The Building Capacity for Community Engagement: Institutional Self-Assessment in PDF format is designed to assess the capacity of a given higher educational institution (or unit therein) for community engagement and CES, and to identify opportunities for action.

The Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) review, promotion and tenure (RPT) package  in PDF format that includes 8 characteristics of quality CES, a sample dossier for presenting CES work to RPT committees, and a group exercise simulating an RPT committee process that can be used as an educational tool with RPT committees.

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Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions (external link)

Community Engaged Scholarship (external link)

Community Based Participatory Research (external link)

Community Campus Partnerships (external link)

Portfolio excerpts from community engaged faculty members who have been promoted and/or tenured (external link)

Service Learning (external link)

The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) online toolkit on engaged scholarship comprised of an annotated bibliography of published articles, links to online resources, and a set of original essays.

The Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) toolkit, designed to provide community engaged health professional faculty with a set of tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure.