Japantown Prepared and Organizational Studies: Campus-Community Partnerships for Disaster Preparedness

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Practicing Anthropology

Volume

43

Issue

4

DOI

10.17730/0888-4552.43.4.31

First Page

31

Last Page

37

Abstract

Universities and community-based organizations partner to provide benefits to students and to communities where universities are situated. We examine the core elements of a successful partnership in a case study of an ongoing collaboration between San José State University (SJSU) and Japantown Prepared, a community-based organization whose mission is to advance disaster preparedness at the household and community level within San José, California’s, historic Japantown. We demonstrate these core elements of success through a discussion of the development and execution of several projects designed to build capacity within Japantown Prepared and provide real-world experience for Organizational Studies students at SJSU. We conclude that the relationship between SJSU and Japantown Prepared meets the core elements of a successful partnership and provide further suggestions for its continued success.

Keywords

campus-community partnerships, experiential education, disaster preparedness, organizational development

Department

Anthropology

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