Community Engagement & Impact

Howdy Partner! Museum-University Partnerships Impact Relationships with Schools and Communities

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By tapping into community pillars like teachers and schools, museums and universities can impact a bigger and broader audience. Conference attendees will hear how a partnership between the School of Education at Loyola University in Chicago and several local cultural institutions has evolved over a period of five years. Conference attendees will learn how they can adapt these successful strategies and circumvent challenges to create an action plan of their own, regardless of museum size or location.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participant will be able to identify specific strategies to help initiate and sustain partnerships with universities.
• Recreate several activities and exercises around informal learning with an emphasis on learning and theories of development.
• Upon completion, participant will be able to examine the impacts of this particular partnership in Chicago and apply findings to the design of an action plan of their own.

Presenter(s)

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  Kyla Cook

  School Learning Experiences Coordinator
  The Field Museum
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  David Ensminger

  Associate Professor
  Loyola University Chicago
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  Colleen Incandela

  Manager of Program Development
  Adler Planetarium
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  Wendy Quinlan

  N.W. Harris Learning Collection Administrator
  The Field Museum
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  Sarah Wehlage

  School Partnerships Manager
  Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum