Potential of Community-Campus Partnerships Roles and Significance of Trust, Power, Sustainability, and Reciprocity in Community-Campus Partnerships Title: Sustainability and Reciprocity in a partnership community in Mexico city university: ITESM_Campus Santa Fe

Introductory remarks Social inequality in Santa Fe (Mx) zone Bachelor students include communitarian Service-Learning strategies to improve citizenship, social participation and responsibility around the Campus.

Santa Lucia contrast zone. One Side of Monterrey Tech_Santa Fe, in Mexico city, Mx

Santa Fe -old town inside Mexico city

Corporative Zone_ Santa Fe

Relevance A partnership is an arrangement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.[1] Partnership is between businesses, university, and government and colaborate to achieve and share profits and losses. Small enterprises around the Campus in coordination + government of Alvaro Obregon + Service-learning of bachelor students ______________________________________ = communities positively impacted. In what ways has faculty and students on these methods contribute to positive social change?

Methodology denominated Service-Learning, which it had being implemented in United States since the sixties. In Portland since 1995; but in Mexico it has been practiced by Monterrey Tech since 2006 in thirty three campus around the country. Schemes of community based participation allow integration of theory and practice. A community partnership get acquainted of a commitment with people to take care of their quality of life, so there is a dialogic relationship between small business and students, who elaborate business plans. These small companies have an income between USD (three and five thousands pesos).

Small enterprises around Campus Santa Fe are analyzed by students, so they can have a professional practice of their field in order to improve their way to manage their accounting, advertising, short and long term plans. Interested trading men get acquainted of their training needs including computation. Only through Monterrey Tech process, governmental authorities approved financial aid to these business men. Example: Video _

CORPORATE ZONE- Results of the survey Most companies are 3-5 years old. They operate with 30 employees 9.5% of the companies earned about 1 to 3 millions Survey will be helpful for county to know how significant economic and commercial information.

So, in coordination with Alvaro Obregon government authorities, they have had decided how can they afforded any financial support (fifty thousand pesos to four hundred USD) with Tec´s intermediation.

It is also important to kwon the employment capacity of the area and seek support of certain employment sources. Survey represents a percentage of companies that did make the interview; many other companies denied the market research tool. In other cases, the employees that replied the questionnaires had no complete knowledge of the companies; this affects the results given in the end. Companies also consider the questionnaires a form of giving away confidential information. The access to business centers was difficult. For a complete access to the business center, they demanded the student should have made a previous formal appointment. The Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Social Incubator is part of Mexico’s “stimulate development strategy”, supporting entrepreneurs in the development and growth of micro-enterprises and the creation of new businesses.

Testimony Ricardo Iván Scarinci C. – A

Conclusions Citizenship competences are difficult to achieve and it’s a long term process. This subject is Service Learning strategy and citizen social actions are implemented in this university (Tec de Monterrey) with 33 campus in Mexico. This subject named “social responsibility and citizenship” is required for all professions (business, engineering and humanities) Entrepreneurship culture

For five semesters, we got sixty three entrepreneurs who run this process, but now only ten business men are incubated. The rest of them became independent, now there are ten micro- enterprise Who participate in a business or trade fair It’s a coordinated by social development department. It reinforces citizenship values. Knowledge acquires meaning through the projects development and functionality.

THANK YOU Bibliography : Kecskes, Kevin and Kerrigan, S. “Capstone Experiences: Integrating Education for Civic Engagement”. En B. Jacoby (ed), Civic Engagement in Higher Education, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Campus site: