Getting Started 

Introduction to Community-Based Research

• Created by the Community-Based Research Networking Initiative at Princeton, this Powerpoint presentation may be customized for your campus:  Faculty Introduction to CBR.  See also:  Faculty CBR Reading List

Multi-Day Faculty Training "Symposium for an Engaged University"

• University of Alaska-Anchorage developed a multi-day symposium to promote community-engaged scholarship:
  • Faculty Invitation: Call for Participation;
  • Training Agenda:  UAA Faculty Intensive; 
  • Readings: CBR Bibliography; 
  • Powerpoint presentations: UAA Community Engaged Scholarship;  UAA Opportunities for Community Engaged Scholarship;
  • Minigrant Announcement: CBR Minigrant Guidelines 2007-08

Managing CBR Courses & Projects 

Faculty Handbook

• Georgetown University's comprehensive, 80+ page, CBLR (Community-Based Learning and Research) Faculty Handbook: Georgetown Faculty Handbook   

Call for Faculty Participation and Request for Proposals

• Allegheny College, Pennsylvania — Introduction to CBR principles with an invitation to participate: Allegheny-Call for Participation (Note that this Invitation invites faculty to articulate their research interests which then would be shared with community partners).  The Request for Proposals requested a single page description of the project: Allegheny-RFP

Expectations for Participants

• Princeton's Community-Based Learning Initiative created this outline of expectations for faculty, students, and community partners engaging in CBR projects and courses: Expectations

 Guide for Community Partners, Faculty and Students

• Working Together: Forging Campus Community Partnerships Through Community-Based Research — Washburn University's 10-page guide includes an overview of CBR, definitions, project examples, a timeline for semester projects, roles & responsibilities, and a sample community partner agreement and student agreement: Washburn's Community Based Research Guide.doc 

Public Communication about CBR Findings & Recommendations

Resources for Talking about the Research

• Whitman College, "The State of the State for WA Latinos":
  • Assignment on Delivering an Effective Public Talk with PowerPoint;
  • Assignment on Developing Talking Points for Media Outreach;
  • Assignment on Integrating Public Outreach on CBR with Artworks
• Whitman College, sample public outreach documents: 
  • "New Research from Whitman College" for Hispanic-Latino Legislative Day 2009, Olympia WA
  • "Overview: The State of the State for Washington Latinos, Fall 2008" - cover artwork
  • "Overview: The State of the State for Washington Latinos, Fall 2008" - interior content
• After a year's work with students and community partners in Washington state, a professor at Whitman College discusses challenges and successes presented by public outreach by students about their findings: Considerations for CBR Work.doc 

Promotion & Tenure

Making Your Case

• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit is intended as a resource for community-engaged faculty on how to "make their best case" for promotion and tenure.  If you haven't checked out the site recently, you might be interested in these updates:
  • Over a dozen recently promoted and/or tenured faculty members have graciously "donated" excerpts from their portfolios
  • The Community-Engaged Scholarship Review, Promotion & Tenure (RPT) Package is designed to help RPT committees to understand community-engaged scholarship and how to assess its quality and impact. 

Student Work

Research Project Descriptions

• Bowdoin College, Maine — Brief descriptions of research projects conducted by Summer Fellows: Bowdoin Summer 2007

Student Research Summaries

• Whitman College, Washington — An Analysis of Housing Conditions for Latino Farmworker Children, and Their Impact on Educational Success: Lambert Executive Summary; Latino Access to Higher Education in the State of Washington: McNellis Executive Summary