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2008

• For a second year, the University of Minnesota's Konopka Institute for Best Practices in Adolescent Health has partnered with Kwanzaa Church and the Nia Imani Youth Development Center in north Minneapolis to bring students from the Kwanzaa Freedom School to the University of Minnesota campus. Read More. (added 9.16.08)
• A recently published book, Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship, edited by three Park University faculty brings together a collection of work focusing on combining service-learning and Online learning as a teaching method. Read More. (added 7.30.08)
• The 9th National Outreach Scholarship Conference will take place at Penn State on October 7-9, 2008 to provide an opportunity for critical reflection on the public mission and work of an academic institution—along with the scholarship that underpins this work—and to strengthen institutional support for engagement and public scholarship. (added 7.10.08)
• California State University, Fresno provided 667,836 hours of community service during the 2007-08 academic year. Totals released today by the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning at Fresno State set the economic impact of the University’s service efforts at an estimated $15.9 million. Read More. (added 7.7.08)
• For many schools, an increased commitment to community service fits the student body, curriculum, and neighborhood. At colleges and universities across the country, community-based service programs, curricula, and research have grown to titanic proportions over the past decade. Read More. (added 7.1.08)

• The Indiana State University presidential hopeful, David Belcher, calls for better collaboration between the university and the community as a primary goal for the next leader the University. Read More. (added 6.16.08)
• In an effort to strengthen Penn State's position in the national dialogue on university involvement in regional competitiveness, Penn State Outreach has established the position of visiting senior policy fellow in economic and workforce development in its Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Read more. (added 6.13.08)
• After a year of research, the first results of the Imagining America's Tenure Team Initiative's (TTI) work has been published in a report entitled "Scholarship In Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy In the Engaged University". (added 5.28.07)
• Two major efforts to use data to improve community colleges have now been around long enough that some institutions are able to report on what they did with all of the data they produced. And at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Conference, college leaders presented results. Read more. (added 5.28.07)
• HUD's Office of University Partnerships recently published Empowering Local Communities: Through Leadership Development and Capacity Building, profiling successful community-based organizations at colleges and universities across the country. (added 5.5.08)
• The University at Buffalo East Side Neighborhood Transformation Partnership (ESNTP), a university-assisted approach to the regeneration of Buffalo's Fruit Belt and Martin Luther King, Jr., Park communities, has received the 2008 Outstanding Program Award from the international Community Development Society. (added 4.15.08)
• A new online refereed journal exploring community engagement and community-based learning experiences, The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education has announced its first call for papers. Papers for the first edition are due June 30, 2008. (added 4.15.08)

• The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is creating an Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, a virtual organization that will promote and coordinate its community and economic development activity. Read More. (added 4.2.08)
• Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and Campus Compact, are launching Students4GivingSM to inspire young people to get more involved with philanthropy. Five academic institutions, including California State University, Fresno, and their students will receive a $15,000 donor-advised fund to be used for future grant recommendations within their communities. Read More.

2007

• Faculty for the Engaged Campus, a national initiative of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, which aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy, will issue a “call for applications” in January 2008 to select teams from colleges and universities to participate in a faculty development charrette. Read More.
• The University of Louisiana system students are continuing their institutionally supported service-learning efforts by helping displaced musicians in New Orleans through a day of house-building, labeled "Home Is Where the Music Lives." Read More.
• A new report by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) and The Charles F. Kettering Foundation finds that today's students are more engaged in their communities and feel responsible to become civically involved.

• Nominations are due February 12, 2008 for the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award! The CCPH Annual Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that build on each other's strengths. (Added 10.25.07)
• Purdue researchers have begun a new program called Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement, or PLACE, to talk to community leaders on research and projects they have been doing related to immigration and diverse communities. (Added 10.16.07)
• Sixteen South Carolina higher education institutions have joined together to form South Carolina Campus Compact, part of a national coalition that is committed to educating the next generation of responsible citizens through civic engagement, service-learning, and community service. Read More. (Added 10.16.07)
• The University of Massachusetts and the town of Amherst signed a five-year strategic partnership in August to strengthen ties between the communities. Read More. (Added 10.05.07)
• The State University of New York at New Paltz has created a new Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO) on the New Paltz campus, which will serve as the principal locus of the college’s efforts to raise its level of engagement within communities, government and businesses across the Hudson Valley. Read More. (Added 10.05.07)
• University of Kentucky has recently established the Center for the Study of Violence Against Children in the College of Social Work as "a model for effective university-community engagement and a catalyst for establishing the University of Kentucky as a leader in the areas of research and practice as it relates to violence against children." Read More. (Added 10.05.07)
• Penn State has published the "Future of the American Public Research University," this month which originated from and has been edited by leaders from The Pennsylvania State University. In 12 chapters, leaders from several universities and higher-ed organizing bodies offered perspectives on a range of topics, particularly Chapter 2, "Expert and Elite: The Incongruous Mission of Public Research Universities" by R. Geiger, and Chapter 8, "Service and Outreach: The Public’s Opportunities and Obligations" by J. Ramaley. (Added 8.29.07)
• The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy recently released a working paper analyzing how employer-assisted housing can catalyze relationships between universities and their surrounding communities. (Added 8.01.07)
• An editorial [PDF] in the Journal of Adolescent Health written by Dr. Michael Resnick, leader of the Engaged Institutions project at the University of Minnesota, describes the value and role of community partnerships in promoting the health of youth. (Added 7.25.07)
• A new report from The Democracy Collaborative, Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development, explores how universities can leverage their resources for community benefit. (Added 7.25.07)
• This summer the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities will host the Kwanzaa Freedom School on its campus and support a six-week literacy and skill-building program for nearly two dozen North Minneapolis high school students. Read More. (Added 7.25.07)