in City and Civic Life(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Omar, Mustafa; Vohs, Margaret; Showalter, ElizabethThis project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Renters make up a significant portion of the total Brooklyn Park population, but are historically less engaged in civic life. Brooklyn Park community engagement staff wanted to identify strategies to encourage greater participation in community life among renters. The goal of this project was to develop tailored communication strategies to better connect with renters and to help the city improve service delivery to areas with higher concentrations of renters. Three students in Kathy Quick’s PA 5145 course worked with City of Brooklyn Park project lead Lidiya Girma to develop a set of recommendations organized around three themes: building trust, direct engagement, and ongoing engagement. The final report and engagement diagram are available.Item Latino Community Engagement through Family Literacy Programming(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Sianghio, KathleenThis project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. In response to changing demographics in Carver County, Eastern Carver County School District and County Public Health Department staff were looking for ways to better engage with the growing Latino population in the county. The goal of this project was to determine barriers that prevented Latino families from participating in a family literacy program for those with children aged 0-5 offered by Independent School District 112. Project leads Jennifer Anderson from Carver County Public Health and Jackie Johnston from Eastern Carver County School District worked with a master of public health student to identify the primary barriers to participation, which included lack of time, lack of transportation, and confusion about the purpose and organizational structure of the program. The student's final report and presentation are available.Item Like, Share, and Comment #SCOTUS: Public Engagement with the U.S. Supreme Court on Facebook(2022-06) Houston, RachaelChapter 1: Where’s SCOTUS?: An Exploration of News about the U.S. Supreme Court on Facebook Decades of scholarship reveal that the public learns about the U.S. Supreme Court through media and, particularly, through traditional media like newspapers and television. However, new media, such as Facebook, have not been explored as means for how people may learn about the Court. In this paper, I consider people’s interactions with the Court through Facebook. Specifically, I examine whether, and to what extent, users of this platform are exposed to the Court on their Facebook Feeds and whether this exposure influences users’ perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy. This is an important inquiry, as Facebook may play a role in shaping the public’s support for the Court and offer a new and unique way for the public to engage with, and learn about, the nation’s court of last resort. Chapter 2: Framing Support for the Court: The Role of Media Frames on Facebook News Feeds In today’s social media environment, Americans learn more and more about federal institutions on Facebook. This includes the U.S. Supreme Court, a branch of government that is typically not on the minds of citizens. In this chapter, I argue that Facebook posts about the Court’s decision-making process have the ability to shape people’s support for it. To make this argument, I expose individuals to mock Facebook Feeds to determine how exposure to various decision-making frames affect people’s support for the Court. This study has significant implications for the Court’s legitimacy moving forward, as Facebook is a powerful force that has the ability to shape public attitudes toward a federal institution. Chapter 3: Cue the Court Support: The Effects of Partisan News and Social Endorsement Cues on Facebook As Facebook users scroll through their Feeds, they rely on cues to make decisions about what information to process and how deeply to process it, which ultimately contributes to what they learn through the platform. There are two primary cues that users rely on when processing news on Facebook: source cues and social endorsement cues, such as likes, shares, and comments. In this chapter, I seek to answer two main research questions. First, are individuals more likely to engage with political Facebook posts about the U.S. Supreme Court when the news source of the information aligns with their partisanship and when the post contains social endorsements? Second, do news source and social endorsement cues influence the extent to which people process political information about the Court in the form of its legitimacy? To answer these questions, I expose individuals to mock Facebook posts about the Court, varying the news source and whether the posts contain social endorsements. Ultimately, this study provides a more detailed look at how cues unique to the Facebook environment influence (or do not influence) Court support.Item Museums: Make / Matter(2018-05) Covey Spanier, KatieThe primary aim of many American university art museums (also known as teaching or campus museums) is to create a space that is removed from the pressures of the commercial art world where students, artists, community members, curators, and faculty can join together to have direct experiences with art. These museums often operate as independent units within institutions of higher education and are thus granted the academic freedom to investigate controversial topics that would otherwise be avoided, ignored or censored. While research has illuminated that the core audience for American museums is primarily non-Hispanic whites, and that museum audiences are radically less diverse than the American public, today’s campus art museums serve both the largest and most demographically diverse student body in history. However, research is limited on university art museum participation or the extent to which teaching museum participation reflects and shapes trends across the field. Through 23 semi-structured interviews with university art museum educators, community engagement specialists, and curators from across the United States, the researcher investigates how academic museums attract and engage their diverse communities while also navigating and responding to the current social and political environment. The results of this study indicate that many academic art museums consider community participation a priority, yet internal structures are hierarchical and staffed by predominately white females. These traditional operating paradigms create both internal and external power dynamics that create barriers for community participation. The researcher posits that by adapting a human-centered ‘abundant community’ framework at all levels of the museum ecosystem, teaching museums have the power to systematically address disparities in museum participation and representation, harness their platforms for radical truth telling, and redirect the meanings, purposes and potentials of museums across the world.Item Public Engagement in Planning a Future Whitewater Park(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Reichard, Ashley; Troedson, Erin; Wustmann, JenniferThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The Carver County Water Management Organization is investigating the feasibility of removing or restructuring a dam on the Crow River near downtown Watertown. The purpose of the removal/redesign is to improve the fishery in the river, reduce bank erosion, and potentially create an engineered whitewater recreation attraction to boost tourism in the area. The goal of this project was to develop a public participation plan to engage residents in conversations about designing, planning, and restructuring the dam. In collaboration with Carver County project lead Paul Moline and Watertown City Administrator Shane Fineran, a team of students in PA 5145: Civic Participation in Public Affairs, developed a public engagement plan focused on visioning and design. A final report and poster from the project are available.Item Publishing an Online Research Review: Engaging University and Community Authors in Communication About Research(Journal of Extension, 2020-06) Michaels, Cari, CExtension professionals need easy access to published research and the means to translate it in meaningful ways. They also aim to engage community partners in applying research findings. The Children's Mental Health eReview serves as an example of a process for engaged writing with community partners as well as a product that summarizes current research and its relevance. The eReview reaches a wide audience, promotes practice change among readers, and serves as a useful model for other areas of Extension work.