Date Available
12-7-2011
Year of Publication
2007
Document Type
Thesis
College
Agriculture
Department
Family Studies
First Advisor
Jason Whiting
Abstract
This thesis presents information on community healthy marriage initiatives and university-community collaborations. Specifically, it examined the workings of one of those healthy marriage initiatives in the university-community collaborative context. The project explored the current process of this initiative, identifying specific challenge points and defining factors and characteristics associated with the success thereof. Rather than working in discrete categories, these challenge points exist on a success continuum. How each challenge is managed determines whether it is a success factor or a stumbling block. The project is grounded in published learning from other university-community initiatives and employs an ethnographic qualitative research strategy. Data consist of interviews with several key collaborators (n = 9) who were involved with this initiative. The findings from this ethnography support and enhance previous literature on university-community collaborations and outreach scholarship and provide useful examples and lessons that can be used by other university-community collaborations, especially those involving marriage education initiatives in a community setting.
Recommended Citation
Carlton, Erik L., "DEFINING FACTORS AND CHALLENGE POINTS OF UNIVERSITY-BASED COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF ONE HEALTHY MARRIAGE PROJECT" (2007). University of Kentucky Master's Theses. 444.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/444
