This section includes a listing of sites focused on civic engagement work, including community-based research, service-learning, methods of engaging the community, and the civic purposes of higher education.

Co-Create UMBC: http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/

Written by David Hoffman, Coordinator for Leadership and Engagement Initiatives at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, this blog focuses largely on the doings at UMBC, particularly with their student government association. However, Hoffman also writes a lot about students engaging their communities, as well as the benefits of students becoming co-creators of their own democracy. For those interested in a discussion of the merits of public service among college students, this site is worth looking into. 

Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Collaborative is a group of 8 health professional schools that aims to build capacity within their institutions, as well as their peers nationally, for community-based participatory research, service-learning, and other forms of community-engaged scholarship. [Read Overview (mht document)]

International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy: http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/international-consortium/home.html

The consortium (IC) “seeks to explain and advance the contributions of higher education to democracy on college and university campuses, their local communities and the wider society.” Collaborating with the Council of Europe, IC addresses through research and projects the crisis in democratic development globally, the role that education and schooling can play in increasing democratic participation, and the responsibility of higher education toward this cause.

Participatory Action Research Collective (City University of New York Graduate Ctr): http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/start.htm

The PAR collective conducts projects aimed at energizing underserved youth to inform the conversation on issues affecting them, by engaging these youth as researchers. The members of the collective develop social theory and social action based on reconsiderations of research validity and reliability. Their goal is to garner the participation of those most affected by the social issues. The site provides a good summary of the theories and values behind action research and its inception, as well as examples of action research projects that have been conducted by members of the collective.