TY - JOUR
T1 - Building a two-way street
T2 - Challenges and opportunities for community engagement at research universities
AU - Weerts, David J.
AU - Sandmann, Lorilee R.
PY - 2008/9/1
Y1 - 2008/9/1
N2 - Recent reforms in the Carnegie Foundation classification system and regional accreditation standards have fueled momentum for community engagement in higher education. This study employs a knowledge-flow conceptual framework to identify barriers and facilitators that influence the adoption of an engagement agenda at land-grant and urban research universities. With data drawn from six cases, broad themes related to institutional setting, history, epistemologies, leadership, structures, and boundary-spanning roles of faculty and staff emerged as key levers or inhibitors of community engagement at research universities. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
AB - Recent reforms in the Carnegie Foundation classification system and regional accreditation standards have fueled momentum for community engagement in higher education. This study employs a knowledge-flow conceptual framework to identify barriers and facilitators that influence the adoption of an engagement agenda at land-grant and urban research universities. With data drawn from six cases, broad themes related to institutional setting, history, epistemologies, leadership, structures, and boundary-spanning roles of faculty and staff emerged as key levers or inhibitors of community engagement at research universities. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:53349102309
SN - 0162-5748
VL - 32
SP - 73
EP - 106
JO - Review of Higher Education
JF - Review of Higher Education
IS - 1
ER -