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Break Away Training
https://www.break-away.org/ Break Away Chapter schools are a committed and collaborative network of community engagement programs across the country. While Break Away doesn’t plan engagement experiences or make programmatic decisions for our Chapters, we support members’ planning through our Site Bank, a searchable database of over 100 community organizations; Housing Bank, similar to the Site Bank but with potential housing partners; and online planning materials. We gather and consistently share promising practices with program leaders at member institutions through webinars and discussion guides, our semesterly newsletter, and our annual National Alternative Break Survey.
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field’s most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best teaching practices and pedagogies, engagement across disciplines, and current research and policies – and contemplates the future of the field. The book will not only inform faculty, staff, and students on ways to improve their work, but also suggest a bigger social and political focus…
The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field
This book, offered by “practitioner-scholars,” is an exploration and identification of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are central to supporting effective community engagement practices between higher education and communities. The discussion and review of these core competencies are framed within a broader context of the changing landscape of institutional community engagement and the emergence of the Community Engagement Professional as a facilitator of engaged teaching, research, and institutional partnerships distinct from other academic professionals. This research, conducted as part of Campus Compact’s Project on the Community Engagement Professional, seeks to identify the shared knowledge and practices of Community Engagement…