Resources :: Campus-Community Partnerships

Our resources for community partners and those who work with them include publications, program models, and a host of other print and online information sources.

Benchmarks for Campus-Community Partnerships

This seminal work outlines the key features of successful campus/community partnerships, with guidelines for designing, building, and sustaining collaborative partnerships that benefit all parties.

Campus Compact Publications: Campus Engagement

Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships

This study grew out of a conversation among service-learning practitioners at a retreat hosted by California Campus Compact. "What do our community partners think about service-learning? We think they are benefiting, but how do we know?" This is the largest study of community partner perspectives that we are aware of in the literature.

Higher Education Engagement in Knight Communities

Recent research into campus-community partnerships in 23 communities across the United States, with ways to strengthen partnerships that advance community priorities while deepening the civic knowledge, skills, and values of students.

Partnership Models

More than 100 partnership models drawn from our program model database.

The Promise of Partnerships

Designed specifically for community-based organizations, The Promise of Partnerships offers straightforward guidance on how to tap into the resources and expertise of local colleges and universities.

Colleges and Universities as Economic Anchors: Profiles of Promising Practices

Paper by Andrew Hahn with Casey Coonerty and Lili Peaslee.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

A nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

Connecting Communities with Colleges and Universities

Strategies to Strengthen Local Promise Efforts Through Higher Education Involvement. A paper from America's Promise — The Alliance for Youth.

Creating, Running and Sustaining Campus-Community Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners

This handbook shares the voices and wisdom of individuals from colleges and universities and from community organizations in northern New England who have been involved in service-learning partnerships for several years or more. These partnership practitioners describe how they build, operate and sustain effective campus-community partnerships. From the Campus Compacts of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.

Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) Forum e-Newsletter Issue 5

Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) Forum e-Newsletter Issue 5 focuses on the University-Community Partnership.

Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development

The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland has published a new book, Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development.

Monograph on Building Partnerships with College Campuses: Community Perspectives

The Engaging Communities and Campuses program assisted independent colleges and universities to establish partnerships with community organizations to enhance experiential learning activities while addressing community needs. by Sally Leiderman, Andrew Furco, Jennifer Zapf and Megan Goss.

Office of UW-Community Partnerships

Universities and communities are rich sources of knowledge — and even richer when they share what they know.

University-Community Research Partnerships: A New Approach

This report highlights the results of a national initiative to build partnerships between community-based organizations and university faculty in nineteen sites sponsored by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.

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