The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field - Hardcover
Synopsis
This book, offered by "practitioner-scholars," is an exploration and identification of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are central to supporting effective community engagement practices between higher education and communities. The discussion and review of these core competencies are framed within a broader context of the changing landscape of institutional community engagement and the emergence of the Community Engagement Professional as a facilitator of engaged teaching, research, and institutional partnerships distinct from other academic professionals.
This research, conducted as part of Campus Compact's Project on the Community Engagement Professional, seeks to identify the shared knowledge and practices of Community Engagement Professionals by looking to empirical practice literature. Chapters include an exploration of competencies applicable to those in Community Engagement Professional roles generally, and also to those specializing in specific areas such as faculty development, partnership facilitation, and other areas of responsibility. The authors trace the evolution of engagement administration over time and the role of those facilitating community-campus engagement toward a "Second Generation" professional who is at once a "tempered radical, transformational leader, and social entrepreneur."
Central to the work is a presentation of the core competency findings, along with suggestions for continued exploration. Dostilio and her colleagues argue that Community Engagement Professionals should claim a professional identity grounded in a set of core competencies, values, and knowledge, and through association with a community of scholar practitioners similarly dedicated. Additional work to understand and empower Community Engagement Professionals in their role as distinct from other higher education professional types will enable both broader impact for institutions and communities now with a view to prepare those coming to the role for a dynamic and demanding environment without distinct boundaries.
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Review
"This book illuminates important work of thinly acknowledged citizens of academe - Community Engaged Professionals. It advances the movement for publicly engaged scholarship giving voice to their person, place and purpose in Academe with myriad inflections beyond campus borders. Couched in a conceptually rich analysis of the professions the authors demonstrate the multidimensionality and complexity of this rising class and their critical place in the university of the 21st century."--Timothy Eatman, Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Director for Research for Imagining America (IA)
Dostilio and her colleagues have incorporated an innovative empirical approach in charting the evolving role and responsibilities of CEPS. A practice scholar community of just over a dozen professionals spent nearly a year in conversation to review the literature and share their own perspectives on their work. The product of this initial effort was validated through a robust survey process of piloting and refining the outcomes. The process, involving hundreds of responding professionals, has identified key competencies that serve as compass points in the journey of becoming an effective CEP. Coupling the professional literature with the practical perspective of professionals in the field, this volume provides a comprehensive and broad contextual spectrum of necessary skills for serving students, faculty, campus centers, institutions, and the community. This book is an important resource for the new generation of professionals who must face a myriad of tasks and challenges that did not exist for the previous generation of professionals who launched pedagogical movement that has since become a professional field unto itself. At the same time, the book honors the legacy of the work provided by the early advocates of community engagement while looking ahead to guide future leaders of the field as they advance this work. This book combines and provides both a unique inquiry approach that will serve as a model for future research and a robust skill set that emerged from the inquiry that will serve the next generation of engaged educational leaders well. --Marshall Welch"
"Dostilio and her colleagues have incorporated an innovative empirical approach in charting the evolving role and responsibilities of CEPS. A practice scholar community of just over a dozen professionals spent nearly a year in conversation to review the literature and share their own perspectives on their work. The product of this initial effort was validated through a robust survey process of piloting and refining the outcomes. The process, involving hundreds of responding professionals, has identified key competencies that serve as compass points in the journey of becoming an effective CEP. Coupling the professional literature with the practical perspective of professionals in the field, this volume provides a comprehensive and broad contextual spectrum of necessary skills for serving students, faculty, campus centers, institutions, and the community. This book is an important resource for the new generation of professionals who must face a myriad of tasks and challenges that did not exist for the previous generation of professionals who launched pedagogical movement that has since become a professional field unto itself. At the same time, the book honors the legacy of the work provided by the early advocates of community engagement while looking ahead to guide future leaders of the field as they advance this work. This book combines and provides both a unique inquiry approach that will serve as a model for future research and a robust skill set that emerged from the inquiry that will serve the next generation of engaged educational leaders well."--Marshall Welch
-This book illuminates important work of thinly acknowledged citizens of academe - Community Engaged Professionals. It advances the movement for publicly engaged scholarship giving voice to their person, place and purpose in Academe with myriad inflections beyond campus borders. Couched in a conceptually rich analysis of the professions the authors demonstrate the multidimensionality and complexity of this rising class and their critical place in the university of the 21st century.---Timothy Eatman, Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Director for Research for Imagining America (IA)
-Dostilio and her colleagues have incorporated an innovative empirical approach in charting the evolving role and responsibilities of CEPS. A practice scholar community of just over a dozen professionals spent nearly a year in conversation to review the literature and share their own perspectives on their work. The product of this initial effort was validated through a robust survey process of piloting and refining the outcomes. The process, involving hundreds of responding professionals, has identified key competencies that serve as compass points in the journey of becoming an effective CEP. Coupling the professional literature with the practical perspective of professionals in the field, this volume provides a comprehensive and broad contextual spectrum of necessary skills for serving students, faculty, campus centers, institutions, and the community. This book is an important resource for the new generation of professionals who must face a myriad of tasks and challenges that did not exist for the previous generation of professionals who launched pedagogical movement that has since become a professional field unto itself. At the same time, the book honors the legacy of the work provided by the early advocates of community engagement while looking ahead to guide future leaders of the field as they advance this work. This book combines and provides both a unique inquiry approach that will serve as a model for future research and a robust skill set that emerged from the inquiry that will serve the next generation of engaged educational leaders well.---Marshall Welch
About the Author
Lina D. Dostilio
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