Resources
- Community Engaged Scholarship for Health FAQs
- Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Key Contacts and Consultants in North Carolina
- Consultants to Assist UNCG
- Presentations
- Key Articles to Support Community Engagement Work
- Key Books to Support Community Engagement Work
- Reports
Table of Contents:
- Definining Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Examples of Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Assessing Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Funding of Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Institutions Embracing Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Best Practices on Institutionalizing Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Overcoming Barriers to Embracing Community-Engaged Scholarship
- References and Resources
The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) has recently released an online toolkit on engaged scholarship comprised of an annotated bibliography of published articles, links to online resources, and a set of original essays.
http://www.compact.org/initiatives/civic-engagement-at-research-universities/trucen-overview/
A number of community-engaged scholarship (CES) resources from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) are highlighted, including:
- The Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) Toolkit, designed to provide community-engaged health professional faculty with a set of tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure.
http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info - Portfolio excerpts from community-engaged faculty members who have been promoted and/or tenured.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/toolkit-portexamples.html - The CES review, promotion and tenure (RPT) package that includes 8 characteristics of quality CES, a sample dossier for presenting CES work to RPT committees, and a group exercise simulating an RPT committee process that can be used as an educational tool with RPT committees.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/CES_RPT_Package.pdf - The “Building Capacity for Community Engagement: Institutional Self-Assessment” that is designed to assess the capacity of a given higher educational institution (or unit therein) for community engagement and CES, and to identify opportunities for action.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/self-assessment-copyright.pdf - Faculty for the Engaged Campus, a national initiative of CCPH in partnership with the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy, supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the US Department of Education.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/faculty-engaged.html - One of the original essays, “Practical tools for overcoming the challenges of advancing your career as an engaged scholar” is authored by Cathy Jordan, Co-Director of Faculty for the Engaged Campus.
http://www.compact.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jordan-final1.pdf
Community-Based Participatory Research
- Overview
- Reports and Presentations
- Examples of Funded Proposals
- Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Syllabi and Course Materials
- Online Curriculum
- Electronic Discussion Groups
- Principles and Policies
- MOUs/MOAs
- Web Links
Key Contacts and Consultants in North Carolina
Lynn Blanchard, M.P.H., Ph.D., blanchard@unc.edu
Director of the Carolina Center for Public Service, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Faculty for the Engaged Campus (FIPSE-grant). She holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor in Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC School of Public Health. Her interests center on public service and how people work together to address issues of shared concern. Specific areas of experience include collaboration, community-building and community-based health improvement.
Patti Clayton, Ph.D., www.curricularengagement.com
A Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a Visiting Fellow with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE). She has served as a consultant with over 30 schools, universities, and higher education organizations. She was founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement at NC State University and previously served as a Faculty Fellow with National Campus Compact’s Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study. Clayton has ten years of experience as a practitioner-scholar in community-engaged teaching and learning, including leading a multi-faceted scholarship agenda, College-level institutionalization efforts, discipline-based and multi-disciplinary faculty learning communities, engaged graduate and undergraduate education initiatives, and a range of intra- and inter-institutional collaborations. Her work focuses on building the capacity of individuals, units, institutions, and the field as a whole for scholarly community-engaged teaching and learning.
North Carolina Campus Compact, http://org.elon.edu/nccc/about/index.html
NC Campus Compact is a coalition of colleges and universities collaborating to increase campus-wide participation in community and public service. Presidents commit their institutions to join with other schools in becoming “engaged campuses” that enhance students’ sense of responsibility, citizenship, leadership and awareness of community, while reinvigorating higher education’s concern for improving the quality of life in North Carolina. NC Campus Compact is a member of National Campus Compact.
While member campuses have established visions to create civically-minded graduates who understand the value of volunteering and service, the Compact state office works to provide resources, training and opportunities that campuses may not be able to pursue individually. Elon University serves as the Compact’s host and fiscal agent.
Assist Presidents, Chancellors & Chief Administrators to promote civic engagement on their campuses and across the state:
- Prepare briefing packets related to civic engagement for Presidents and Chancellors to utilize in speeches, publications, and strategic plans.
- Create Chief Academic and Student Affairs Officer Committee; to hold annual meetings in order to connect academic and student affairs support of civic engagement.
- Form Councils on Civic Engagement within campuses; to be appointed by Chief Academic and Student Affairs Officers.
- Collect and disseminate articles written by Presidents and Chancellors related to the civic mission of higher education.
- Hold first Presidents and Chancellors annual meeting.
- Create presidents quarterly newsletter.
Consultants to Assist UNCG
John Saltmarsh, Director, New England Resources Center for Higher Education, UMass-Boston
George Mehaffy, Vice President of Organizational Change and Leadership, AASCU
Saltmarsh and Mehaffy visited as guest speakers at the 2009 Speaker Series hosted by the OLSL. George is a willing and enthusiastic supporter of the OLSL and is willing to continue to assist UNCG in its movement to enhance capacity for community-engaged teaching and scholarship.
Amy Driscoll, visiting scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Driscoll is currently a scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teahcing where she coordinates the development and piloting of the new elective classification for campuses engaged with communities. She was previously director of Community/University Partnerships at Portland State University and director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at California State University Monterey Bay. Her recent publications include: “Tracing the Scholarship of Engagement through My Professional Memoirs” in Faculty Rewards Considered: Lessons Learned, New Directions (O’Meara & Rice, 2005); and “Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Administrators: Supporting the Scholarship of Civic Engagement” in Public Work & the Academy (Langseth & Plater, 2004). She also co-authored Making Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach with E. Lynton (1999), and Assessing Service Learning and Civic Engagement: Principles and Techniques (2001) with her colleagues from Portland State University (Gelmon, Holland, Spring, and Kerrigan). Dr. Driscoll has mentored more than 40 campuses across the country in the development of curricular civic engagement and associated scholarship. She is currently co-director of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement.
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Presentations
The Scholarship of Engagement: Engaged Scholarly Work Across the Faculty Roles
Presented by Dwight Giles, Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program, UMass-Boston, and John Saltmarsh, Director of New England Resource Center for Higher Education. (2008)
Engaging Students: Implications for Teaching and Learning
Presented by John Saltmarsh at UNCG, March5, 2009.
Engaged Departments
Presented by John Saltmarsh at UNCG, March 5, 2009.
Engagement: A Strategy for Transformation
Presented by George Mehaffy at UNCG, March 5, 2009.
Building the University’s Capacity for Community Engagement (Notes produced by Patti Clayton, PHC Ventures)
Notes of Saltmarsh and Mehaffy presentations at UNCG, March 5, 2009.
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Key Articles to Support Community Engagement Work
- Bjarnason, S. and P. Coldstream, eds., 2003. The Idea of Engagement: Universities in Society, London: Association of Commonwealth Universities.
- Boyer, E. 1996. “The Scholarship of Engagement,” Journal of Public Service & Outreach, 1, no. 1, Spring. P. 11-20.
- Lynton, E.A. 1994, “Knowledge and Scholarship,” Metropolitan Universities Journal.
- Schon, D. 1995. “The New Scholarship Requires a New Epistemology,” Change. Nov./Dec., Vol. 27, No. 6, p. 26, 9p.*
- Saltmarsh, J., Giles, D. Jr., Ward, E. and Buglione, S. M. (chapter). Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship.
- Bringle, R. G., Hatcher, J. A., & Clayton, P. H. (2006). The Scholarship of Civic Engagement: Defining, Documenting, and Evaluating Faculty Work. To Improve the Academy, 25, 257-279.*
- Bringle, R.G., Hatcher, J.A., and Holland, B. (2007). Conceptualizing civic engagement: Orchestrating change at a metropolitan university. Metropolitan Universities, 18(3), 57-74.
- Cohen, J. (2008). A Portrait of a University as a Young Citizen. In D. W. Brown and D. Witte (Eds.). Agent of Democracy: Higher Education and the HEX Journey, pp. 149-169. Dayton: Kettering Foundation
* indicates availability in Jackson Library
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Key Books to Support Community Engagement Work
- Van de Ven, Andrew H. Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research. Oxford University Press, 2007. * (copy also available at OLSL)
- Dzure, A. W. Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity and Practice. University Park: Penn State Press, 2008.*
- O’Meara, K., and Ricker, R. E. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.*
Kerry Ann O’Meara was brought to UNCG in April 2009 by Dean Celia Hooper. This book was distributed to all HHP faculty. - Kecskes, K., ed. Engaging Departments: Moving Faculty Culture from Private to Public, Individual to Collective, Focus for the Common Good. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.*
25 copies of this book were purchased and distributed by Interim Vice Provost Micheline Chalhoub-Deville to faculty who attended the OLSL March 5th, 2009 Speaker Series. Additional copies were provided to administrators she directly supervised. - Colby, A., Ehrlich, T., Beaumont, E. and Stephens, J. Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.*
- Eberly, R. A. and J. Cohen, eds. A Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 105. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
* indicates availability in Jackson Library
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Reports
Building Capacity for Community Engagement: Strategic Areas for Advancement at UNCG
White Paper written by Emily Janke and Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, April 9, 2009.
Council on Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Benchmarking Engagement Update – June 10, 2009
The APLU Council on Engagement and Outreach identified the need for mechanisms that create a better shared understanding of principles and practices of engagement in higher education. Council leadership has envisioned a web-based system to collect and provide public access to consistent information from APLU member institutions. The system would be consistent with previous national assessment efforts and existing tools and is organized around six broad dimensions of engagement.