Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative, (The): A National Change Initiative Focused on Faculty Roles and Rewards

This issue includes papers emanating from the work of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative, a three-year (2004-2007) initiative designed to build capacity for community-engaged scholarship (CES) in health professional schools. As the core principles and challenges of CES are similar across disciplines, readers will find the Collaborative's processes, products, and outcomes relevant to any institutional context. This paper presents the rationale and context for the Collaborative; describes its institutional change model, key components, and lessons learned; and introduces the Faculty for the Engaged Campus initiative that builds from the Collaborative's work.