• General

• Resources for Governance and Management

• Regional/National Topics

• University Portraits

• Grant and Award Sources

General

• Auditing, Benchmarking and Evaluating Public Engagement — A Briefing Paper by Angie Hart, Simon Northmore, and Chloe Gerhardt, published by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement

• Background Document for the University of Victoria Task Force on Civic Engagement, Cornelia Dragne, 15 September 2007. Overview on civic engagement in higher education, including case studies of university civic engagement programs.

• Characterising modes of university engagement with wider society, a literature review and survey of best practice — A June 2009 report produced for Newcastle University’s Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) by a team led by Paul Benneworth and Cheryl Conway.

• Constructing Experiential Learning for Online Courses: The Birth of E-Service — This 2004 article discusses the integration of a service-learning component for online courses

• Democracy, Civic Participation, and the University: A Comparative Study of Civic Engagement on Five Campuses — A 2004 article by Tufts University Professor Susan A. Ostrander in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

• Developing Access between Universities and Local Community Groups: A University Helpdesk in Action — A 2009 article in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement discusses the community engagement Helpdesk at the University of Brighton’s Community University Partnership Programme (Cupp).

• Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum — A guide developed by the Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group.

• The Engaging Researcher — Created by the The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement in 2010, this guide sets out to help researchers develop their approaches to engaging with the public.

• Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development — A report published in August 2007 by the Democracy Collaborative of the University of Maryland.

• New Times Demand New Scholarship: A Leadership Agenda for Research Universities and Civic Engagement (PDF document) — A 2005 conference report from Campus Compact and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.

• Practical Tools for Overcoming the Challenges of Advancing Your Career as a Community-engaged Scholar — This essay by Cathy Jordan of the University of Minnesota reviews the challenges, in terms of developing skills, securing recognition for community-engaged scholarly work, and particularly in successfully navigating the promotion and tenure (P and T) system.

• Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit — A toolkit created by The Research University Community Engagement Network (TRUCEN)

• Sample Syllabi/Course Outlines which include Community Service-Learning — Gathered in a study led by Dr. Mark Baetz from the  Laurier Centre for Community Service-Learning at Wilfrid Laurier University.

• Service Learning: Dialogue between Universities and Communities — A survey report completed by CIVICUS which highlights student survey responses relating to higher education and community engagement.

• The Use of Technology in Higher Education Service-Learning — A 2003 article from Campus-Community Partnerships for Health.

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Resources for Governance and Management

• Building Capacity for Community Engagement: Institutional Self-Assessment — A civic engagement self-assessment tool provided by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.

• Good Practice Guide and Self-evaluation Instruments for Managing the Quality of Service-Learning – The Council on Higher Education and Higher Education Quality Committee in South Africa developed this guide, which includes instruments for all levels of implementation and practice.

• Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Higher Education — This self-assessment tool created by Andy Furco measures institutions on five dimensions which are considered by most service-learning experts to be key factors for higher education service-learning institutionalization.
  

• Self-Assessment Tool for Service-Learning Sustainability — Campus Community Partnerships for Health developed this tool to help assess the institutionalization of service-learning at universities.

• Shumer’s Self-Assessment for Service-Learning — Rob Shumer with the Center for Experiential and Service Learning at the University of Minnesota published this tool in December 2000 to help universities assess their service-learning programs.

• Strategies for Creating an Engaged Campus: An Advanced Service-Learning Toolkit for Academic Leaders — This site from the US university network Campus Compact is designed for college and university presidents, provosts, chief academic officers, and deans who wish to deepen the civic education of their students and to increase the engagement of their institutions with their local communities. The following topics are highlighted:
• Defining the Engaged Campus
• Assessing Current Activities
• Strategic Planning for Engagement
• Faculty Development
• Specific Change Strategies
• Counting and Measuring Civic Engagement

Regional/National Topics

• Academia, Industry and Community Collaboration in Malaysia: Strategies and Opportunities for the Future — A paper presented by Dr. Saran Kaur Gill, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Industry and Community Partnerships), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

• “Beyond Rhetoric: University-Community Engagement in Victoria.” Alexandra Winter, John Wiseman, and Bruce Muirhead. Eidos. July 2005. A study of higher education civic engagement in Victoria, Australia, including the Australian Catholic University, University of Ballarat, Swinburne Institute of Technology, and University of Melbourne.

• The Funding and Development of Community University Research Partnerships in Canada — Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria (May 2009). This report maps out the sources and types of funding that have been created to support community university research partnerships, and describes the current state of development of arrangements between public post secondary institutions and community organizations.

• Higher Education, Community-Engagement and the Public Good: The Future of Continuing Education in Canada — Budd L Hall, Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria. Hall addresses the challenges and potential of continuing education within the Canadian context, and recommends that institutions sign the Talloires Declaration.
  

• Higher Education, Community Service and Local Development — Victor A. Arredondo and Mario Fernandez de la Garza, State of Veracruz, Mexico. Paper presented at the CHE-HEQC/JET-CHESP Conference on Community Engagement in Higher Education 3 to 5 September 2006.

• Recasting the Role of Youth in the MENA Region and Beyond: Civic Engagement as a Tool for Learning, Empowerment, and Social Change — Paper presented by Serdar M. Degirmencioglu of Beykent University at Aga Khan University’s Conference on Higher Education in Developing Countries: With a Focus on Muslim Contexts in February 2005.

• Towards a South African scholarship of engagement: core and supplementary tasks of a university? — Keynote address at the CHE-HEQC/JET-CHESP Conference on Community Engagement in Higher Education 3 to 5 September 2006 by Prof. Frederick Fourie, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

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University Portrait

• Best Practices in Service-Learning in Defiance College’s Business Program, Dr. Wayne Buchanan, Defiance College, April 2007.
  

• Community Engagement at the University for Development Studies, John B. Kaburise, University of Development Studies, Ghana. Paper presented at the CHE-HEQC/JET-CHESP Conference on Community Engagement in Higher Education 3 to 5 September 2006.

• Community Service Programmes in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Sharifah Hapsah Shahabudin, VC of UK Malaysia. Presented at 11th. UNESCO-APEID Conference, “Reinventing Higher Education: Toward Participatory and Sustainable Development”, 12-14 December 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.
  

• “Democracy, Civic Participation, and the University: A Comparative Study of Civic Engagement on Five Campuses,” Ostrander, Susan. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2004) 33.74. Case studies of five US universities’ civic engagement programs, including Brown University and Portland State University.

• Frameworks for Community Sector Partnership and Engagement, Howard P, Ryan, Butcher J, Surrey, Lyons & Bright. Paper presented at the International Conference on Engaging Communities, 14-17 August 2005. A case study of Australian Catholic University’s partnerships with community organizations.

• The Ivory Tower and Beyond: Bradford University at the Heart of Its Communities, Jenny Pearce, Martin Pearson, and Dr. Sam Cameron. A report on Bradford University’s approach to civic engagement.
  

• Portraits of Practice: Social Responsiveness in Teaching and Research at the University of Cape Town (2005): Judith Favish, First draft of a paper commissioned by the HEQC – JET/CHESP for joint publication.

• Student Engagement at Swinburne University of Technology, Lilydale, Anne Langworthy, Joan Howard and Jessica Sharp.  May 2006.  A report on SUTL’s civic engagement activities.

• Universities and Social Commitment Observatory. A project of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), the Observatory promotes innovation and knowledge exchange in society and higher education institutions by identifying and disseminating global, regional and local higher education good practices through an ongoing platform.
  

Grant and Award Sources

• DoSomething.org — A US-based organization offering various small grants and awards for youth civic engagement.
  
• Higher Education for Development — This program affiliated with USAID provides funding for partnerships between US and international universities around development issues.
• Jenzabar Foundation — This foundation issues grants to institutions of higher education in support of service-based student activities.
• Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation - A Foundation whose mission is to foster campus-community partnerships for academic service and learning. The Foundation offers several monetary awards for higher education civic engagement, including the Campus Community Parternship Award and the Community Academic Service Entrepreneur Award (CASE)
• Pearson Prize for Higher Education — This Prize rewards those students who have made a significant impact on their local campus and/ or in their local community through work on specific projects and programs. The Prize will offer 20 awards of $20,000 each, and 50 awards of $500 each. Students must be US citizens or permanent residents to apply.
• Outreach Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award and the C. Peter Magrath University/Community Engagement Award – These awards, offered by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Kellogg Foundation, recognize the outreach and engagement partnership efforts of American four-year public universities.
• Students in Service Awards — University students in the US demonstrating leadership on community engagement are eligible to apply for this award, which provides a $5000 scholarship to a first prize winner and $2500 scholarships each to two second prize winners as well as awards to the students’ universities and community partners.
• TakingITGlobal’s Financial Opportunities — Search for awards, contests, grants, and scholarships

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