Engagement Toolkit for Faculty and Staff
The Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development has compiled the following information and resources for faculty and staff regarding community engagement. This webpage includes NIU based resources as well as general resources categorized as Engaged Scholarship, Engagement Awards, Carnegie Classification, Engagement in Promotion and Tenure, and Creating Community Partnerships. Development of this webpage is ongoing, with new resources added regularly, so feel free to visit often.
- Ways to get engaged on campus at NIU
- Benefits of campus engagement at NIU
- Experiential Learning Group Travel Grant
- Engaged Research and Teaching in the Department of History
- Annie Glidden North Revitalization Plan – City of DeKalb and Center for Governmental Studies
- NNGO Community Research Projects
- Engaged Learning in NNGO
- Engagement Scholarship Consortium | Engagement Scholarship Consortium
- Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship | University of Alabama
- Community Partner Review of Community-Engaged Scholarship | Bonner Center for Civic Engagement
- Resources to Support Publicly Engaged Scholar-Practitioners | Indiana University
- Civically Engaged Learning Goals Rubric | Illinois State University
- Civically Engaged Learning Goals | Illinois State University
- Indianapolis Community Requirement (ICR) Course Designation Proposal Form |Butler University
- Guidelines for Community-Engaged Learning (PDF) |University of Rochester
- Information about The Guide: Documenting, Evaluating, and Recognizing Engaged Scholarship |Purdue University
- Embedded Service Learning in European Higher Education: Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement
- Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology
- In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities
- Community-Based Research: Teaching for Community Impact
- The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change
- Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessments: 2A Faculty and Students
- Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessments: Volume 2B Communities, Institutions, and Partnerships
- Learning in the Plural: Essays on the Humanities and Public Life
- The 60 Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy
- The Student Companion to Community Engaged Learning
- Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research: Linking Pedagogy to Practice
- Essentials of Critical Participatory Action Research
- Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: Contemporary Landscapes, Future Directions: Volume 1: Institutional Change
- Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research
- The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World
- Envisioning Public Scholarship for Our Time: Models for Higher Education Researchers
- Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts
- Practising Community-Based Participatory Research: Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization
- Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education
- Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research
- Innovations in Collaborative Modeling: Transformations in Higher Education
- Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement
- The Landscape of Rural Service Learning, and What it Teaches Us All
- Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy
- The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Faculty Development
- Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification
- The Public Professor: How to Use Your Research to Change the World
- Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry
- Anti-Racist Community Engagement
- Information about past classification
- Carnegie Classifications - The Elective Classification for Community Engagement
- The Elective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification: Constructing a Successful Application for First-Time and Re-Classification Applicants
- The Engagement Data Imperative: From Access to Action
- Terms and Definitions for Community Engagement in Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (PDF) | University of North Carolina
- Faculty Affairs OKs Outline Linking Community-Engaged Scholarship to Promotion, Tenure | University of Pittsburgh
- Engagement Toolkits | Michigan State University
- Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
- Checklist for Creating a Partnership (PDF) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- How to Make Community Partnerships Work (PDF) | March of Dimes
- The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach
- Reconceptualizing Faculty Development in Service-Learning/Community Engagement
- Awakening Democracy Through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
- Community Engagement Abroad: Perspectives and Practices on Service, Engagement, and Learning Overseas
- The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement
- The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field
- Grassroots Engagement and Social Justice Through Cooperative Extensions: Transformations in Higher Education
- Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: Contemporary Landscapes, Future Directions: Volume 2:Campus-Community Partnerships
- Land Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good
- Socially Responsible Higher Education: International Perspectives on Knowledge Democracy
- Regional Perspectives on Learning by Doing: Stories from Engages Universities Around the World
- Feminist Community Engagement
- Creating Space for Democracy: A Primer on Dialogue and Deliberation in Higher Education
- Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities
- To Serve a Larger Purpose: Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education
- Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement: Foundational Ideas and Future Directions
- Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices
- Building Collective Leadership for Culture Change
- When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved
- Culturally Competent Engagement: A Mindful Approach
- Academics Going Public: How to Write and Speak Beyond Academe
- Library Collaborations and Community Partnerships: Enhancing Health and Quality of Life
- Pre-College Programming in Higher Education: The Evolution of a Movement: A Practitioner’s Handbook for Current and Future Pre-College Programming Leaders
- Pre-College Programming in Higher Education: A Practitioner’s Audit Workbook