Community Partnerships and Impacts

Section Introductio

Introduction to the Section: Community Partnerships and Impacts

From early in its history, IARSLCE has been committed to promoting reciprocity and mutuality between students, faculty, and institutions, and the communities with which they work. The introduction to the Community Partnerships and Impacts section introduces articles in the 2016 volume that address these topics. The section editors also note that in actual practice and research, faculty and institutional agendas and needs have overhwlemingly dominated those of community partners and challenge the field to work toward resolving the differences in power and resources that keep these inequities in place