A new blueprint of action Framing our work to become a model for the New American University, Maricopa county and beyond During this moment of transition, we reflected upon our successes and lessons learned. We created a streamlined framework for activities that will enable us to scale up and achieve greater impact. We retain our core focus on data and partnerships, which lie at the center of all we do to share, discover and solve. “This blueprint will help us to accomplish our aim to transform the university by aligning to the institution’s enterprise framework,” says Patricia Solís, executive director of KER. Organized into the same three domains — academic enterprise, knowledge enterprise and learning enterprise — this framing will allow our activities to take root within the appropriate setting of the institution, ensure that KER has a university-wide influence, and deepen the process of institutionalization. The activity domains leverage both the best of what we have innovated in our first three years, and fill in gaps for innovation that we discovered. We identified these ten domains through reflection and a developmental evaluation conducted by our Director, Executive Director and Evaluator over the first six months of 2021, including consultations with the Piper Trust and many partners and participants. Four of our faculty members have stepped into Associate Director roles this year to lead these new domains, strengthen our established activities, and fill in needed gaps.
Our Associate Directors Melissa Guardaro Associate Director for Resilience Hubs Focused on development and implementation of Resilience Hubs, upskilling, certifications, consultations, convenings — especially Hunch Lunch content — and related products and services
Mason Mathews Associate Director for Academic Integration and Alliances Focused on development and implementation of the Alliances Toolkit, social network analyses, collaboration services, support to academic integration and P&T activities
Sarbeswar Praharaj Associate Director for Data and Visualization Focused on development and implementation of dashboards, briefings, visualizations and collaboration on modeling, as well as data support for resilience dividends series and related products and services
Lora Phillips Associate Director for Broader Impacts Focused on development and implementation of fellowship support for academic and community projects and responsive research, as well as design and deployment of broader impacts mechanisms for resilience-related proposals
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