Community-Engaged, Digital, & Public Scholarship

Community-Engaged Scholarship

Definitions and Perspectives

“I define engaged scholarship as when faculty engage their expertise with those of community stakeholders to co-create knowledge that serves the public good. Examples of such projects might include new training for health professionals on the role of implicit bias in medical diagnosis, a newly designed playground for a school with children with physical disabilities or an oral history project exploring the effect of DACA on college students” (O’Meara, , Inside Higher Ed, 2018).

(Lynn Blanchard and Andrew Furco, 2021, The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship)
(A HuMetrics Initiative)
(Charles Glassick, 2000)
da Cruz, C.G. (2018). Community-Engaged Scholarship: Toward a Shared Understanding of Practice. The Review of Higher Education 41(2), 147-167. .
(Connecticut Campus Compact)
(University of South Florida)
(AAC&U)
(The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven)
(Campus Compact)

Criteria for Evaluation

(a toolkit from the American Sociological Association)
(Campus Compact)
(Modern Languages Association, 2022)
(American Historical Association)
(Pomerantz, Santos, & Bernhard, Inside Higher Ed, 2025)

Support for CES at Other Colleges and Universities

(criteria for evaluating community-based scholarship listed toward the end of page)
The University of Minnesota

Digital Scholarship

“The use of digital tools, instructional design, library science, and research methods to critically investigate and interpret ideas, and to create, curate, or publish scholarly products and unique learning experiences” (Rowan University)

(Rowan University)
(Modern Language Association)
(American Historical Association)
(University of Florida)
(Center for Digital Research @ University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
(The Association for Computers and the Humanities)

Public Scholarship

“An intellectually and methodologically rigorous endeavor that is responsive to public audiences and public peer review. Public scholarship is scholarly work that advances one or more academic disciplines by emphasizing the co-production of knowledge with community stakeholders” (from )

(American Anthropological Association)
(ADE Bulletin 159, 2022, Modern Languages Association Academic Program Services)
(Imagining America, 2022)

of helpful definitions and distinctions related to community-engaged scholarship and other traditionally under-represented forms of scholarship (prepared by FPC in Fall, 2022)

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