Note from Tami Moore (1 December 2005)
Building Capacity for Community Engagement Institutional Self-Assessment Tool Now Available! The tool is designed for higher educational institutions (or units therein) to assess their capacity for community engagement and community-engaged scholarship and to identify opportunities for action. The tool, developed by CCPH senior consultant Sherril Gelmon, is available online at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html along with slides from a presentation on the tool at last month’s International Service-Learning Research Conference. The tool is being used by schools participating in the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative to track changes in their capacity over time. Visit the Collaborative website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html.

Note from Tami Moore (21 November 2005)
You were asking about journals to publish in about the work you’ve been doing with ITD. I ran across a reference today in something called the Journal of Planning Literature, which is published at Ohio State. I don’t know anything about it, but the reference I saw made it sound like it covered regional planning and other things related to issues facing communities (defined broadly so could include state level stuff, maybe).

NECRHE: Working Paper No. 25, Scholarship Unbound: Assessing Service as Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure, KerryAnn O'Meara.
Abstract: Scholars of higher education have long recognized that existing reward systems and structures in academic communities do not weight faculty professional service as they do teaching and research. This paper examines how four colleges and universities with exemplary programs for assessing service as scholarship implemented these policies within colleges of education. Case studies suggest that policies to assess service as scholarship can increase consistency among an institution's service mission, faculty workload, and reward system; expand faculty's views of scholarship; boost faculty satisfaction; and strengthen the quality of an institution's service culture. Winter 2001.

"Reversing the Telescope: Community Development from Within." Summer 2003, www.nerche.org.
Community outreach has become a recognized and entrenched part of the agenda for higher education. Thus far, the concept of community development has only been applied to reaching out to the community beyond the campus. Colleges and communities can do a lot of good looking outside their campuses; however, they need look no farther than into their own campuses for members of the external community - many of whom are employed in the lower paid service jobs. They clean our classrooms, prepare and serve food in our cafeterias, manicure our grounds, and process our paperwork. With a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, NERCHE will chart the domain of the "civic microcosm" within the university. Project activities include holding conversations of key stakeholders with the capacity to leverage and redirect resources to support institutions of higher education in addressing the community within their institutions, developing written materials and identifying concrete programmatic examples, and developing strategic partnerships with influential groups and allies who can mobilize institutions to develop innovative programs that are responsive to local needs. 

Web links
National Clearinghouse on the Scholarship of Engagement
Association for Community and Higher Education Partnerships
Institute for Community Research
University of New Hampshire's Outreach Scholars Academy

References
Nurturing the Work: Fostering Scholarly Discovery through Communities of Practice, Frank Fear