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Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Subjects

Academic achievement, Social integration

Abstract

This article invites readers to consider foundational assumptions about community-engaged work. The author envisions a path forward to help “un-stall” the community engagement movement and to deepen and broaden practice. Connecting cutting edge thinking emerging out of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors – all suggesting the need to collectivize our work – the author argues in favor of refocusing community engagement efforts on the backbone of higher education: academic disciplines and departments. The article concludes with a composite vision, compiled from data and experiences collected at multiple postsecondary institutions in the United State and beyond, for a partnership landscape that positions the academic unit closer to the center of the community engagement enterprise.

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This article is published under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

DOI

10.7253%2Fpartj.v6i3.1232

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16667

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