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Relevant Articles:
These are some excellent articles that may be relevant to teams' project work. We will continue to grow this resource. (Note: if a link is dead, try searching for it online).
Community Asset Mapping Guides
- For a campus process: Connecting to Success: Neighborhood Networks Asset-Mapping Guide, published on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) website. This is an excellent guide, including web-sites for searches. This guide could help campuses that are looking to conduct a high-level asset-mapping process.
- For training students and delegating aspects of asset-mapping to them: Community Asset Mapping: A Critical Strategy for Service training module, in the Bonner Curriculum, draws on the work of Kretzmann and McKnight. This training breaks the asset-mapping process into something that students can do, including a campus asset-mapping process.
- Literature resource: Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets by John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight. This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U.S. It outlines what local communities can do to start their own journies down the path of asset-based development. This book contains many activities, some of which are drawn on in the HUD guide and training module.
- NEW in 2014! Asset-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education edited by John Hamerlinck and Julie Plaut. This book represents an invaluable new resource for grassroots leaders and university scholars committed to resident-led revitalization in distressed communities. It highlights an impressive set of town-gown partnerships whose leaders have used Kretzmann and McKnight’s asset- based approach to community development to transcend the formidable racial, class, religious, age, and gender barriers that often undermine efforts to build more equitable, sustainable, and democratic communities.
Readings (Alphabetical by title, with brief annotation)
Carnegie Classification (tips for application)
This presentation can familiarize you with the revised application and its nuances. This was given by Mathew Johnson at the Fall Directors Meeting.
Challenge and Change, by George Mehaffy, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
(published in Educause Review, September/October 2012)
This article explores some of the major challenges facing higher education today, including the development of new cost models, course models, online learning, and other societal changes that are "disruptive technologies" and innovations.
This is an excellent article, and especially helpful for those looking to include X College or online learning models.
Collective Impact, by John Kania and Mark Kramer.
(published in Stanford Social Innovation Review). This article covers the framework for collective impact, which we are utilizing for the High-Impact Initiative and which addresses the creation of social and community impact measures across organizations.
Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education: Forging New Pathways, edited by Ariane Hoy and Mathew Johnson.
Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education demonstrates how colleges and universities can enhance the engagement of their students, faculty, and institutional resources in their communities. This volume features strategies to make this work deep, pervasive, integrated, and developmental, qualities recognized by the Carnegie Classification guidelines and others in higher education as best practice. The chapters share perspectives, frameworks, knowledge, and practices of more than a dozen institutions of higher education that practice community engagement in sustained ways, drawing on their connections to more than two decades' experience in the Bonner Foundation network. Perspectives from these campuses and respected scholars and practitioners in the field present proven models for student leadership and development, sustained partnerships, faculty engagement, institutionalization of campus centers, and changes to teaching and learning.
Engaging Departments (2006)
Engaging Departments fills an important niche in the literature on institutional engagement and advances the National Campus Compact agenda to create engaged departments. Representing a range of disciplines and institutional types—including two-year and four-year, public and private, comprehensive and research—this work features case studies of 11 departments and their journeys to engagement. The book presents readers with transferable steps and strategies, key factors that helped move civic engagement from the individual faculty level to the collective departmental level, an analysis of successes and barriers, and visions for the future. Also outlined are engagement efforts at the institutional and state levels.
Rubric for departments: Creating community-engaged departments: Self-assessment rubric for the institutionalization of community engagement in academic departments (2009)
How Colleges Can Spark Economic and Community Development, by Richard Guarasci, Wagner College
(published in Huffington Post, August 22, 2012)
This article delves into some strategies for colleges and universities to address the economic, employment, and development needs of neighboring communities. The ideas here may particularly help campuses who are working on creating community centers and hubs for linking high-impact practices and community engagement.
Medieval Models, Agrarian Calendars, and 21st-Century Imperatives, by George Mehaffy, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
(published in Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University Fall 2010, Volume 2, Number 1)
This article explores three forces—declining funding, rising expectations and rapidly developing technology—that are challenging public higher education. The ideas here may help those who are seeking to change institutional structures to support the integration of community engagement.
Outward Bound and community service learning: An experiment in connected knowing, by Helen Fouhey and John Saltmarsh
(published in The Journal of Experiential Education August/September 1996, Volume 19, No. 2)
This article describes how an experiment in connecting an Outward Bound course with community service, with a focus on students' affective development, resulted in deepening students' capacity for connection, reflection, and understanding the purpose of their education as a means for commitment in a democratic culture. The design and reflection principles may help those who are working on first year experience programs.
The New Scholarship Requires a New Epistemology, by Donald A. Schoen
(published in Change, Nov/Dec95, Vol. 27 Issue 6, p26, 9p, 4c)
This article explores new forms of scholarship that are much closer to practice. The article explains "epistemology" and how it can change to include more support for reflective practice and application within a community context. This article may be especially helpful to faculty members and administrators seeking to broaden the support of and institutionalization of new pedagogies and community-engaged learning.
The Scholarship of Community Partner Voice, by Sean Creighton
(published in The Higher Education Exchange, 2008, The Kettering Foundation)
This article explores the challenges of working collaboratively with community partners to reframe scholarship, teaching and learning. It presents many helpful critiques and considerations for language. This article may be especially helpful as teams explore how to bring partners and faculty together on projects.
Why Faculty Promotion and Tenure Matters to Community Partners, by Elmer Freeman, Susan Gust, and Deborah Aloshen
In this article, three community partners, experienced with and engaged in partnerships between universities and communities with varying challenges of success and failure, examine the specific challenge of review, promotion, and tenure for community-engaged faculty.
Reading List from 2012 used at Fall Directors' Meeting and for High-Impact Initiative
A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future,
by The National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2012.
“Connecting with Community Power”, by Nina Porter, Northern Arizona University (a student), published in Diversity and Democracy, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2011
2 page article
Democratic Engagement White Paper, by John Saltmarsh, Matt Hartley, and Patti Clayton, published by New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2009.
13 page article
Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education by Susan Sturm, Tim Eatman, John Saltmarsh, and Adam Bush, 2011
13 page article
High-Impact Educational Practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter, by George D. Kuh, published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2008.
15 pages of larger report.
Navigating the Power Dynamic Between Institutions and their Communities, by Byron P. White, a study for the Kettering Foundation, 2009.
18 page (double-spaced) report
“Putting Students at the Center of Civic Engagement”, by Richard M. Battistoni and Nicholas V. Longo, in To Serve a Larger Purpose: Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education, Temple University Press, 2011.
“To Democracy's Detriment: What Is the Current Evidence, and What if We Fail to Act Now?”, by Carol Geary Schneider, essay in Civic Provocations, published by Bringing Theory to Practice, 2012.
5 page article
“Why Now? Because This Is a Copernican Moment”, by David Scobey, essay in Civic Provocations, published by Bringing Theory to Practice, 2012. 4 page article
“Why Service Learning Is Bad”, by John W. Eby, March 1998. 8 page article
"Without practice there's no knowledge", Chapter 3 of We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton and Paolo Freire, 1990. Read the first 20 or so pages (starts with pdf on page 97); skim additional if desired (in this double-spaced smaller paged chapter)
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