We are delighted to announce that the just-published March 2012 issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) is a thematic issue dedicated to:

The paper titles are listed below to give you an idea of the range of topics covered in the issue.  The complete table of contents and the full text of every article can be accessed at http://bit.ly/aAZuc1

We'd like to especially thank JHEOE editor Trish Kalivoda, members of the leadership team for the Faculty for the Engaged Campus initiative (Sarena Seifer, Lynn Blanchard, Cathy Jordan, Sherril Gelmon and Piper McGinley) and all of the authors and peer reviewers involved for their tremendous work in pulling this issue together!  Also, the issue would not have been possible without support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education (the major funder of Faculty for the Engaged Campus).

Happy reading!

Rahma Osman

CCPH Program Assistant

Faculty for the Engaged Campus National Initiative Faculty for the Engaged Campus: Advancing Community-Engaged Careers in the Academy

Building Capacity for Community-Engaged Scholarship: Evaluation of the Faculty Development Component of the Faculty for the Engaged Campus Initiative

CES4Health.info: A Web-Based Mechanism for Dissminating Peer-Reviewed Products of Community-Engaged Scholarship: Reflections on Year One

Faculty for the Engaged Campus Funded Sites Competency-Based Faculty Development in Community-Engaged Scholarship: A Diffusion of Innovation Approach

Engaged Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Campus Integration and Faculty Development

Reflections on Community-Engaged Scholarship Faculty Development and Institutional Identity

Institutionalization of Community-Engaged Scholarship at Institutions that are both Land-Grant and Research Universities

2010 Community-Engaged Scholarship Conference: Critical Junctures in Research, Practice, and Policy

Community-Engaged Scholarship: Critical Junctures in Research, Practice, and Policy

A Needs Assessment Informs Development of a Participatory Research Faculty Development Workshop

Reflection on 10 Years of Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver

The Obesity Culture: Strategies for Change— Public Health and University-Community Partnerships

Participatory Partnerships for Social Action and Research

Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: Contemporary Landscapes, Future Directions: Volume 1: Institutional Change, and Volume 2: Community-Campus Partnerships

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