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The Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy promotes engaged scholarship through mutually beneficial, meaningful, reciprocal partnerships with local government, nonprofit, and private sector leaders that stimulate investment, create employment opportunities and enhance economic development.
Ackerman, J., & Coogan, D. (2010). The public work of rhetoric: Citizen-scholars and civic engagement. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Benneworth, P. (Ed.). (2012). University engagement with socially excluded communities. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Burbank, M.D., & Hunter, R. (2008). Community advocate model: Linking communities, school districts, and universities to support families and exchange knowledge. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 1(1), 47–55.
Byers, L. G., & Gray, K. (2012). The meaning of service learning in an MSW course. Journal Of Teaching In Social Work, 32(3), 257-267.
Campbell, A. (2012). Enhancing student engagement through practice experience in social work education: The social work studio. Higher Education Research & Development, 31(6), 773-784.
Cooper, T. L. (2005), Civic engagement in the twenty-first century: Toward a scholarly and practical agenda. Public Administration Review, 65, 534–535.
Evans, S. Y. (2009). African Americans and community engagement in higher education: Community service, service-learning, and community-based research. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Fitzgerald, H. E., Burack, C., & Seifer, S. D. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of engaged scholarship: Contemporary landscapes, future directions, Volume 1: Institutional Change. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
Fitzgerald, H. E., Burack, C., & Seifer, S. D. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of engaged scholarship: Contemporary landscapes, future directions, Volume 2: Community-campus partnerships. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
Gamble, D. N., & Weil, M. (2009). Community Practice Skills: Local to Global Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.
Hodges, R. A., & Dubb, S. (2012). The road half traveled: University engagement at a crossroads. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
Hoffman, A., Wallach, J., & Sanchez, E. (2010). Community service work, civic engagement, and ‘giving back’ to society: Key factors in improving interethnic relationships and achieving ‘connectedness’ in ethnically diverse communities. Australian Social Work, 63(4), 418-430.
Holman, P. (2010 ). Engaging emergence: Turning upheaval into opportunity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Hoyt, L. (2013). Transforming cities and minds through the scholarship of engagement: Economy, equity, and environment. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Lowe, L.A., & Clark, J. (2009). Learning about social work research through service-learning. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2(1), 50–60.
Metzger, J. (2012). Teaching civic engagement. Gateways: International Journal Of Community Research & Engagement, 5(1), 98-114.
Nabatchi, T., Gastil, J., Weiksner, G. M., & Leighninger, M. (Eds.). (2012). Democracy in motion: Evaluating the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement. New York: Oxford University Press.
Perry, A.R. (2011). Man up: Integrating fatherhood and community engagement. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 4(1), 15–24.
Plummer, C., Buchanan, T.K., Kennedy, C.B., Rouse, L., & Pine, J. (2011). Broadening perspectives: A multidisciplinary collaborative teaching and learning experience. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 4(1), 60–69.
Preece, J., Osborne, M., Modise, O. M., & Ntseane, P. G. (Eds.). (2012). Community engagement in African universities: Perspectives, prospects and challenges. Leicester, UK: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education.
Schnirer, L., & Stack-Cutler, H. (2012). Recruitment and engagement of low-income populations service provider and researcher perspectives [electronic book].Edmonton, AB: Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families.
Yarnal, B., Polsky, C., & O’Brien, J. (2009). Sustainable communities on a sustainable planet: The human-environment regional observatory project. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Zuber-Skerritt, O. (2012). Action research for sustainable development in a turbulent world. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
The Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy promotes engaged scholarship through partnership with communities and schools to provide needed resources and evidence-based educational strategies to assist our community’s needs.
Aftandilian, D., & Dart, L. (2013). Using garden-based service-learning to work toward food justice, better educate students, and strengthen campus-community ties. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 6(1), 55–69.
Arnold, M.E., Dolenc, B., & Wells, E.E. (2008). Youth community engagement: A recipe for success. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 1(1), 56–65.
Beere, C. A., Votruba, J. C., & Wells, G. W. (2011). Becoming an engaged campus: A practical guide for institutionalizing public engagement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Behringer, B., Bach, B., Daudistel, H., Fraser, J., Kriesky, J., & Lang, G. (2004). Pursuing opportunities through partnerships: Higher education and communities. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press.
Boyer, E. L. (1997). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Burke, A. S., & Bush, M. D. (2013). Service learning and criminal justice: an exploratory study of student perceptions. Educational Review, 65(1), 56-69.
Butin, D. W., & Seider, S. (Eds.). (2012). The engaged campus: Certificates, minors, and majors as the new community engagement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Carson, R.L., & Domangue, E.A. (2010). Youth-centered service-learning: Exploring the professional implications for college students. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 3(2), 67–75.
Foster, K.M. (2010). Taking a stand: Community-engaged scholarship on the tenure track. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 3(2), 20–30.
Franz, N., Childers, J., & Sanderlin, N. (2012). Assessing the culture of engagement on a university campus. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 5(2), 29–40.
Glassick, Charles E.; Huber, Mary Taylor; Maeroff, Gene I. Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Gutierrez, R. S., Reeves-Gutierrez, D., & Helms, R. (2012). Service learning and criminal justice students: An assessment of the effects of co-curricular pedagogy on graduation rates. Journal Of Criminal Justice Education, 23(3), 356-380.
Hora, M. T., & Millar, S. B. (2011). A guide to building education partnerships: Navigating diverse cultural contexts to turn challenge into promise (1st ed.). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Jay, G. (2010). The engaged humanities: Principles and practices for public scholarship and teaching. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 3(1), 51–65.
Leisey, M., Holton, V., & Davey, T.L. (2012). Community engagement grants: Assessing the impact of university funding and engagements. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 5(2), 41–47.
Lesnick, A. (2010). Teaching and learning in community: Staff-student partnerships and part of a college education. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 3(1), 14–26.
McIlrath, L., Lyons, A., & Munck, R. (Eds.). (2012). Higher education and civic engagement: Comparative perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
O’Meara, K., Sandmann, L., Saltmarsh, J., & Giles, D. (2011). Studying the professional lives and work of faculty involved in community engagement. Innovative Higher Education, 36(2), 83-96.
Patton, J., & Cope, V. (2013). Learning professional journalism with help from university faculty and students. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 6(1), 37–38.
Peters, S. J., Alter, T. R., & Schwartzbach, N. (2010). Democracy and higher education: Traditions and stories of civic engagement. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
Pike, G., Kuh, G., & McCormick, A. (2011). An investigation of the contingent relationships between learning community participation and student engagement. Research In Higher Education, 52(3), 300-322.
Sandmann, L. R., Thornton, C. H., and Jaeger, A. J. (2009). Institutionalizing Community Engagement in Higher Education: The First Wave of Carnegie Classified Institutions. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Seider, S., Rabinowicz, S., & Gillmor, S. (2012). Differential outcomes for American college students engaged in community service-learning involving youth and adults. Journal Of Experiential Education, 35(3), 447-463.
Stewart, T., & Alrutz, M. (2012). Meaningful relationships: Cruxes of university-community partnerships for sustainable and happy engagement. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 5(1), 44–56.
Strand, K., Marullo, S., Cutforth, N., Stoecker, R., & Donohue, P. (2003). Community-based research and higher education: Principles and practices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Vargas, C., Arauza, C., Folsom, K., Luna, M., Gutiérrez, L., Frerking, P., & Cooper, P. (2012). A community engagement process for families with children with disabilities: Lessons in leadership and policy. Maternal & Child Health Journal, 16(1), 21-30.
Watson, D., Hollister, R., Stroud, S. E., & Babcock, E. (2011). The engaged university: International perspectives on civic engagement. New York: Routledge.
Whitaker, M. S., & Albertson, D. (2011). Triangulating findings from an instruction-cased community engagement project. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 51(1), 49-59.
The Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy promotes engaged scholarship that corrects disparities in access to health care through partnerships with the community, sharing resources and fostering implementation of evidence-based intervention strategies.
Allen, M. L., Culhane-Pera, K. A., Pergament, S., & Call, K. (2011). A Capacity Building Program to Promote CBPR Partnerships between Academic Researchers and Community Members. CTS: Clinical & Translational Science, 4(6), 428-433.
Andrews, J., Tingen, M., Jarriel, S., Caleb, M., Simmons, A., Brunson, J., Mueller, M., Ahluwalia, J.S., Newman, S.D., Cox, M.J., Magwood, G., & Hurman, C. (2012). Application of a CBPR framework to inform a multi-level tobacco cessation intervention in public housing neighborhoods. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 50(1/2), 129-140.
Brenner, B. L., & Manice, M. P. (2011). Community Engagement in Children’s Environmental Health Research. Mount Sinai Journal Of Medicine, 78(1), 85-97.
Long, J. A., Lee, R. S., Federico, S., Battaglia, C., Wong, S., & Earnest, M. (2011). Developing leadership and advocacy skills in medical students through service learning. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, 17(4), 369-372.
Post, D.M., Kundt, F.S, Mehl, E., Hudson, W.A., Stone, L.C., & Banks, F.R. (2009). Twenty years of experience in service-learning at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2(1), 18–30.
Sleap, N., Heflin, A., Archuleta, A.J., & Crook, W.P. (2010). Organizing community change: STD/HIV awareness in a Greek student body. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 3(2), 54–66.
Peery, A.I., & Kolasa, K.M. (2011). Mini-med school: Developing partnerships with the community and between health professions and students. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 4(2), 61–66.
The Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy promotes engaged scholarship through constructive collaborations between ECU and partners that benefit the community via the unique capacities of the arts, humanities, culture and design.
Doberneck, D.M., Glass, C.R., & Schweitzer, J.H. (2011). Beyond activity, place, and partner: How publicly engaged scholarship varies by intensity of activity and degree of engagement. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 4(2), 18–28.
Douglas, S. (2012). Advancing the scholarship of engagement: an institutional perspective. South African Review Of Sociology, 43(2), 27-39.
Janosky, J.E., Sun, Q., Laird, S.B., & Kostura, A. (2008). The challenge of censored participants in community-based research. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 1(1), 73–79.
Olowu, D. (2012). University–community engagement in South Africa: Dilemmas in benchmarking. South African Review Of Sociology, 43(2), 89-103.
Pienaar-Steyn, S. (2012). The millennium development goals as a conceptual framework for enabling and evaluating community engagement. South African Review Of Sociology, 43(2), 40-57.
Prohaska, A. (2013). “Beyond my imagination”: Learning the sociology of poverty through service after the Tuscaloosa tornado. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 6(1), 19–27.
Sparks, P., & Farsides, T. The pub, the people, the place, the passions, and the principles: The social and personal context of engagement in a collective action. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2(1), 40–49.
Verjee, B. (2012). Critical race feminism: A transformative vision for service-learning engagement. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 5(1), 57–69.
The Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy promotes engaged scholarship that involves mathematical and scientific ventures by collaborating with community partners to acknowledge their unique perspectives and revolutionize the breadth, scope and creativity of their work.
Baillie, C., Pawley, A., & Riley, D. (Eds.). (2012). Engineering and social justice: In the university and beyond. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Budny, D., & Gradoville, R. (2011). International service learning design projects: Educating tomorrow’s engineers, serving the global community, and helping to meet ABET criterion. International Journal For Service Learning In Engineering, 6(2), 98-117.
Cone, J., Rowe, S., Borborg, J., & Goodwin, B. (2012). Community planning for climate change: Visible thinking tools facilitate shared understanding. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 5(2), 7–19.
Dukhan, N. N., Schumack, M. R., & Daniels, J. J. (2008). Implementation of service-learning in engineering and its impact on students’ attitudes and identity. European Journal Of Engineering Education, 33(1), 21-31.
Kountoupes, D. L., & Oberhauser, K.S. (2008). Citizen science and youth audiences: Educational outcomes of the monarch larva monitoring project. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 1(1), 10–20.
Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (2007). The Sage handbook of action research: Participative inquiry and practice (2nd ed.). Los Angeles; London: Sage.
Sevier, C., Chyung, S., Callahan, J., & Schrader, C. B. (2012). What value does service learning have on introductory engineering students’ motivation and ABET program outcomes? Journal Of STEM Education: Innovations & Research, 13(4), 55-70.
Simon, M. R., Bixler, G. D., Doudican, B., & Dzwonczyk, R. (2012). Engineering service-learning: Importance of appropriate collaboration with international partners. International Journal For Service Learning In Engineering, 7(1), 28-39.
Watters, A.J., Hanninen, P., & Hardin, J.M. (2011). Developing a community-based research network for interdisciplinary science: The Alabama entrepreneurial research network. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 4(2), 67–78.