Professional Resources | Community Engagement at UNL

UNL Resources

New to Community Engagement

Community Engagement Considerations

Community Engagement Fundamentals Knowledge Hub from Campus Compact

Engaging with Communities through Nebraska Extension

Tamarack Institute Community Engagement Resources

Professional Learning Events

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop

Engagement Scholarship Consortium Professional Development Opportunities

Extensive Training

Graduate Certification in Community Engagement from Michigan State University

Community Engagement Professional Credential from Campus Compact

Peer Institution Resources

Great Plains IDeA | Clinical and Translational Research at University of Nebraska Medical Center

Office of Community Engagement from University of Nebraska Medical Center

Office of Community Engagement from University of Nebraska Omaha

National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (UK) Resources

Public Engagement Resources from Memorial University

Tools of Engagement from Michigan State University

Outreach and Engagement Office at The Ohio State University

Promoting and Engaging in Public Scholarship from the University of Missouri

Community Engagement Program at Boston University

Center for Rural Engagement from Indiana University

Content-Specific Resources

Community Partnerships Knowledge Hub from Campus Compact

Publishing Engaged Scholarship from Campus Compact

Racial Inequity and Community Engagement Knowledge Hub from Campus Compact

Principles of Community Engagement from the National Institutes of Health

Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good: An Action Framework for Public Research Universities

UNL Funding for Community Engagement

UNL Community Engagement Seed Funding (Internal Competitions)

Articles on Community Engagement Fundamentals curated by the Campus Compact

Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) . High Impact Practices: An Overview.
Association of Public & Land Grant Universities (APLU). Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good: An Action Framework for Public Research Universities.
Beere, C.A., Votruba, J., & Wells, G. (2011). Becoming an engaged campus: A practical guide for institutionalizing public engagement. Indianapolis: Jossey-Bass.
Boyer, Ernest (1997). “The scholarship of engagement.” In Earnest L Boyer, Selected speeches, 1979-1995. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Burke, J.G., Hess, S., Hoffmann, K. et al. (2013). Translating community-based participatory research principles into practice. Prog Community Health Partnersh.
Butin, D. (2003). Of what use is it? Multiple conceptualizations of service learning within education. Teachers College Record, 105(9), 1674-1692
Cantor, N., & Englot, P. (2014). "Civic renewal of higher education through renewed commitment to the Public Good." In Civic engagement, civic development, and higher education. Edited by Jill N. Reich. Washington, DC: Bringing Theory to Practice.
Changfoot, Nadine. (2020). Engaged Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion: Autoethnographic Insights from the Fault Lines of a Shifting Landscape. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 26(1). 26.10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0026.114.
Delgon, C., Mitchell, T.D., & Eaton, T.K. [eds] (2017). The Cambridge handbook of service learning and community engagement. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Dempsey, S. E. (2010). Critiquing community engagement. Management Communication Quarterly, 24(3), 359-390.
Doberneck, D.M., & Carmichael, C. E. (2020). The Unfurling Tool: Unpacking your community-engaged work into multiple scholarly products. Journal of Higher Education and Community Engagement 12(3), 5-19.
Dostilio, L. D. [ed.] (2017). The community engagement professional in higher education: A competency model for an emerging field. Boston: Campus Compact.
Gelmon, S. B., Holland, B. A., Driscoll, A., Spring, A., & Kerrigan, S. (2018). Assessing service-learning and civic engagement: Principles and techniques (2nd Ed.). Providence, RI: Campus Compact
Hoy, A., & Johnson, M. [eds] (2013). Deepening community engagement in higher education: Forging new pathways. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillian.
Jacoby, B. (2009). Civic engagement in higher education, Jossey-Bass.
Kezar, A.J., Chambers, T.C., Burkhardt, J.C., & associates (2005). Higher education for the Public Good.: Emerging voices from a national movement. San Francisco, CA: Josse-Bass.
Kleinhesselink, K., Schooley, S., Cashman, S., Richmond, A., Ikeda, E., & McGinley, P., Editors (2015). Engaged faculty institute curriculum. Seattle, WA: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.
Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (2021). Principles for Anti-Racist Community-Engaged Pedagogy.
Mitchell, T. D. (2008). Traditional vs. critical service-learning: Engaging the literature to differentiate two models. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 14(2).
Mitchell, T. D., Donahue, D. M., & Young-Law, C. (2012). Service learning as a pedagogy of whiteness. Equity & Excellence in Education, 45(4), 612-629.
Murphy, B. (2014). Civic learning in community college. In Civic engagement, civic development, and higher education, edited by Jill N. Reich. Washington, DC: Bringing Theory to Practice.
Post, M.A., Ward, E., Longo, N.V., & Saltmarsh, J. (2016). Publicly engaged scholars: Next generation engagement and the future of higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Prentice, M., Robinson, G., Patton, M. (2012). Cultivating community beyond the classroom. Washington, DC: AACC.
Reich, J.L. (2014). Civic engagement, civic development, and higher education. Washington, DC: Bringing Theory to Practice.
Shea, C.M., Young, T.L., Powell, B.J., et al. (2017). Researcher readiness for participating in community-engaged dissemination and implementation research: a conceptual framework of core competencies. Transl Behav Med.
Welch, M. (2016). Engaging higher education: Purposes, platforms, and programs for community engagement. Boston, MA: Campus Compact.
Welch, M. & Plaxton-Moore, S. (2017). Faculty Development for Advancing Community Engagement in Higher Education: Current Trends and Future Directions. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 21(2), 131-166.
Yamamura, E. and Koth, K. (2018). Place-based community engagement in higher education: A strategy to transform universities and communities. Stylus Publishing.