UNIVERSITY RESOURCES  

Faculty Resources

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Reports/Publications

new for Jan 08 2007 Conference Report: New Times Demand New Scholarship II: Research Universities and Civic Engagement — Opportunities and Challenges www.compact.org/initiatives/
research_universities/

new for Jan 08 Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement Nov. 2007 www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/Publications/
MPSANews1-7/elibrary_pdf_671.pdf

Beyond the ivory tower. (2007) Wingspread Journal, The Johnson Foundation.

Boyte, H. & Hollander, E. (1999). Wingspread declaration on renewing the civic mission of the maerican research university.

Building partnerships for neighborhood change: Promising practices of the university-community partnership initiative. Fannie Mae Foundation (Practice Report). December 2001.

Carriere, Armand and John Saltmarsh. Campus partners for better communities. The Boston Globe. November 18, 2006. Accessed 8/20/07.

Dubb, S. (2007). Linking Colleges to Communities. Engaging the University for Community Development. The Democracy Collaborative at The University of Maryland. http://www.community-wealth.org/
_pdfs/news/recent-articles/07-07/report-linking.pdf

Dugery, J. & Knowles, J. (Eds) (2003). University & community research partnerships: A new approach, Pew Partnership for Civic Change.

Gibson, C. Research universities and engaged scholarship: A leadership agenda for renewing the civic mission of higher education.  Tufts University.  www.compact.org/20th/read/new_times_demand
_new_scholarship.
  Accessed 8/6/07.

Griffith, J.D., Hart, C.L., & Goodlin, M.M. (2006). Teaching grant writing with service learning. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 18(3), 222-229.

Lasting engagement: Building & sustaining a commitment to community outreach, Development, and Collaboration. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships. Volume 1, August 2002.

Levels of commitment to community engagement, characterized by key organizational factors evidencing relevance to institutional mission. Higher Education Network for Community Engagement http://henceonline.org/resources/institutional. Accessed 8/6/2007.

McKay Wilson, D. Good Neighbors? Relationship between Colby and the community marked by tensions, community service, mutual economic interests. Colby Magazine. Spring 2007.
http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/current/
features.php?issueid=38&articleid=635

New times demand new scholarship: Research universities and civic engagement. (2005). Conference Report, Tufts University and Campus Compact.

Pasque, P., Smerek, R., Dwyer, B., Bowman, N., & Mallory, B. (Eds). (2005). Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement & Improvement (Monograph). National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good.

Prins, E. (2006, July 6).  Individual roles and approaches to public engagement in a community-university partnership in a rural California town. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 21(7). 

Public Work and the Academy: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Civic Engagement and Service-Learning. Langseth, S., Plater, W.M. (Eds.) http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
WileyTitle/productCd-1882982738.html

Rearden, K.M. (2005, Summer). Straight A's?: Evaluating the success of community/university partnerships, Communities and Banking, 3-10.

Silka, L., Forrant, R., Bond, B., Coffey, P., Toof, R., Toomey, D., Turcotte, D. & West, C. (2006). Search for Continuity: Achieving Continuity in the Face of Change in Community-University Partnerships. University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

Silka, L. (Ed). (2005). Scholarship in action: Applied research and community change (Monograph). U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.

Silka, L. (Ed). (2004). The power of partnership: Celebrating 10 years (Special Anniversary Report). U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.  --see introduction by Barbara Holland

Thomas, C. (Ed). Service-Learning, CBPR and Action Research Publishing Resources. Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA at University of Massachusetts Lowell.

University Community Partnerships: Current Practices.  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships. Volume 3.

University-Community Partnerships: 2006 Worcester Speaker Series. (Community Affairs Discussion Paper 07-2) prepared by Marga, Inc. April 2007.

Vey, J.S. (December 2005). Higher Education in Pennsylvania: A Competitive Asset for Communities. Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution.

Conferences

HUD Office of University Partnerships (OUP).

Other Faculty Resources

University of New Hampshire
Outreach Scholars Academy
The University of New Hampshire's Outreach Scholars Academy was initiated in 2004 and is designed to enhance faculty success in outreach scholarship within the disciplines.  The academy serves to advance the University's academic strategic plan with a specific focus on outreach scholarship and engagement.

Service-Learning, CBPR and Action Research Publishing Resources .  Developed by: Craig Thomas, Massachusetts Campus Compact AmeriCorps* VISTA at UMass Lowell

Eight Promising Approaches to Citizenship Education in Higher Education.  Offered by the Maine Department of Education’s Citizenship Education Task Force  

Student Resources

Participating COPC Departments

To find out how each department below collaborates with a corresponding project, please refer to Current Projects or contact Dara McIntire, 581-4133, email to: dara.mcintire@umit.maine.edu
Art 
Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
Center for Research and Evaluation
Center for Teaching Excellence
Center on Aging
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Communications & Journalism 
Cooperative Extension
Honors College
Maine Writing Project/National Writing Project
New Media
Psychology
Sea Grant
Sociology
Wabanaki Center

COPC-related student work 

Andrew Clark: As an intern for WBRC Architects & Engineers in the summer of 2007, UMaine Engineering student Andrew Clark gained first-hand experience in urban planning with his walking survey of downtown Bangor. 

Megan Hayward:  Listen to UM student Meghan Hayward's radio broadcast assignment covering the debut of The Common Corner. Completed as part of a Communications & Journalism class for Professor Socolow, the broadcast piece also contains interviews with COPC grant director Kathryn Hunt and University of Maine doctoral student Jessica Brophy.

C. Paige Madeira:  A 2007 photo essay on Bangor's Manna Soup Kitchen produced for New Media Senior Lecturer Bill Kuykendall's Photo Reporting & Storytelling class (NMD 201).

Kevin Mitchell:  A special thanks to New Media student, Kevin Mitchell, who has designed several pieces:

The Common Corner:  A newsletter written entirely by Bangor teens.  The Common Corner is always looking for Bangor-area teens who are interested in learning how to report or who want to contribute poetry or short stories.

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Participating staff and professionals


The University of Maine-Bangor Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC)
Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center
5715 Coburn Hall, The University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5715
    Phone: (207) 581-1648          Fax: (207) 581-1266    rev.7.30.07     
mcsc@umit.maine.edu

A Member of the University of Maine System
http://www.umaine.edu