What is Engaged Scholarship?

Key Readings

• Post. M. Ward, E., Longo, N. & Saltmarsh, J. (Eds.) (2016). Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.

• Stanton, T. (2007). New times demand new scholarship II: Research universities and civic engagement – opportunities and challenges.  Report of The Research University Community Engagement Network (TRUCEN).

Additional Resources

• Academic Affairs Committee of the Syracuse University Senate. (2007). Learning about scholarship in action in concept and practice: A white paper.  
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities. (2002). Stepping forward as stewards of place: A guide for leading public engagement at state colleges and universities. Washington, DC: AASCU.

• Barge, J. & Shockley-Zalabak, P. (2008). Engaged scholarship and the creation of useful organizational knowledge. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 36 (3), 251-265.

• Benson, L. Harkavy, I., & Puckett, J. (2007). Dewey’s dream: Universities and democracies in an age of education reform (especially pp. 77-113). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

• Boyer, E. (1996). The scholarship of engagement.  Journal of Public Service and Outreach, 1(1), 11-20.

• Boyer, E. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

• Bradbury-Huang, H. (2010). What is good action research? Why the resurgent interest? Action Research, 8(1), 93-109.

• Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. (2005). Linking scholarship and communities: Report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. Seattle: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.

• Community Based Research Collaborative (2007).  Guidelines for community based research.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah.

• Cooper, D. (2009).  The university in national development: The role of use-inspired research. Proposed comparative case studies of community-engaged research.  Original Toolkit essay.

• Couto, R. (2001). The promise of a scholarship of engagement. Academic Workplace,  4-7.

• Ellison, Julie (2013). The New Public Humanists. PMLA, 128(2), 289-298.

• Giles, D.E., Jr., (2008). Understanding an emerging field of scholarship: Toward a research agenda for engaged, public scholarship. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 12 (2)2, 97-106.

• Haft, J. Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Humanities, Arts and Design. Animating Democracy.

• Holland, et al. (2010). Models of engaged scholarship: An interdisciplinary discussion. Collaborative Anthropologies, 3, 1-36.

• Horowitz, C.R., Robinson, M., & Seifer, S. (2009). Community-Based Participatory Research From the Margin to the Mainstream: Are Researchers Prepared? Circulation, 119, 2633-2642.

• Howard, J. (2007). Powerpoint slide of a Venn diagram that reflects the three essential components of engaged scholarship: involves the community, benefits the community, and advances the faculty member’s scholarship. University of Michigan.

• Howard, J. (2007). Powerpoint slide: Distinguishing engaged scholarship from faculty volunteering and professional service. University of Michigan.

• Howard, J. (2007) Powerpoint slide: Is it engaged scholarship? An exploratory assessment heuristic to assist campuses in determining whether or not a community-engaged project qualifies as engaged scholarship. University of Michigan.

• Janke, E.M., & Shelton, T.L. (2011). Community Engagement: Terms and Definitions for Promotion and Tenure Guidelines. Community Engagement Initiative, University of North Carolina Greensboro. 1-10.  

• Jacquez, F., Vaughn, L. M., & Wagner, E. (2013). Youth as partners, participants or passive recipients: A review of children and adolescents in community-based participatory research (CBPR). American Journal of Community Psychology, 51(1-2), 176-189.

• Kasworm, C. E., & Abdrahim, N. A. (2014). Scholarship of engagement and engaged scholars: Through the eyes of exemplars. Journal of higher education outreach and engagement, 18(2), 121-148.

• Kinsler, K. (2010). The utility of educational action research for emancipatory change. Action Research, 8(2), 171-189.

• Kruss, G. (2012). Reconceptualizing engagement: a conceptual framework for analyzing university interaction with external social partners. South African Review of Sociology, 43(2), 5-26.  

• Michigan State University Committee on Evaluating Quality Outreach. (1996, 2000). Points of distinction: A guidebook for planning and evaluating quality outreach. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement.

• Minkler, M., Garcia, A.P., Rubin, V. & Wallerstein, N. (2012).  Community-based participatory research: A strategy for building healthy communities and promoting health through policy change.  Oakland, CA: PolicyLink.

• Nyden, P. (2006) The challenges and opportunities of engaged research. In Silka, L., ed., Scholarship in action: Applied research and community change (HUD’s Office of University Partnerships).

• O’Meara, K. & Rice, R.E. (2005). Faculty priorities reconsidered: Rewarding multiple forms of scholarship. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass.

• Pine, G. (2009). Teacher action research: Building democracies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1-396.  

• Presidents’ Fourth of July declaration on the civic responsibility of higher education (1999). Campus Compact.   

• Rice, R.E. (2003). Rethinking scholarship and engagement: The struggle for new meanings.  Campus Compact Reader, pp. 1-9

• Roche, B., Guta, A., & Flicker, S. (2010). Peer research in action I: Models of practice. Community Based Research Working Paper Series. The Wellesley Institute, 2-18.  

• Sandmann, L. (2004). Powerpoint presentation: Where is the scholarship in the scholarship of engagement?

• Sandmann, L. (2008). Conceptualization of the scholarship of engagement in higher education: A strategic review, 1996-2006. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 12(1), 91-104.

• Sandmann, L. (2009).  Placing scholarly engagement “on the desk.” Original Toolkit essay.

• Schön, D. (1995). Knowing-in-action: The new scholarship requires a new epistemology.  Change, 32(1), Nov-Dec, 44-52.

• Shirk, J. L., Ballard, H. L., Wilderman, C. C., Phillips, T., Wiggins, A., Jordan, R., & Bonney, R. (2012).  Public participation in scientific research: A framework for deliberate design. Ecology and Society, 17(2), Article 29.

• Smith, L., Bratini, L., Chambers, D.A., Jensen, R.V., & Romero, L. (2010). Between idealism and reality: Meeting the challenges of participatory action research. Action Research, 8(4), 407-425.

• Walshok, M. (1995). Knowledge without borders: What America’s research universities can do for the economy, the workplace, and the community.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.