Scholarship Resources

There are a variety of resources available to faculty and staff related to community engagement and outreach scholarship and teaching.

Funding Opportunities for Community Engaged Scholarship

• Community Grant - The purpose of the Community Grant is to provide support for community service projects or activities initiated and/or developed by Towson University students, alumni, administrators, staff and/or faculty members
• Alive Line Grant opportunities - This electronic newsletter is published weekly by the Office of University Research Services; to sign-up contact Mary Louise Healy
• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Funding Opportunities

Journals/Publications

• Metropolitan Universities Journal
• Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
• Journal for Civic Commitment
• The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
• Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship

In addition to journals specifically geared towards community engagement most disciplines support engaged scholarship and many have specific discipline journals to publish this work.

Conferences

• Outreach Scholarship Conference
  “Pathways of Engagement: Connecting Civic Purpose to Learning and Research-Locally and Globally” | September 28-30, 2009; Hosted by The University of Georgia
• Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference
  “Building Community Resiliency: The Role of University Leadership” | October 11-13 2009: Hosted by Widener University

Informational Resources

• The Clearinghouse for the Scholarship of Engagement - The Scholarship of Engagement provides external peer review and evaluation of faculty's scholarship of engagement. Additionally, the clearing house provides consulting and technical assistance for faculty interested in pursuing a community engaged scholarship agenda and sponsor a faculty mentoring program with opportunities for less experienced faculty to learn from the outreach experiences of more seasoned outreach scholars.
• Campus Compact - A non-profit organization that supports and implements programs aimed to educate college students to become active citizens who are well-equipped to develop creative solutions to society's most pressing issues.
• International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement - An international, non-profit organization devoted to promoting research and discussion about service-learning and community engagement. IARSLCE was launched in 2005, and incorporated in 2007. Their mission is to promote the development and dissemination of research on service-learning and community engagement internationally and across all levels of the education system.
• National Service Learning Clearing House - Supports the service-learning community in higher education, kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based initiatives and tribal programs, as well as all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies.
• UC Berkeley Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Research Directory - An aggregation of the search pages of primary online resources on service-learning and civic engagement research in K-12 education, teacher education, and higher education. The search databases of these online resources are posted on a single page, providing a one-stop source for accessing available research information from existing databases.
• American Democracy Project - The American Democracy Project (ADP) is a multi-campus initiative focused on higher education’s role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens for our democracy.”

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