Community Engagement's Role in Creating Institutional Change Within the Academy: A Case Study of East Tampa and the University of South Florida

This case study describes a 3-year initiative in an urban neighborhood undertaken with faculty leadership, limited financial and structural resources, and a conscious decision to analyze this approach as a pathway toward building the program of community engagement through engaged scholarship. This chapter discusses the 8 guiding principles that emerged: reciprocal relationship, strengths-based, sustainable, incremental, strategic, enterprising, dissemination-oriented, and creative. The authors discuss specific strategies research-extensive universities can adopt to increase community engagement. Next steps toward institutionalizing the approach are presented. (author)