Resource Library

Consultation Resources

In addition to our consultation services, we can share additional resources to support your community engagement. We would be glad to work with you to incorporate any of these resources into your community-engaged efforts.

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Readings & Tools

• Arranging Transportation

  Discover local and campus-based transportation resources at Michigan that you can tap into for community-engaged courses, programs and projects

• Civic and Democratic Engagement     

  Explore resources to help support students' civic learning such as short lesson plans and expert advice on helping students dialogue around issues important to them and their discipline. Includes resources for supporting student voting and activism, activities faculty and staff can do to support student democratic engagement (no matter how much time you have), and overviews of U-M policies on political campaigns.

• Connecting with Communities  

  Guidance and resources at Ginsberg Center for connecting with communities and establishing effective partnerships 

• Evaluating Community Impact     

  Explore resources to help you measure the impact of your community-engaged efforts, including evaluating partnership processes and assessing the community impact of project outcomes. 

• Community Engaged Teaching

  Explore resources and strategies for your in-person and virtual community-engaged teaching, including project-based, discipline-based, or community-based research courses. 

  • Discover how Ginsberg can support you in designing and refining community-engaged courses & research Projects. 
  • Our resources for Teaching Online Community-Engaged Courses can help support your virtual community engagement.  

• Assessment of Student Learning 

  Explore tools and resources that can help you more easily and effectively measure the impact of your community-engaged teaching, research and service on student learning. 

• Community Engaged Research   

  Discover tools and resources to support your community-engaged research intitiatives and read more about how Ginsberg Center can support your research impact.

• Community Engaged Scholarship 

  Explore community engagement research and journals that are currently shaping the field, as well as resources to support you in publishing community-engaged scholarship. 

  • Explore key articles from the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, published by the Ginsberg Center.

• Tenure & Promotion

  Explore resources to help document your Community-Engaged Scholarship and create strong portfolios for promotion and tenure.