| Track 1: Crisis Communication and Community Engagement {popup text="Abstract" class="btn" popwidth="500px" popheight="300px"}Track 1: Crisis Communication and Community Engagement A student-led session that focuses on the many challenges COVID-19 brought to our rural community of 5500 people on the east coast of Canada. A student internship has acted as the central communications role in connecting town and gown in a volunteer community response. The session uses an asset-based management approach to the town and gown strengths and stresses and argues that this crisis originates from, yet also enhances, the town and gown relationship. Presenters: Rohin Minocha-McKenney, Biochemistry student at Mount Allison University from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada; John Higham, Mayor of Sackville; Carolle de Ste-Croix, Director of Alumni Engagement and Giving at Mount Allison University, Co-Chair of the Tantramar Covid-19 Task Force; Michael Fox, professor of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University, current ITGA Board member, New Brunswick, Canada.{/popup} Friday the 13th: A Canadian Case Study on Communications and an Integrated Community Response in the Time of Covid-19 |
| Track 1: Crisis Communication and Community Engagement {popup text="Abstract" class="btn" popwidth="500px" popheight="300px"}Track 1: Crisis Communication and Community Engagement Northeast Ohio Medical University Department of Psychiatry Coordinating Centers of Excellence provide community stakeholders with expertise and resources to improve the quality of care for people with serious mental illnesses. In response to COVID-19, the department built upon its use of Project ECHO, a distance health education model created to provide best practice care across all communities, to disseminate timely and accurate information to its many community-based constituents. NEOMED developed a series of specialized ECHOs and disseminated resources to support health care systems. Presenters: Dr. Doug Smith, Medical Director for the Summit County Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board, and Interim Chair of the NEOMED Department of Psychiatry; Nichole E. Ammon, M.S.Ed., LPCC-S, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, lead for the Integrated Care at NEOMED (IC@N) ECHO program.{/popup} Strengthening Partnerships: The NEOMED Project ECHO® Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Track 2: Off-Campus Life and Neighborhood Challenges {popup text="Abstract" class="btn" popwidth="500px" popheight="300px"}Track 2: Off-Campus Life and Neighborhood Challenges Universities across the country are finalizing their plans to reopen for Fall 2020, and these plans have significant implications for off-campus students and university communities. Join us to learn how two universities (North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and national off-campus housing providers (represented by Campus Advantage) are incorporating off-campus constituencies and neighborhood relations into their Fall 2020 plans. Presenters: Moderator Trina Rogers, Senior Vice President, Off Campus Partners; Co-presenters: Justine Hollingshead, Chief of Staff & Assistant Vice Chancellor, Division of Academic & Student Affairs, and Donna McGalliard, Executive Director of University Housing, North Carolina State University; Aaron Bachenheimer, Executive Director of Off-Campus Student Life & Community Partnerships, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dan Oltersdorf, Chief Learning Officer & Senior Vice President of Campus Advantage, one of the nation’s leading student housing providers.{/popup} Planning for Fall 2020 & Off-Campus Students |
| Track 3: Economic Recovery and Innovation {popup text="Abstract" class="btn" popwidth="500px" popheight="300px"}Track 3: Economic Recovery and Innovation Learn how collaboration between the Boulder Economic Council, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the City of Boulder resulted in a new methodology developed to benchmark the performance of Boulder’s innovation ecosystem compared to other U.S. centers of innovation. The methodology is readily adaptable to other communities interested in evaluating their innovation ecosystems compared to others. The benchmarking product of the methodology is especially applicable to communities interested in monitoring their performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenters: Clif Harald, Executive Director of the Boulder Economic Council (BEC); Brian Lewandowski, Executive Director of the Business Research Division at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder; Jennifer Pinsonneault, Business Liaison, City of Boulder.{/popup} Collaborating to Evaluate the Competitive Advantages of Your Innovation Ecosystem |
