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In this section:
What is Community-University Engagement
Bruce Muirhead, Director of the Community Service and Research Centre, University of Queensland:
In his rationale for the Higher Education, Community Engagement & Civic Responsibility Project & Network, Bruce Muirhead defines community-university engagement as:
“a collection of practices loosely grouped under a policy framework designed to connect...a university with its naturally constituent community.”
He also illustrates the difference between ‘community service’ and ‘community-university engagement’, emphasising that:
“Regardless of the vast resources and expertise base of universities, effective community development cannot be “done to” nor “done for” a community.”
Instead, effective community development requires partnership working between universities and communities towards a mutual outcome or solution.
Sir David Watson, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Brighton:
In his keynote presentation to the Second “Inside Out” conference on university-community engagement in July 2003 Sir David Watson described the approach as follows:
“In terms of community it presents a challenge to universities to be of and not just in the community; not simply to engage in “knowledge-transfer” but to establish a dialogue across the boundary between the university and its community which is open-ended, fluid and experimental.”
Read David Watson's paper 'Universities and civic engagement: a critique and a prospectus'
Or view the presentation slide show in Powerpoint (1Mb) or pdf format (820Kb)
Further speeches:
The
voluntary sector and HE - making the connection
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Newsroom/Speeches/Pages/Speech-30.aspx
Speech made by Diana Warwick, Universities UK Chief Executive, at National
Council for Voluntary Organisations conference in 2001
Delivering
the third mission - does one size fit all?
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Newsroom/Speeches/Pages/Speech-44.aspx
Speech made by Professor Roderick Floud, Universities UK President,
at Aimhigher: Higher Education Regional Development Agency SW conference
in 2001
Articles:
Angie Hart, Simon Northmore, Chloe Gerhardt and Polly Rodriguez have written an article about the Cupp Helpdesk as a model of an 'enabling platform' for university-community engagement.
Please click on the link below to read the full article:
Developing Access between Universities and Local Community Groups: A University Helpdesk in Action
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Volume 13, Number 3, p.45 (2009)
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