The papers offered in this monograph are the result of the Wingspread Conference on Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement and Improvement, conducted on October 27-29, 2004, in Racine, Wisconsin. The chapters seek to explore the future for campus-community collaborations and to offer a direction for research and practice that will advance engagement and capacity for such collaborations. Chapters include: Reflections on Community-Campus Partnerships: What has been Learned? What are the Next Challenges?; Higher Education Collaboratives for Community Engagement and Improvement: Faculty and Researchers' Perspectives; Challenges to Community-Higher Education Partnerships: A Call to Action; Mission and Community: The Culture of Community Engagement and Minority Serving Institutions; and Research Universities Working Together to Serve Multiple Communities: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Engagement Initiative.