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 Service-Learning Courses
- TU Civic Engagement Service-Learning Faculty Grant - As part of the Towson University 2010 Strategic Plan, which calls for an increase in service-learning experiences for students, the Department of Civic Engagement is funding this service-learning grant opportunity. Faculty are eligible to apply for grant money to support service-learning course activities. Funds should be used to allow a professor to “take a course to the next level” in regard to service-learning and permit the class to engage in relevant activities it would otherwise be unable to complete. Funds allow the faculty member to enhance the integration of the service project and service-learning with the course.
Funding Opportunities for Community Engaged Scholarship
Journals/Publications
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
- National Outreach Scholarship Conference -
October 2-4, 2011, Hosted by Michigan State University
- University Economic Development Association Annual Summit
- “Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Talent- Creating and sustaining a culture of entrepreneurship at your university," October 9-11, 2011, Hosted By UEDA, Indianapolis, IN
- 11th International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
November 2 – 4, 2011, Hosted By Illinois Campus Compact, Chicago, IL
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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