The Relationship of Community Engagement With Universities’ Core Missions

Benneworth, Paul, Charles, David, Hodgson, Catherine and Humphrey, Lynne (2013) The Relationship of Community Engagement With Universities’ Core Missions. In: University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 85-101. ISBN 9789400748743

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Abstract

This chapter seeks to highlight and make explicit some of the tensions and issues that arise inside universities seeking to engage, and to provide insights into how activities framed as peripheral, contingent and voluntary can become significant to a particular institution. This chapter begins from the perspective that a university can be regarded as a set of groupings with different, and sometimes competing, interests. For community engagement to become a serious institutional interest, engagement must offer something to each grouping within the university. This chapter explores the dynamics of these institutional dialogues as a means of understanding university–community engagement. Different groupings have different kinds of attachments to community engagement as a means of fulfilling their own interests. Where institutional narratives of community engagement can be found that encompass many different groupings’ attitudes, then community engagement can become important to the university. Otherwise, internal tensions frame community engagement as working against institutional interests, and hence reinforce its peripherality, contingency and optionality.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Capital, Community Engagement, Engagement Activity, Individual Social Capital
Subjects:	L400 Social Policy N200 Management studies
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2018 11:37
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2019 09:51
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/37344

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