Community-Engaged Scholarship Links

Publishing Community-based Research: What it Takes
Dr. Hallett offered a perspective about the opportunities, challenges, and rewards of doing community-based research, with a focus on Jacksonville. UNF’s emergent focus on community-based learning offers a unique opportunity for faculty to engage in what French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls “scholarship with commitment.” Dr. Hallett discussed recommendations for managing the tenure track around the pitfalls of community-based research. He also shared strategies for preparing, delivering and ultimately publishing finite research projects cultivated from community engagement.
View the presentation slides.

Books available in the OFE Library (10/1106) on Community-Based Scholarship Teaching and Learning:

Jacoby, B., et al. (1996). Service Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
Kaye, C. B. (2004). The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing.
Strand, K., Marullo, S., Cutforth, N., Stoecker, R., & Donohue, P. (2003). Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Welch, M., & Billig, S. H., (Eds.). (2004). New Perspectives in Service-Learning: Research to Advance the Field. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Contact the Office of Faculty Enhancement to reserve these books.

Community-engaged scholarship toolkit
The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit is intended as a resource for community-engaged faculty on how to "make their best case" for promotion and tenure. Over a dozen recently promoted and/or tenured faculty members have graciously "donated" excerpts from their portfolios for posting on the toolkit.

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.

Community-engaged scholarship resources from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH):

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.
Portfolio excerpts from community-engaged faculty members who have been promoted and/or tenured.
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.

"Practical tools for overcoming the challenges of advancing your career as an engaged scholar" by Cathy Jordan, Co-Director of Faculty for the Engaged Campus.

The Community-Engaged Scholarship Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT) Package is designed to help RPT committees to understand community-engaged scholarship and how to assess its quality and impact. Download the package.

Community-engaged scholarship resources

Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions

Faculty for the Engaged Campus

Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography June 2008 - Vol. 40 Issue 3 Page 345-497

Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) has resources, research articles, tools, and syllabi relating specifically to dozens of higher education disciplines. One of the newest tools is our Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples (SLICE) database - your one-stop-shop for service-learning lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas that is searchable by setting, discipline, and area of service. Try searching SLICE yourself to see what we have relating to economics.

Putting the Invisible Hand to Work: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Economics

Increasing Creativity in Economics: The Service Learning Project

Service-Learning and the Economics Course: Theory and Practice

Next time you're looking for ways to start a service-learning project, support and grow your current initiatives, or find research on service-learning and relating topics try searching the NSLC library catalog.

Other Universities' CBL Resources:
University of Alaska Anchorage

Notre Dame University

California State