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Volume 25, Number 2, 2021 A publication of the University of Georgia JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT EDITOR Shannon O. Brooks, University of Georgia ASSOCIATE EDITORS Burton Bargerstock Andrew Furco Michigan State University University of Minnesota Paul Brooks Kateryna Kent University of Georgia University of Minnesota Katy Campbell Paul H. Matthews University of Alberta University of Georgia EDITORIAL BOARD James Anderson Ralph Foster University of Utah Auburn University Jorge Atiles James Frabutt West Virginia University University of Notre Dame Mike Bishop Timothy Franklin Cornell University New Jersey Institute of Technology Timothy Cain Lauren Griffeth University of Georgia University of Georgia Rosemary Caron Suchitra Gururaj University of New Hampshire University of Texas at Austin Jeri Childers J. Matthew Hartley University of Technology, Sydney University of Pennsylvania Robbin Crabtree Barbara Holland Loyola Marymount University Research & Consultant Audrey J. Jaeger Scott Peters North Carolina State University Cornell University Emily Janke Samory Pruitt University of North Carolina at University of Alabama Greensboro Janice Putnam Richard Kiely University of Central Missouri Cornell University Judith Ramaley Brandon W. Kliewer Portland State University Kansas State University John Saltmarsh Mary Lo Re University of Massachusetts, Boston Wagner College Charlie Santo Thomas Long University of Memphis California State University, San Bernardino Antoinette Smith-Tolken Stellenbosch University Lorraine McIlarath National University of Ireland, Galway Elaine Ward Merrimack College David Moxley University of Oklahoma, Norman David Weerts University of Minnesota Grace Ngai Hong Kong Polytechnic University Theresa Wright University of Georgia KerryAnn O’Meara University of Maryland, College Park CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS Alexandria Muller Melanie Nyambura Katsivo Allison Baker Wilson Melissa L. Lyon Amy Melissa Pulliam Michel A. Coconis Bruce A. Behringer Michelle Phillips Buchberger David Julian Muthusami Kumaran Debra Schutte Patricia Hrusa Williams Dianne Chambers Paul H. Matthews Huixuan Xu Primož Medved Ítalo de Paula Casemiro Ramona Marlene Jean-Perkins Jamie Shuda Robert J. Gray Jennifer Heath Samantha Langley-Turnbaugh John D. Tamiggi Susan Harden Kevin Chan Susan Malone Back Kyle Whitfield Wesley L. Meares Mary D. Burbank William Kops Megan Snider Bailey Wing Yan (Joanna) Yeung MANAGING EDITORS Philip Adams Danielle Kerr University of Georgia University of Georgia PUBLISHER Jennifer L. Frum, University of Georgia PARTNERS Published through a partnership of the University of Georgia’s Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, Institute of Higher Education, and UGA Extension. SPONSORED BY JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT Volume 25, Number 2 , 2021 Copyright © 2021 by the University of Georgia. TABLE of CONTENTS Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement From the Editor... .............................................................................. 1 Shannon O. Brooks RESEARCH ARTICLES Initiating and Extending Institutionalization of Service-Learning .........5 Clarence B. W. Ti, Joyce Tang-Wong, and Robert G. Bringle Faculty Perspectives on Coeducation and Reciprocity .......................... 23 Alexa N. Darby, Tammy Cobb, and Lauren Willingham Characterizing STEM Community-Based Learning Through the Interstakeholder Dynamics Within a Three-tiered Model ...................35 David A. Delaine STEM Outreach: Are We Making a Difference? A Case Study Evaluating the Science and Engineering Challenge Program ................................59 Stephanie Reed, Elena Prieto, Terry Burns, and John O’Connor The Benefits of University Collaboration Within University-Community Partnerships in Europe .................................79 Primož Medved and Matjaz Ursic PROJECTS WITH PROMISE Collective Knowledge Mobilization Through a Community–University Partnership .....................................................................................95 Dadit Hidayat and Randy Stoecker Science with Seniors: A Model Program for Senior Citizen–Centered STEM Outreach ............................................................................... 111 Suyog Padgaonkar and Emily A. Schafer Role Model Moms Post-Secondary Academy: A University–Community Collaboration to Encourage Access to Postsecondary for Marginalized Women ..........................................................................................123 Roxanne Wright, Tianyue Wang, Casey Goldstein, Danielle Thibodeau, and Joyce Nyhof-Young Exploring Effective Pre-Kindergarten Family–School Partnerships: The Pre-Kindergarten Parent Leadership Academy Program ..............137 Daniela M. Susnara, M. Blake Berryhill, Andrea Ziegler, and Alex Betancourt Testing Impacts of Goal-Oriented Outreach With the Girl Scouts: Can a Single Activity Change Attitudes Toward Insects? ........................... 151 Andrew J. Mongue and Kaila L. Colyott Sight and Sole: Partnering to Enhance the Health of the New Britain Homeless ........................................................................... 163 Stacy Christensen and Michele McKelvey Service-Learning Through Immersive Technologies in Ecuador .........177 Veronica Yepez-Reyes and Eric R. Williams The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana: Exploring the Research Capacity Building Potential of a Higher Education Informal Science Learning Program ................................................ 187 Jennifer M. Moskel, Emily L. Shroyer, Shawn Rowe, Mark D. Needham, and Brian K. Arbic The Environment Corps: Combining Classroom Instruction, Service-Learning, and Extension Outreach to Create a New Model of Community Engaged Scholarship at the University of Connecticut .....215 Chester Arnold, Juliana Barrett, Todd Campbell, Maria Chrysochoou, and Nefeli Bompoti REFLECTIVE ESSAY Problematizing the Relationship Between Cultural, Social, and Political Capital and Graduate Student Participation in a Community Engagement Professional Association ........................... 233 Lori E. Kniffin, Trina L. Van Schyndel, and Elisabeth G. Fornaro © Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Volume 25, Number 2, p. 1, (2021) Copyright © 2021 by the University of Georgia. eISSN 2164-8212 From the Editor... Shannon O. Brooks t’s getting hot out there as we settle This study examines perceptions of how into summer. Perfect timing for the these faculty define coeducation and reci- latest issue, 25(2), of the Journal procity and what associated tools and fac- of Higher Education Outreach and tors are important for developing successful Engagement, which has turned into partnerships. The findings provide evidence Ia true “summer blockbuster.” This issue is that can be used by other instituions to chock full of new scholarship featuring 15 support service-learning faculty in their articles covering a diverse range of topics course design and implementation as they and methodologies, interestingly, with a develop their roles as coeducators, and as decidedly international flair. Contributing they maintain reciprocal partnerships. authors from Australia, Singapore, Ecuador, Ireland, London, Slovenia, and Canada, STEM focused outreach and community- as well as research studies conducted in based learning feature heavily in our next Brazil and Ghana add new dimensions to two research articles. First, Delaine analyzes community engaged scholarship outside of STEM community-based learning (CBL) the U.S. higher education context. Over the across two case studies using a multiple- last three years, the number of manuscript case study design, resulting in the develop- ment of a model with three system levels— submissions from international authors community, program, and individual. This has steadily increased, and JHEOE is all the study, conducted at a public university for better for these international voices and high-achieving students in Brazil, ad- perspectives. dresses a gap in scholarship by exploring The Research Articles section in this issue a systems level approach to understanding present empirical studies on a wide variety CBL and the actions, goals, and impact of of topics from service-learning to STEM practitioners. Further adding not only to the outreach. Leading off this section are two STEM but also the international perspec- studies examining important elements of tive of this issue, Reed, Prieto, Burns, and service-learning development—institution- O’Connor also present findings from a piv- alization and faculty development. First, otal decade-long evaluation of the Science Ti, Tang, and Bringle address a gap in the and Engineering Challenge (SEC) program, literature on service-learning institutional- a STEM outreach program hosted by the ization at non-Western universities through University of Newcastle, Australia. This their case study of integrating service- impressive study of over 7,000 high school learning as a “signature pedagogy” at Ngee and college students, analyzed the affect Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. This article participation in SEC had on pursuing STEM examines the process employed at this in- degrees in college, among other factors. stitution, using Furco’s (2002) dimensions Concluding the Research Articles sec- of institutionalization, and subsequently, tion, Medved and Ursic author a multiple how this evidence drove the creation of case study project with urban planning fo- the "Service-Learning Roadmap,” an in- cused university-community