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May 18, 2021

There were some silver linings to the panic and scramble of redirecting an in-person event with hundreds of registrants to an online briefing held in March 2020. Thanks to the virtual format for Arizona State University's Social Embeddedness Conference for the terminal 2 years, the recorded sessions are now available on-demand for staff, faculty, students and community members to access.

Being responsible for the communities ASU serves is part of its university charter , and since 2014 the ASU Social Embeddedness Briefing has brought together community partners with their ASU collaborators to share ideas and build bridges to further goals in education, civic engagement, research and much more. Rep. Ruben Gallego assists a participant at a FAFSA drive-in event at Maryvale High School. Photograph by Yenifer Lopez. Download Full Image

The issue is planned every year by ASU staff; this yr the leaders included Christina Ngo , managing director of social embededess, Erin Chastain, Access ASU manager of school partnerships, and Allison Gray, coordinator senior for the College of Global Futures. The 2021 effect expanded to a 3rd day and had 539 registrants.

Access ASU , which is dedicated to increasing admission to higher pedagogy for Arizona students, has been involved in the briefing since its inception. Because of both the passion and experience of staff, they've go more than involved every bit thought partners, behind the scenes in operations and as conference presenters.

The vast majority of the group's work is in the community, Chastain said. "As staff members, we've been excited to invite our community school districts and other partners to the table to talk most our work and the lessons learned, and it'southward been corking professional development for us as a team."

Ngo's chore is to set aside space and time to elevate and amplify the social embeddedness piece of work that ASU does in partnership with community members. She said she's been thrilled and grateful to take the buy-in and resources of Access ASU and to encounter the endeavour grow. Ngo said the connections made are crucial to breaking down silos in university-community piece of work.

"We share the same goals — building access to postsecondary learning opportunities, creating impact and exporting excellence. With customs partners, nonetheless, navigating the university can be challenging in many ways for community partners, whether it's a school, a nonprofit or another organization."

So every twelvemonth, the event offers opportunities for ASU faculty, staff and students to coordinate with each other and with their partners; they can share best practices, find out who is working with whom and go inspired past the unique ways customs partners can work with universities.

Jonathan Koppell, dean and professor of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and vice provost for public service and social impact, ready the phase for the conversations at this year's event, including past moderating the opening panel.

"The academy is strongest when nosotros bring together knowledge and expertise from across the ASU enterprise. The annual ASU Social Embeddedness Network Conference showcases that ability, where departments suspension down silos and come up together with the connected purpose of collaborating with the communities we serve," Koppell said.

The 2021 briefing kicked off with an opening session to share strategies for advancing ASU every bit a socially embedded establishment and featured Maria Anguiano , executive vice president, Learning Enterprise; Nancy Gonzales , provost pro tempore and executive vice president, Bookish Enterprise; and Emerge C. Morton , executive vice president, Cognition Enterprise.

Day two was kicked off by a fireside conversation that focused on the history of voting rights in Native American communities and an overview of the Arizona Native Vote Ballot Protection Project. The day included workshops and breakout sessions that covered the MetaNetwork, which allows schools around the country to share methods that increase the number of Black, Latino and low-income students who apply for financial aid and postsecondary pathways.

MetaNetwork partners on day 3 shared how they've been continuing higher readiness work, which had been done primarily in person before COVID-19, in a session that shared about their experience hosting FAFSA drive-in events to help families in a rubber way fill out the Complimentary Application for Federal Student Aid, which opens the door to grants and scholarships.

Solio Felix, chief program officer for Be a Leader Foundation, was a presenter at that session and said that the MetaNetwork partners were excited to share near their project, which was a dynamic case of collaboration in pursuit of student success.

"What we presented at the conference was about all the dynamic pieces that come into play when you collaborate. You're dealing with operational issues … we may exercise the aforementioned task, only we all kind of do information technology a piddling bit differently. And so our focus of the briefing presentation was how did nosotros make all of this work together?" he said.

Leveraging partnerships, different skill sets and resources among Access ASU, Be a Leader Foundation and College Success Arizona, the grouping reached nigh 1,000 families with FAFSA drive-in events since January 2021. Felix said the group, which they've affectionately dubbed the Wolf Pack, learned a lot from the start few events, and operations got smoother along the mode because they were all unified to work toward FAFSA completion goal of 52% of Arizona high school seniors completing FAFSA. Felix said the conference was a great run a risk to share success and best practices with others about this university-community initiative.

"I think a conference like this really allows for other organizations to see how the collaborative space can really drive bear on and really create that systemic change," he said.

Day three also featured a panel highlighting ASU's work with the Tolleson Unified Schoolhouse Commune in Phoenix, which serves most 12,000 students. The session was moderated by Rogelio Ruiz, Access ASU executive coordinator,  and featured Michele Wilson, Tolleson's banana superintendent for curriculum and instruction; Joely Sanders, Sierra Linda High School counselor; Sylvia Symonds, associate vice president for Educational Outreach and Student Services; and Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Tooker Professor and assistant dean, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Technology.

Ruiz knows firsthand what tin happen when ASU is connected with community partners such as school districts — he credits his feel with the Cesar Chavez Leadership Institute summer plan with making a 4-year university education seem attainable when he was a high schoolhouse student in Wickenburg, Arizona. It was a counselor at his school who continued him to CCLI.

"I am the first one in my family unit to go to college. And then essentially, I had no idea that my GPA would qualify me to nourish a university," he said. "Only subsequently I did this summer plan, it helped me to empathize the admissions requirements, information about financial assistance, scholarships and the personal statement. And then they really helped me a lot."

Now in his office with Admission ASU, he helps prepare and empower students with college readiness tools in Tolleson, Peoria and Glendale schools to pursue higher education. Last yr, Ruiz was one of several Access ASU staff members who stepped in as Zoom hosts when the conference had to pivot quickly to an online platform. This year, he was more involved reviewing programming and proposal submissions, even being in front of the Zoom camera as a panel moderator.

Though information technology was a little nerve-wracking to be moderating, Ruiz thought information technology was a cracking opportunity to professionally develop and to help share the story one of the partner schoolhouse districts he works closely with.

"If you think about information technology, many of our districts are being pulled left and right by dissimilar initiatives or different programs. So just hearing what they value when it comes to a partnership, I call up it was great to just hear that perspective ... and information technology made me feel very honored to be role of that partnership," he said.

Ruiz said the conversation brought upward several important questions for any field to consider.

"Some things I wasn't expecting to hear about our partnership was that our partners know that ASU sees the bigger pic," Ruiz said. "We're thinking about things like, do nosotros reverberate the population that we're serving? Are nosotros fully helping these students? Or is this more looking at, we just need numbers."

Ruiz said that because of his experience with the conference, he has learned skills that he was able to take back to his everyday work. Next twelvemonth, he plans to submit his own workshop proposal to inspire others interested in community date and social embeddedness.

"Oftentimes I meet that we do the work, but to us some of the work that we do but seems to be an everyday thing," he said. "Merely I think it's besides important to highlight (our partnerships and work) so that people can potentially get inspired or maybe want to duplicate some of the work within their departments or inside their initiatives or the things that they're doing to support students."

Get involved with the 2022 conference and learn more well-nigh social embeddedness by reaching out to Christina Ngo. Find out how y'all can get involved and volunteer with Admission ASU outreach, including upcoming FAFSA drive-in events, past reaching out to Erin Chastain.

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