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The BARA Commitment to Community Outreach
BARA commonly carries out its applied research within local
communities-locally, nationally, and internationally-employing
highly participatory research methodologies. This approach-evident
in all of BARA's research programs-naturally leads to the creation
of long-term partnerships with community groups, partnerships
which result in a collaborative problem-solving process. This
process and its underlying philosophy constitute the core of
BARA's model of community outreach. In applied research, knowledge
is advanced within a problem-solving context, and the University
brings the relevant training and experience of its faculty to
the community doorstep, and these faculty are challenged to
be mediators and facilitators as well as researchers. In effect,
the BARA outreach model seeks to transform the collaborative
problem-oriented research activity into a community empowering
experience. The University must exercise an active role outside
the walls, and BARA works to fulfill this responsibility in
all aspects of its applied research.
Outreach Activities
Southern Paiute Consortium
Nogales
Revegetation Project
Hopi Literacy Project
Tucson Urban Poverty
Somali Bantu
Social
Justice Project
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