Academic journals play a lead role in disseminating community-campus engagement scholarship. However, assessment of the content, methodologies, and authorship of this published body of works is lacking. This study was performed to review publication trends in the "Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement" ("JHEOE"),…

Community partner voices are important to understand because they provide the contexts in which occupational therapy students meet course objectives by applying clinical reasoning theory and developing clinical reasoning skills in a natural context (Witchger-Hansen et al., 2007; Provident, et al., 2011). To sustain these community-university…

The Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute) is a special entity within the National League of Cities (NLC). The YEF Institute helps municipal leaders take action on behalf of the children, youth, and families in their communities. NLC launched the YEF Institute in January 2000 in recognition of the unique and influential…

The papers presented in this monograph describe some of the experiences of nine Teacher Corps projects in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to foster community involvement in the schools. Community representation is reflected in groups of individuals which may be called the Community Council, Advisory Committee, or Steering…

S. Redding noted the many challenges facing research and researchers in family-school-community involvement, and he presented a call to "rally the troops" to respond to a series of concerns. The issue of control over defining the role of schools should be a shared enterprise among the family, the school, and the community, with the individual…

Reviews the broad social, economic, and political trends that are reshaping higher education, and introduces the two-issue series of American Behavioral Scientist (Volume 42, Issues 5-6) dedicated to analyzing innovative institutional and pedagogical endeavors and considering their potential for reshaping traditional practices. (DSK)

The report of a commission established to study and clarify the role of museums in American society is presented. The commission singled out seven conditions in museums that need to be approached with fresh insight. Specific recommendations for dealing with these conditions are made and discussed in detail. First, pressing needs concerning the…

Migration has been an essential part of American life and a contributing factor to the urbanization of its cities. The pages of history are filled with the record of the movement of people away from a lesser toward a greater opportunity and the search for security and happiness in some more favorable environment. There are two large groups of…