Community-Higher Education Partnerships

Equitable, authentic, and flourishing relationships require intentionality, and community-higher education partnerships are no exception. ICEE has produced scholarship exploring several aspects of community-higher education partnerships including explicating reciprocity, partnership identity and institutional partnerships, conflict, communication, and restorative practices. The publications below focus on these research areas.

Partnership Scoping Review

• Janke, E., Flores, S., & Edwards, K. (2022). Community-academic partnerships in the community engagement literature: A scoping review. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/issue/view/235 

• Janke, E, Flores, S, & Edwards, K. (2021). Dataset for “Community-academic partnerships in the community engagement literature: A scoping review”. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.3886/E146781V2. 

Explicating Reciprocity

• Dostilio, L. D., Harrison, B., Brackmann, S. M., Kliewer, B. W., Edwards, K. E., & Clayton, P. H. (2012). Reciprocity: Saying what we mean and meaning what we say. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 19(1), 17-32.

• Janke, E. M. (2013). Community participation is not a proxy for reciprocity. eJournal of Public Affairs, (2)2. Missouri State University.

Partnership Identity and Institutional Partnerships

• Kniffin, L., Camo-Biogradlija, J., Price, M. F., Kohl, E., Williams, J., Del Conte Dickovick, A., Goodwin, A., Johnson, K. V., Clayton, P. H., & Bringle, R. G. (2020). Relationships and partnerships in community– campus engagement: Evolving inquiry and practice. International Journal of Research on ServiceLearning and Community Engagement, 8(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.37333/001c.18586

• Janke, E. M. (2012). Organizational partnerships in service learning: Advancing theory-based research. In P. H. Clayton, R. G. Bringle, and J. A. Hatcher (Eds.) Research and Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment (Chapter 6.3). Sterling, VA: Stylus.

• Janke, E. M. (2009). Defining characteristics of partnership identity in faculty-community partnerships. In. B. Moely, S. Billig, & B. Holland (Eds.). Creating our identities in service-learning and community engagement. (pp. 75-101). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Conflict, Communication, and Restorative Practice

• Hemphill, M., Janke, E., Santos, F., & Gordon, B. (2021). Understanding issues of conflict and harm in the context of restorative school physical education. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education. https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2020-0134 

• Janke, E. M., & Dumlao, R. (2019). Developing communication repertoire to address conflict in community engagement work. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 21(3), 35-56.

• Hemphill, M., Janke, E., Gordon, B., & Farrar, H. (2018). Restorative youth sports: An applied model for resolving conflicts and building positive relationships. Journal of Youth Development (13)3, 76-96. DOI 10.5195/jyd.2018.60.

• Riemer, L., Schmitz, C., Janke, E., Askerov, A., Strahl, B., & Matyók, T. (2015). Transformative Change. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Dumlao, R., & Janke, E. M. (2012). Relational dialectics: Understanding and managing challenging dynamics in campus-community partnerships. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 16(2): 79-103