Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement

Foundational Ideas and Future Directions

Lorilee R. Sandmann, Diann O. Jones, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Diann O. Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781620368541
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000979985
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

Community engagement has evolved as a respected field and now occupies a seat at the academic table. In the past, this work had often been relegated to the institutional fringes of higher education, its practitioners marginalized, and the work often portrayed as service, not scholarly. Today, higher education community engagement is a dynamic and continually evolving field of scholarship and practice that carries ever-increasing academic respect. This book contributes to the ever-under-construction edifice by presenting a scaffolding of the scholarship that has been part of the building process, documenting and analyzing the past, speculating about the future, and framing a continuing conversation about and for the field.The three parts of this book are designed to promote a continuing field-building conversation: a look back at foundational documents of the field; a set of provocative questions interrogating those foundational works; and a look to the future by the next generation of leaders in the field. The central part is the special 20th anniversary issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, which brings together key documents of the scholarship of engagement with reflections on those documents by key scholars and/or the authors of the original works. In addition to highlighting the foundations and evolution of the field, this work also looks ahead to the next generation of voices and views as input to the conversation, with a closing chapter that includes invited essays by nine outstanding community-engaged thinkers and writers of the next 20 years who share their ideas about probable futures.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Tables and Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement A 20-Year Retrospective
• 2 The Scholarship of Engagement
• Ernest L. Boyer’s “Scholarship of Engagement” in Retrospect
• 3 Ensuring the Quality of Outreach The Critical Role of Evaluating Individual and Collective Initiatives and Performance
• Ernest A. Lynton and the Tyranny of Research
• 4 Outreach, Engagement, and the Changing Culture of the University
• Commentary Outreach, Engagement, and the Changing Culture of the University–1998
• 5 Factors and Strategies that Influence Faculty Involvement in Public Service
• Factors Influencing Faculty Engagement Then, Now, and Future
• 6 From Maverick to Mainstream The Scholarship of Engagement
• Moving from Mavericks at the Margins Encouraging Progress but “Miles to Go”
• 7 The “New” Scholarship Implications for Engagement and Extension
• It’s Time for a Second-Wave Movement
• 8 Preparing Future Faculty for Community Engagement Barriers, Facilitators, Models, and Recommendations
• The State of Community Engagement in Graduate Education Reflecting on 12 Years of Progress
• 9 An Integrated Model for Advancing the Scholarship of Engagement Creating Academic Homes for the Engaged Scholar
• An Integrated Model Recontextualized
• 10 Understanding an Emerging Field of Scholarship Toward a Research Agenda for Engaged, Public Scholarship
• The Emergence of Engaged Scholarship Seven Additional Years of Evolution
• 11 A Holistic Model of Engaged Scholarship Telling the Story Across Higher Education’s Missions
• The Legacy and Future of a Model for Engaged Scholarship Supporting a Broader Range of Scholarship
• 12 The Centrality of Engagement in Higher Education
• The Centrality of Engagement in Higher Education Reflections and Future Directions
• 13 Perspectives on Future Directions
• Supporting Community Building and Well-Being Through Culturally Responsive Social Action
• Confronting the Paradoxes of Higher Education
• Tear Down These Walls 235 Break the Barriers in Community Engagement
• Future Trends in Engagement Practice and those who Advance Practice
• Next-Generation Scholars and Scholarly Communications
• Courageous Pragmatism The Next 20 Years for Community-Engaged Scholarship
• Opening the Doors of the Academy Rethinking the Focus and Framing of Engagement
• Future Directions for Community Engagement in Higher Education Advancing Scholarship, Building Leadership Capacity, and Reaffirming Commitments
• It is Time for Higher Ed to Get Political
• 14 Higher Education Community Engagement Past, Present, and Future
• Editors, Authors, and Contributors
• Index