What does Community Engagement mean for Faculty Work? Students may practice community engagement either inside or outside of the classroom, with and without faculty and staff, individually, in groups (e.g., clubs, Greek organizations), through programs (e.g., academic and co-curricular, living-learning communities), research, creative activities, and courses – when enacted collaboratively with community partners through processes that exemplify reciprocal partnerships and public purposes. What does Community Engagement mean for Students? Clarity between the various types simply allows for greater recognition of the duration of the commitment, the resources needed, the processes followed, and outcomes expected of each form of service. It is important to recognize that the University values many forms of service – and not all faculty are required to integrate community engagement into their faculty work.
What’s the Difference between Community Engagement and Community Service?Ĭommunity engagement and community service (often referred to as “outreach”) are often confused and/or conflated because both approaches may occur in the community and/or include activities that involve or serve community entities. Reciprocity is the recognition, respect, and valuing of the knowledge, perspective, and resources that each partner contributes to the collaboration. Through community engagement, community and university knowledge and resources are brought together in and out of the classroom, as well as on and off campus to “enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity enhance curriculum, teaching and learning prepare educated, engaged citizens strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility address critical societal issues and contribute to the public good.” The “community” in community engagement is not defined by sector, such as private or public, for-profit or nonprofit rather, community is broadly defined to include individuals, groups, and organizations external to campus that use collaborative processes for the purpose of contributing to the public good. Our community extends beyond the local, to include regional, state, national, and global partners and may come from a variety of sectors, including but not limited to nonprofits, businesses, civic agencies, and schools.Ĭommunity engagement (also referred to as civic engagement) is the “collaboration (among) institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”
Defintion of engagex pdf#
Want to share these with others? Download a pdf of the definitions.Īlthough UNCG is certainly a member of the community, we use community to mean individuals, groups, and organizations external to campus. Read this introductory letter to these definitions from the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development and the Special Assistant for Community Engagement at UNCG. Additional tools and resources may be found on the Scholarly Resources page. The following definitions were developed to inform faculty discourse and are contextualized and, therefore, shaped by the P&T guidelines developed and adopted by UNCG faculty. UNCG has thought critically about community engagement in a variety of contexts, including community-engaged scholarship, community-engaged research, community-engaged teaching, and community-engaged service. “Community” and “engagement” are two frequently used words that can mean different things to different people.
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