Institutionalizing Community Engagement in Higher Education
The First Wave of Carnegie Classified Institutions: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 147
Published on 18. October 2011
112 pages
978-1-118-21678-1 (ISBN)
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Leading scholars of engagement analyze data from the first wave ofcommunity-engaged institutions as classified by the CarnegieFoundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The analysescollectively serve as a statement about the current status ofhigher education community engagement in the United States.Eschewing the usual arguments about why community engagement isimportant, this volume presents the first large-scale stocktakingabout the nature and extent of the institutionalization ofengagement in higher education. Aligned with the Carnegie CommunityEngagement Classification framework, the dimensions of leading,student learning, partnering, assessing, funding, and rewarding arediscussed.
This volume recognizes the progress made by this first wave ofcommunity-engaged institutions of higher education, acknowledgesbest practices of these exemplary institutions, and offersrecommendations to leaders as a pathway forward.
This is the 147th volume of the Jossey-Bass higher educationquarterly report series New Directions for HigherEducation. Addressed to presidents, vice presidents, deans,and other higher-education decision-makers on all kinds ofcampuses, New Directions for Higher Educationprovides timely information and authoritative advice about majorissues and administrative problems confronting everyinstitution.
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Academic advisors often encourage students to participate inservice-learning, study abroad, internships, and other activitiesthat help build their skills as global citizens and help them applythe concepts they learn in classrooms to the world around them. Inline with theorists like Pascarella and Terenzini (2005), academicadvisors advocate for engagement as a core component of studentdevelopment in the creation of academic plans for students. In thisengagement, students often participate in activities that requirethem to be part of what happens outside the institution. In orderto do this effectively, academic advisors must have anunderstanding as to the overall mission and vision of communityengagement. Institutionalizing community engagement in highereducation: The first wave of Carnegie classified institutionsprovides a backdrop for the nature and extent of theinstitutionalization of engagement across all levels of theuniversity. -- From NACADA Journal, Review by: Shannon Lynn Burton,Academic Advising Specialist, School of Criminal Justice, MichiganState UniversityMore details
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EDITORS'NOTES 1
Lorilee R. Sandmann, Courtney H. Thornton, Audrey J. Jaeger
1. Carnegie's New Community Engagement Classification:Affirming Higher Education's Role in Community 5
Amy Driscoll
A leader in the engagement movement offers insights on thepurpose and potential of the Carnegie Community EngagementClassification.
2. Leading the Engaged Institution 13
Lorilee R. Sandmann, William M. Plater
The experiences of successful institutions highlight theimportance and practices of strong organizational leadership.
3. Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship 25
John Saltmarsh, Dwight E. Giles Jr., Elaine Ward, Suzanne M.Buglione
Community engagement should be included in the definitions ofteaching, scholarship, and service used in faculty promotion andtenure.
4. Innovative Practices in Service-Learning and CurricularEngagement 37
Robert G. Bringle, Julie A. Hatcher
Because service-learning is the most important curricularvehicle of community engagement, new approaches must be devised toassess its quality.
5. Issues in Benchmarking and Assessing InstitutionalEngagement 47
Andrew Furco, William Miller
An assessment process provides the means to conduct a statuscheck of a campus's overall level of community engagement.
6. Understanding and Enhancing the Opportunities ofCommunity-Campus Partnerships 55
Carole Beere
A former outreach administrator examines campus-communitypartnerships and suggests how to make them productive andsustainable.
7. Engagement and Institutional Advancement 65
David Weerts, Elizabeth Hudson
Strong advancement programs are critical to providing necessaryresources for engagement.
8. After the Engagement Classification: Using OrganizationTheory to Maximize Institutional Understandings 75
Courtney H. Thornton, James J. Zuiches
Engagement efforts can be well served by attending to allaspects of the structure, politics, culture, and human resourcesthat enable institutions to fulfill this mission.
9. Will it Last? Evidence of Institutionalization at CarnegieClassified Community Engagement Institutions 85
Barbara A. Holland
As community engagement emerges as a central philosophy andpractice in higher education, the experiences with it provide acomplex portrait of organizational change.
10. The First Wave of Community-Engaged Institutions99
Lorilee R. Sandmann, Courtney H. Thornton, Audrey J.Jaeger
This chapter summarizes the key findings from the volume'sexaminations of the Carnegie applications and offers considerationsfor the future of engagement in higher education.
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