This is a brief list of resources for those wishing to learn more about Community Engagement. Many University hosted community (or public, or civic) engagement center websites offer their own lists of resources. Of particular note is the Northern Kentucky University Outreach Office and the bibliography prepared by Lindsay Hunter in 2005.

Astin, Alexander W., Lori J. Vogelgesang, Elaine K. Ikeda, and Jennifer A. Yee. How Service Learning Affects Students. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, 2000.

Berger-Kaye, Cathryn. The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, and Social Action. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing, Inc., 2004.

Bjorhovde, Patricia O. Creating tomorrow's philanthropists: curriculum development for youth. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Bringle, Robert G. et. al.,Colleges and Universities as Citizens. Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

Butin, Dan W. Service-Learning in Higher Education. New York, NY: Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Cha, Stephen, and Michael Rothman. Service Matters: A Sourcebook for Community Service in Higher Education. Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States, 1993.

Chibucos, T. R. and R.M. Lerner, eds. Serving children and families through community-university partnerships: Success stories. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

Colby, A., T. Ehrlich, E. Beaumont, and J. Stephens. Educating citizens: Preparing America’s undergraduates for lives of moral and civic responsibility. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Colleges and communities: Gateway to the American Dream: the State of the Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program. Washington, D.C: Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 2000.

Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement. New York, NY: Princeton Review, 2005.

Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program: colleges and universities in service to their communities. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1999.

Ehrlich, T. Civic responsibility in higher education. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 2000.

Ellis, J., and H. Noyes. By the people: A history of Americans as volunteers. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc, 1990.

Heffner, Gail Gunst, and Claudia DeVries Beversluis. Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.

Building Partnerships for Service-Learning, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Kaufman, Jason. For the Common Good: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity. New York: NY: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Universities. Returning to our roots: The engaged institution. Washington, DC: National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, 1999.

Kendall, Jane, ed. Combining Service and Learning: A Resource Book for Community and Public Service. Raleigh, NC: National Society for Experiential Education, 1990.

Kenny, M., K. Brabeck, L. Simon, and R.M. Lerner, eds.Learning to serve: Promoting civil society through service-learning. Norwell, MI: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Langseth, Mark, William M. Plater, and Scott Dillon. Public work and the academy: an academic administrator’s guide to civic engagement and service-learning. Bolton, MA: Anker Pub., 2004.

Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn: A View from Higher Education, by the Teacher Education Consortium in Service-Learning. Salisbury, MD: Salisbury University, 2003.

Maurrasse, David J. Beyond the Campus: How Colleges and Universities Form Partnerships with their Communities. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

Minority-serving institutions of higher education: developing partnerships to revitalize communities. Washington, DC: Office of University Partnerships, Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 2003.

National Center for Education Statistics. Community service activities following high school. Washington DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1998.

Norris, Pippa. Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

O’Grady, C.R., eds.Integrating service-learning and multicultural education in colleges and universities. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.

Oates, K., and L.H. Leavitt. Service-learning and learning communities: Tools for integrations and assessment. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2003.

Points of distinction: A guidebook for planning & evaluating quality outreach (Revised). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Board of Trustees, 1996.

Prentice, Mary. Institutionalizing Service Learning in Community Colleges. AACC Research Brief. Washington DC: American Association of Community Colleges, 2002.

Simon, L.A., M. Kenny, K. Brabeck, and R.M. Lerner. Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society through Service-Learning. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

Sirianni, C., and L. Friedland. Civic innovation in America: Community empowerment, public policy, and the movement for civic renewal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.

Spikes, W. Franklin. Workplace Learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1995. Stanczykiewicz, Bill. Engaging youth in philanthropy. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Waldorf, Dan et. al., eds. The university and the city: eight cases of involvement. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

Warren, Mark R. Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Zlotkowski, Edward. Service-learning and the first-year experience: Preparing students for personal success and civic engagement. Columbus, SC: University of South Carolina, National Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2002.


Boyer, E. “The scholarship of engagement.” Journal of Public Service & Outreach 1.1: (1996): 11-20. Brodsky, Ruth M. “Service-Learning as it Relates to the Attainment of Employability Skills for adolescents in Maryland.” Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum. 14.3 (2003).

“Civic Engagement and Higher Education.” The Journal of Public Affairs 6.1 (2002).

Holland, B.A. “Factors and strategies that influence faculty involvement in public service.” Journal of Public Service and Outreach 4.1 (1999): 37-43.

“Private and public institutional views of civic engagement and the urban mission.” Metropolitan Universities 13.1 (2002): 11-21.

S. Gelmon. “The state of the ‘engaged campus’: What have we learned about building and sustaining university-community partnership?” AAHE Bulletin 51.2 (1998): 3-6.

Hollander, Elizabeth and Saltmarsh, John. "The Engaged University."Academe 86.4 (2000): 29-31.

Quigley, Charles N. “Promoting Civic Education - A Presentation to the White House Forum on American History, Civics, and Service.” Civic Education Resources. 2003. The Center for Civic Education. 22 November 2005 http://www.civiced.org/cq_wh_2003.pdf

Dilafruz Williams. “The Faculty Role in Civic Engagement” Peer Review. Spring 2003. Association of American Colleges and Universities. 22 November 2005 http://www.aacu- edu.org/peerreview/pr-sp03/pr-sp03feature3.cfm


American Democracy Project (AASCU)
http://www.aascu.org/programs/adp.default.htm

American Political Science Association Civic Education Resources
http://www.apsanet.org/section_245.cfm

CETAC: Character Education & Civic Engagement technical Assistance Center
http://www.cetac.org/

The Center for Civic Education
http://www.civiced.org/

Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)
http://www.civicyouth.org/

Civic Mission of Schools, by CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement) and Carnegie Corporation of New York
http://www.civicmissionofschools.org

Civic Practices Network
http://www.cpn.org

CivicReflection.org
http://www.civicreflection.org/

Community College National Center for Community Engagement
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)
http://www.ccsse.org/

Defining the Engaged Campus
http://www.compact.org/advancedtoolkit/defining.html

National Service Resource Center
http://www.nationalservice.org/resources/epicenter

The Scholarship of Engagement Online
http://www.scholarshipofengagement.org

National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement
http://www.scholarshipofengagement.org

National Survey of Student Engagement
http://www.indiana.edu/

Service-Learning and Civic Engagement National Research Directory (from UC Berkeley)
http://gse.berkeley.edu/research/slrdc/resdirectory/

Sustainable Communities Network: Civic Engagement Resources
http://www.sustainable.org

University of Washington Center for Communication & Civic Engagement
http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/