Community-Engaged Scholarship Resources

Last Updated: May 6, 2025

Sociology Work

American Sociological Association (2024): Guidelines for Evaluating Community-Engaged Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion Files

American Sociological Association (2016). “What Counts”: Evaluating public communication in tenure and promotion

Community Action Research Initiative (CARI) Grants

Community Engaged Research for Impact, SAN/SPSS Webinar

Sociology Action Network (SAN) Advisory Panel

Sociology and the Potential of Community-Engaged Scholarship. Footnotes, Winter 2022

Task Force on Institutionalizing Public Sociologies

URBAN Research-Based Action Network (2015): Guidelines for Peer Reviewing Community Based Research

Other Disciplinary Society Guidelines

American Anthropology Association (2011) Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion Review: Communicating Public Scholarship in Anthropology

American Anthropological Association. Guidelines for Evaluating Scholarship in the Realm of Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology for Academic Promotion and Tenure (2017)

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Many approaches to public engagement (nd)

American Historical Association. Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian ( 2017)

American Historical Association. Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship (2023)

American Philosophy Association (2017). Statement on Valuing Public Philosophy

American Political Science Association Civic Engagement Section. Professional Advice (2022)

American Political Science Association Strategies for Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion as Civically-Engaged Academics

Modern Language Association Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship (2022)

Other National Organizations

Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Resources

Johnson, M. and Saltmarsh, J. (2020). Campus Classification, Identity, and Change: The Elective Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 24(3), p. 105

William T Grant Institutional Challenge Grants

Campus Compact, Tenure and Promotion for Engaged Scholarship – A Repository (Aug 2022)

LEAD California

The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCERN)

Scan of Promising Efforts to Broaden Faculty Reward Systems to Support Societally- Impactful Research Prepared for the Transforming Evidence Funders Network October 2023

University of California Campus Documents and Resources

UC Berkeley Tips for Strengthening and Contextualizing Cases Involving Community-Based Research and Other Public Interest-Focused Research. (2021)

UCSC Campus Expectations for Assessing Community-Engaged Scholarship in Academic Personnel Reviews (August 2023)

UCSC Sociology Department Guidelines for Engaged Scholarship (April 2023)

UCSC Committee on Academic Personnel Annual Report 2021-22

Overview of Community-Engaged Scholarship at Berkeley

UCLA Center for Community Engagement Report on Recognizing Community-Engaged Scholarship in Academic Personnel Review (2021)

UC Davis Office of Public Engagement and Scholarship

Other Case Studies

Imagining America Guidance. Scholarship in public: knowledge creation and tenure policy in the engaged university. Syracuse, NY Imagining America (2007)

Rutgers University Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly-Engaged Scholarship (2019)

University of Minnesota Publicly Engaged Scholarship Criteria (2007)

University of Minnesota Review Committee on Community-Engaged Scholarship

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2016 Provost’s task force on engaged scholarship in promotion and tenure (2016)

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Community Engagement: Terms and Definitions for Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (2011)

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Defining & Describing Community-Engaged Scholarship – Consideration for P&T (2013)

Community-Engaged Scholarship: A Faculty Handbook. University of Louisville (nd.)

University of Maryland Department of Sociology Criteria for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenures (Feb 2024)

CSUF: Suggested Language for Department Personnel Standards to Support Service Learning, Community-Engaged Learning, Community-Engaged Teaching, and Community-Engaged Scholarly and Creative Activities (Dec 2022)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, How to earn tenure while doing community-engaged scholarship (2017)

Principles and Guidelines for Community-University Research Partnerships (Yale Center for Clinical Investigation)

Other Articles

Boyer, Ernest L. The Scholarship of Engagement. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 49, No. 7. April 1996

Changfoot, Nadine, et al. Engaged Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol. 26, Issue 1. Winter 2020

Cohan, Deborah J. Why Grad Schools Should Make the Case for Public Scholarship. Inside Higher Ed. October 04, 2024

Corbin, Gene Alonzo, Prabhdeep Kehal, and John Saltmarsh. Why Community Engaged Scholarship Is Important to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Higher Education. Scholars Strategy Network. November 13, 2021

Gale, S., Herrera, P., Linask, M., Maurantonio, N. Miller, D. and Pelco, L. E. (2023). Suggestions for early career community-engaged scholars: developing your identity statement, finding your mentors, and documenting your scholarship. Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

Hartman, Douglas. Community-Engaged Research: What It Is and Why It Matters. Footnotes, Vol. 50, Issue 1. Winter 2022

London, Rebecca A., et al. “We Are About Life Changing Research”: Community Partner Perspectives on Community-Engaged Research Collaborations. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Vol. 26, No. 1. March 31, 2022

Matias, J. Nathan, Tenure Lessons for Engaged Scholars. Medium (2021)

McKay and Lopez (eds). New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-Producing Knowledge for Justice. Special Issue, Social Sciences

McKay, Lopez, and London (eds). New Trends in Community-Engaged Research, Volume2: New Voices, Critical Approaches. Special Issue, Social Sciences

Miller, D. and Pelco, L. E. (2023) Community-engaged faculty activity: A resource guide for department chairs. Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

Miller, Derek, et al. Supporting Inclusive Excellence through Community-Engaged Scholarship and Teaching. November 5, 2018

Nelson, Alondra, and William Kearney. Science and Technology Now Sit in the Center of Every Policy and Social Issue (with a response from Nancy Kidd and Heather Washington). Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2. Winter 2033

Schaberg, Christopher. Lessons in Public Scholarship. Inside Higher Ed. July 25, 2023

Smit, Jorrit P. and Lauren K. Hessels. The production of scientific and societal value in research evaluation: a review of societal impact assessment methods. Research Evaluation, Vol. 30, Issue 3. April 11, 2021

Squires, Gregory D. Academic Institutions: Roadblocks or Ramps? Footnotes, Vol. 50, Issue 1. Winter 2022

Vitullo, Margaret Weigers. A Critical, Engaged Path to Advancing Social Justice and the Discipline. Footnotes, Vol. 50, Issue 1. Winter 2022

Warren, Mark R., et al. Is Collaborative, Community-Engaged Scholarship More Rigorous Than Traditional Scholarship? On Advocacy, Bias, and Social Science Research. Urban Education, Vol. 53, Issue 4, March 14, 2018