1. Community Engagement: A Continuum from Outreach to Engagement
Lynnette Young Overby, Sue Serra, Kate Colyer, Yasser Payne, Jon
Cox, Jules Bruck, and Ed Lewendowski
University of Delaware

2. Community Partner
Students
Faculty

3. Boyer – Scholarship Reconsidered (1990)
The Scholarship of Discovery
The Scholarship of Integration
The Scholarship of Application – Engagement
The Scholarship of Teaching

4. Scholarship Assessed (Glassick, Huber & Maeroff, 1997)
Standards of Scholarly Work
Clear Goals
Adequate Preparation
Appropriate Methods
Significant Results
Effective Presentation
Reflective Critique

6. Community Engagement Classification
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – 2015
Excellent alignment among campus mission, culture, leadership and resource
More work needed
Assessment, reciprocal partnerships, faculty awards and alignment with other institutional initiatives

7. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Community engagement describes the collaboration between higher education institutions and the larger communities (local, regional/state, national and global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity

8. Community-Based Research/Creative Activities Principles
Community-based research/Creative Activities takes place in community settings and involves community members in the design and implementation of the projects.
Such activities should demonstrate respect for the contributions of success which are made by community partners as well as respect for the principle of "doing no harm" to the communities involved.

9. Research/Creative Activities Examples
Research and Creative Activities
Applied research
Performances
Exhibits
Needs Assessments
Evaluation

10. Academic Service Learning
Service Learning is a method of teaching that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection.
Students improve their academic, social and analytical skills by applying what they learn in the classroom to the real world.
Reciprocal and balanced emphasis exists to ensure both student learning and a focus on the real needs of the community.

11. Service Learning

12. Service Learning Characteristics
Lasts at least one semester
Students involved in project planning
Academic content combined with structured reflection

13. Teaching Examples Service Learning Study Abroad
Participatory Curriculum Development

14. Service Examples New business ventures Clinical services
Policy analysis
Expert testimony
Commercialization of discoveries

15. Community Service Volunteerism
Focus is on the service provided and the service recipient
Specific service goals are achieved
Little emphasis on processing the experience
Not directly connected to a class
Pathway to employment

16. Community Service Volunteerism
MLK Day of Service
BHLP Alternative Break
UD Day of Service

17. A Continuum of Community Engagement
Community engagement describes the collaboration between higher education institutions and the larger communities (local, regional/state, national and global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity

18. Benefits for Students
Civic Engagement Application of disciplinary knowledge Focus on finding solutions to societal problems Gain critical thinking skills Learn to interact with diverse populations

19. Benefits to Faculty
Research by Kelly Ward and Tami Moore, Washington State University
Reclaiming the role of the educator
Lines between teaching, research and service become blurred when education is at the center
Education is not limited to the classroom
Pursuing Passion
Passion about community issue fuels faculty purpose.
Making a difference in the lives of community
Social justice orientation keeps passion

20. Benefits to Communities
Collaboration with the University to solve a problem
Access to university resources
University values community assets
Valued contributors to educational experience of future leaders

21. Beneficial to All Partners Faculty, Students, Community
Knowledge is:
co-generated
co-disseminated
co-preserved
co-applied

22. Workshop 1 Examples of outreach – engagement projects
What makes them outreach?
What makes them engagement?
Brainstorm an idea for a community engagement project

23. Workshop II
Presentation – Sustainable Coastal Communities – How to develop Community Engagement – Jules Bruck and Ed Lewendowski
Application – Developing a community engagement project
Share ideas – next steps

24. Scholarship of Engagement
The University has determined that community engagement is an important area of scholarship for all faculty and students
In your group, identify one social/community problem
From your disciplinary perspective, consider a scholarly approach to solving the problem
Use the template to design a teaching, research or service project
Use the rubric to check the level of engagement

25. Sharing Examples
How is community engagement viewed in your department/college?
Do you feel that it is important to change the culture of higher education to recognize the benefits of community engagement?
What aspects of your research/teaching/service connect with problems in society?

26. UD Engage Website
UD Engage website.