Community-Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education: An Action Agenda

Posted by on October 14, 2013

The latest issue of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning includes “Community-Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education: An Action Agenda” co-authored by CCPH senior consultant Sherril Gelmon, CES4Health editor Cathy Jordan and CCPH executive director Sarena Seifer.

Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Academy: An Action Agenda
by Sherril B. Gelmon, Catherine Jordan, and Sarena D. Seifer

Over the past decade or more, national commissions, professional associations, and accrediting and funding agencies have identified community engagement as a core mission of higher education. Students, faculty, and community partners all benefit from moving the classroom to the community (and back again).

Community-engaged research has also gained recognition as a legitimate approach to producing and mobilizing knowledge. Yet as changes to curricula and research within programs or institutions (and in some cases across disciplines or clusters of disciplines) have moved forward, there has not been similar progress in reforming definitions of scholarship to include multiple forms of research that engage the community and have a meaningful impact on it.

Read more at: http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2013/July-August%202013/community-engaged-abstract.html