Community Partnerships

As higher education faces a declining value proposition and stalled progress in university–community engagement, this book offers a bold alternative to the customer-focused strategies many colleges seek to regain stability.

Edited by Karla Bird, Suchitra V. Gururaj, Sara B. Moore, Andrea Robles, and Cindy Vincent Claar, this volume offers replicable approaches for centering equity as a core value in community–campus relationships.

A practical approach for designing, managing and evaluating research co-production

Critical Reflections and Visions of Equity at the Research-Practice Interface

This paper is a resource for individuals and communities seeking to embrace and
accelerate intergenerational collaboration. We build the case for higher education institutions to
undertake “cogeneration” initiatives and to adapt to changing ideas about work and the shifting
educational landscape.

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. Includes specific strategies and processes drawn from case studies of strong partnerships.

A practical companion guide to the 2022 AAC&U publication "Recommitting to Stewardship of Place: Creating and Sustaining Thriving Communities for the Decades Ahead."

A curated list of contemporary readings in community-based research that may be useful for scholar-practitioners teaching CBR courses or defining/refining their own engaged praxis.