Building a Two-Way Street: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Engagement at Research Universities
- 1 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in The Review of Higher Education
- Vol. 32 (1), 73-106
- https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.0.0027
Abstract
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.Keywords
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