University-community partnerships : universities in civic engagement / Tracy M. Soska, Alice K. Johnson Butterfield, editors.

"University-Community Partnerships: Universities in Civic Engagement has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of community practice, volume 12, numbers 3/4 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have identified civic engagement and community partnership as critical themes for higher education. This unique book addresses past, present, and future models of university-community partnerships, COPC programs, wide-ranging social work partnerships that involve teaching, research, and social change, and innovative methods in the processes of civic engagement. The text recognizes the many professions, schools, and higher education institutions that contribute to advancing civic engagement through university-community partnerships. One important contribution this book makes to the literature of civic engagement is that it is the first publication that significantly highlights partnership contributions from schools of social work, which are rediscovering their community roots through these initiatives