Research Report: Using institutional data to understand the impacts of community engagement across the country

Posted by Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities on March 11, 2025

This report presents initial findings from a national study of the community impact of community-campus partnerships authored by CUMU–Collaboratory Research Fellow Paul J.Kuttner, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, and Erin Clouse and Tanner Ellison, University of Utah Health.

Paul Kuttner, Ed.D., formerly associate director of University Neighborhood Partners at the University of Utah, was named the 2023 CUMU-Collaboratory Research Fellow. During his fellowship, Kuttner collaborated with his colleague Erin Clouse, director of strategy and alignment for University of Utah Medical Group, to leverage Collaboratory data to conduct a mixed methods study examining outcomes and impacts of community engagement in higher education and how they are ​​conceptualized, measured, and facilitated across institutions.

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