American Society for Public Administration 2011 Conference March 11 – 15, 2011 Theme: “Public Administration without Borders” Discussion Circles Collaborative Governance in University-community Partnerships: A case study of the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Nova Southeastern University public safety partnership (3/13/11) Leslie Taylor, Ph. D. Broward Sheriff’s Office Marguerite Bryan, Ph. D. Tammy Kushner, Psy. D. Criminal Justice Institute, Nova Southeastern University John Carroll, Ph. D. Barry University
Continuum of Agency-Community and University-Community (Practitioner/Researcher) Relations in Program and Policy Deliberations Age ncy – Community Relations Adversarial/ Legal. Conflict. Differences in Perspectives University – Community Relations (Practitioner/ Researcher) Cooperation/ Coordination (Multi-jurisdictional). Interorganizational arrangements. Principal-agent relationship Collaboration (Stakeholders/ Non-state actors). Interdependence. Trust Building. Commitment. Shared Expectations. Shared Ownership. Collective Responsibility
A. Starting Conditions Power Resource Imbalances • NSU & BSO equal in resources • Contract guidelines have equal number of Board member • Financial commitments are shared between the entities • Contract specifies rotating chairmanships Prehistory of Conflict Incentives To Participate BSO’s interest in developing advanced leadership training for senior and supervisory public safety officers and to obtain and conduct graduate school level research on the effectiveness of public safety projects. For NSU to enter into the partnership was to enhance its existing educational/research programs,
B. Facilitative Leadership • Organic arising from the NSU-BSO Advisory Board Personal skills of leader Experience of leader • • Monthly meetings Joint public relations Jointly hosted website C. Institutional Design • • • Broad-based participation Clear ground rules Transparency Joint grants writing Joint research endeavors Shared funding Written contract & guidelines
CHALLENGES • Public agencies/practitioners balancing operational duties & performing research projects; • Researchers need to meet deadlines and schedules of funding agencies does not often synchronize with collaborating practitioners; • Organizational cultures • External economic conditions • Politics internal and external to the partners; • Obstacles to disseminating collaboration goals & agenda to their respective personnel
FACTORS NEEDED FOR SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION • Buy in from top leadership from partners • Formal institutional arrangement • Committed and experienced leadership • Small wins • Visibility
Questions What kind of structures do you have in your partnerships? What other issues do you think need to be addressed in order for this paper to be published? What journals might be interested in this? How could the ideas in the paper be improved? What do you think would be future research needs in this area?
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