Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit

This toolkit offers a guide to the best resources on engaged scholarship, along with models, exemplars, and original essays. Developed by The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN), for which Campus Compact serves as coordinator, the toolkit offers information and resources for all institutions seeking to implement or expand engaged scholarship on campus. The purposes of this toolkit are: 

• To add clarity to the meaning and conceptualization of community-engaged scholarship in a research university context;
• To provide a rationale for why to do it and resources on how to do it well;
• To provide tools and assistance for faculty at research universities to document engaged scholarship for reward and promotion (i.e., how to get credit for it); and
• To provide tools and assistance for enabling the assessment of engaged scholarship (i.e., for faculty reward and promotion).