LibGuides: Teaching and Learning Resources: Community Engagement

Community Engagement at Castleton

Castleton's Tradition of Service

"Castleton has a rich history of such community engagement, serving the town of Castleton and surrounding communities since its founding. This ethos defines Castleton as a university and as a premier public institution in New England. This idea of community engagement infuses the Castleton education, from the classroom curriculum to the experiences of residence life and student activities."

Community Engagement
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At the CU Library

Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines by Heather K. Evans (Editor)
Call Number: T&L 378.103 C737
Publication Date: 2017-11-22
This book is a reference to administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various best practices across the disciplines in higher education about integrating community engagement in traditional coursework are presented.
The Engaged Campus: Certificates, Minors and Majors as the New Community Engagement by Dan W. Butin (Editor); Scott Seider (Editor)
Call Number: Stacks 378.103 En31
Publication Date: 2012-07-24
The Engaged Campus offers a set of emerging best practices and articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding majors or minors in community engagement at their respective institutions.

eBooks at CU

Higher Education and Democracy by John Saltmarsh (Editor); Edward Zlotkowski (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-01-28
"Higher Education and Democracy" is a collection of essays on how civic engagement in higher education works to achieve what the authors consider to be the academic and civic purposes of higher education.
Service Learning Through Community Engagement by Lori Gardinier
Publication Date: 2016-10-15
Presenting a variety of contemporary models and frameworks for community engagement, this book is distinguished by its unique emphasis on campus-community partnerships from the perspective of the community.
To Serve a Larger Purpose by John Saltmarsh (Editor); Matthew Hartley (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-06-10
Using multiple perspectives, 'To Serve a Larger Purpose' explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call 'democratic engagement.'