Community Engagement Professional's Guidebook
A Companion to The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education
Published on 30. January 2019
250 pages
978-1-945459-20-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a companion guide to Campus Compact's successful publication The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education. In the first text, Campus Compact Research Fellows - led by award-winning scholar-practitioner Lina D. Dostilio - identified a core of set of competencies needed by professionals charged with leading community engaged work on college campuses. In this companion guide, Dostilio teams up with Marshall Welch to build on the initial framework by offering guidance for how a community engagement professional (CEP) should conceptualize, understand, and develop their practice in each of the original competency areas. Over 10 chapters the authors address questions for those "e;brand new to the role"e; and interested in how to start a community engagement unit or center, or from people who are considering jobs doing the work on a campus, or from individuals "e;are trying to navigate the political environment on their campuses to expand and deepen their unit's reach."e;The Guidebook offers a rich and deep dive, breaking down the essential components of a professional's work. From mentoring faculty research, leading campaigns to build civic engagement curriculum on campus, to managing the staff who support community engagement units, Dostilio and Welch tackle the breadth of the CEP's work by drawing on key resources and their own decades of experience in the field. Throughout the book, readers will encounter "e;Compass Points"e; that call for personal reflection and engagement with the text. These interactive moments combine with end-of-chapter questions to prompt thinking about a CEP's critical commitments, to create a powerful and engaging toolkit that will be essential for any person doing community and civic engagement work on campus.
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Marshall Welch is the Assistant Vice Provost for Engagement at Saint Mary¿s College of California. Prior to this role, he was the Director of the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action (CILSA) overseeing the service-learning and community engagement program at Saint Mary¿s College. Before coming to Saint Mary¿s College in 2007, Marshall was the Director of the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center at the University of Utah and a faculty member in the College of Education. He also hosted the third annual conference on service-learning research in 2003 and co-edited a book entitled, New Perspective in Service-Learning: Research to Advance the Field.
