Outreach and Engagement Links

 

Resources for Outreach Work

The following resources can assist you in discussing, developing, and/or evaluating outreach and scholarship within your unit. Please share additional resources to be included in this listing: e-mail webmaster.

Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Campus Compact 20th Anniversary Visioning Papers. A More Perfect Vision: The Future of Campus Engagement
http://www.compact.org/resources/a-more-perfect-vision-the-future-of-campus-engagement/1219/

Committee on Institutional Cooperation: Committee on Engagement (Peer Group)
http://www.cic.net/db/memDisp1.asp?id=281

Glassick, Charles E.; Huber, Mary Taylor; Maeroff, Gene I. Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Integrating Community-Based Work and Scholarship: in this video presentation, Jennifer Evans Cowley, associate professor, City and Regional Planning, describes how she integrates research and service successfully through her service-learning courses.

Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities. Returning to Our Roots: The Engaged Institution. Washington, DC: NASULGC, 1999.

The Outreach & Engagement Community in the Knowledge Bank includes concurrent and plenary sessions from the 2006 Outreach Scholarship Conference held in Columbus and full text of recent Patterson Lectures.

Publication Outlets for Outreach and Engagement Scholarship

Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement

A peer-reviewed publication that serves as a forum to promote continuing dialogue about the service and outreach mission of universities and to foster understanding of how the service and outreach mission relates to the teaching and research missions as well as the needs of society. Edited by Melvin B. Hill, Jr., the journal is published by the Institute of Higher Education and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach of the University of Georgia. http://www.uga.edu/ihe/jheoe.html

Action Research

iAn international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that is a forum for the development of the theory and practice of action research and for participative, action oriented inquiry into questions relevant to people in the conduct of their lives. Publishes articles on community-based and participatory research. http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201642

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

Provides a strategic forum for international and multidisciplinary dialogue for all academic educators and educational policy-makers concerned with the meanings and form of citizenship and social justice. http://esj.sagepub.com/

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

Concerned with the practice and processes of community engagement: with ideas as to what constitutes engagement between universities and communities, with the theories and policies which enable community engagement and with the possibilities for sustainable collaborations and outcomes. Contributions will be either fully peer-reviewed or nonpeer-reviewed articles. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ijcre/about (requires login)

Information for Action—A Journal on Service-Learning Research with Children and Youth

Articles are welcomed from three audiences: academic researchers who wish to report on current research efforts dealing with some aspect of service-learning (including teacher preparation), teachers and other practitioners who wish to share their studies and reflections on service-learning implementation that integrates theory with practice, and articles/reports by youth on research/evaluation initiatives that add something new to the service-learning literature. http://www.service-learningpartnership.org

Journal for Civic Commitment

Twice-yearly, online journal dedicated to service learning and civic engagement, published by the Community College National Center for Community Engagement. http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement/Journal/index.shtml

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship

First issue Fall 2008, published by the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Manuscripts are invited for this new peer-reviewed journal that is intended to provide a mechanism for the dissemination of scholarly works from all disciplines that integrate teaching, research, service, and community engagement. Information and submissions: jces@ua.edu; http://www.jces.ua.edu

Metropolitan Universities Journal

Published quarterly by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis on behalf of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, topics include curriculum reform, student retention, assessment, fundraising, faculty culture and governance, diversity, and civic engagement. Recent themes include K-16 collaborations, service learning, campus-community partnerships. http://muj.uc.iupui.edu/index.htm

Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning & Civic Engagement

The articles in this peer-reviewed journal focus on how theories and practices can inform and improve such partnerships, connections, and collaborations. Studies co-authored by faculty, students, and/or community partners; or examining practices across disciplines or campuses; or exploring international networks are all encouraged. http://www.partnershipsjournal.org/index.php/part

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Facilitates dissemination of programs that use community partnerships to improve public health, to promote progress in the methods of research and education involving community health partnerships, and to stimulate action that will improve the health of people in communities. Dedicated to supporting the work of community health partnerships that involve ongoing collaboration between community representatives and academic or governmental partners. http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/progress_in_community_health_partnerships/

Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal

Explores constructive connections between science education and civic engagement. It focuses on using unsolved, complex civic issues as a framework to develop students’ understanding of the role of scientific knowledge in personal and public decision making. Published articles include topical reviews, research studies on teaching and learning, and connections between science education and public policy. Published by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. http://www.seceij.net

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