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Nonprofit Organization US Postage Paid Tuscaloosa AL Permit 16 The University of Alabama Office of Community Affairs — SCHOLARSHIP AND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT JOURNAL Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2011 Center for Community-Based Partnerships Box 870372 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0372 UGA and Tunisia: A Decade-Long Partnership, p. 5 Evaluating a Social Economy Research Partnership, p. 25 Teachinging RReeseasearch Dedication to Volume 4, No. 1, Spring 2011 4, No. Volume the Public Good: A Conundrum? Partnership p. 37 An International, FFaaccultyullty Students Indigenous Community Collaborative Inquiry, p. 50 The Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship is published at The University of Alabama by the Office of Book Reviews, Community Affairs for the advancement p. 75 of engagement scholarship worldwide. Man Up: Integrating Fatherhood and Community Engagement, p. 15 Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship Dr. Heather Pleasants, who is also book review editor of JCES, made the closing remarks at this year’s engaged scholarship awards program at The University of Alabama. Her words were based on the theme www.jces.ua.edu for the National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) that we will host in 2012. www.uapress.ua.edu Dr. Samory T. Pruitt, Vice President for Community Affairs, The University of Alabama Published twice a year by the Office of Community Affairs ach spring at The University of Alabama, we publicly recognize and celebrate at The University of Alabama the engaged scholarship that best represents our commitment to touching lives Distributed by The University of Alabama Press Ethrough community-based projects. ISSN: 1944-1207 We honor this work because of three important attributes at the foundation of engaged ISBN: 978-0-8173-7406-8 (paper) scholarship. ISBN: 978-0-8173-8599-6 (e-edition) The first ispartnership . The establishment of equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships is difficult work, requiring communication, consensus building, and most JCES is a peer-reviewed international journal through which faculty, staff, importantly, an ability to see all human beings as having inherent worth and dignity. We students, and community partners disseminate scholarly works. JCES celebrate our honorees and their projects because of the partnerships they have helped integrates teaching, research, and community engagement in all disciplines, create. addressing critical problems identified through a community-participatory process. The second attribute is the ability to inspire. Engaged scholarship inspires us to think differently about where expert knowledge comes from and about how that knowledge may be put to use. We are also inspired to rethink traditional boundaries that are called up when we speak of the university and the community, of town and gown, of academia Subscription rate per issue: and the real world. Most clearly, we are inspired by what is possible when a few people get together to address a common set of issues. We celebrate the best of engaged scholarship $50 institutional because of its ability to inspire. $30 individual $10 student $24 e-edition The final attribute is a commitment to positive change. We know that change is accomplished first and foremost on the level of one individual interacting positively with another. We also know that change is represented at broader levels by the translation and application of knowledge for use in addressing specific problems and issues. Our For subscription information, contact: honorees have been successful at enacting both kinds of change, and we recognize them for this. Allie L. Harper Box 870380 Partner. Inspire. Change. These three dynamic ideals are at the core of the work we Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380 205.348.1564 recognize at our awards program, and they have been chosen as the theme for NOSC [email protected] 2012. We hope you will join us to help celebrate the utility, simplicity, and power of these ideals. Dr. Heather Pleasants For information about licensing JCES contact: Director of Educational Development Center for Community-Based Partnerships Claire Lewis Evans The University of Alabama Box 870380 Box 870372 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 205.348.1561 205-348-7392 [email protected] www.ccbp.ua.edu Copyright © 2011 by The University of Alabama. All rights reserved. ISSN 1944-1207. Printed by University Printing at The University of Alabama. STAFF Publisher Assistant to the Editor Samory T. Pruitt Jessica Averitt Taylor Vice President for Community Affairs The University of Alabama The University of Alabama Editor Copy Editor/Layout Editor Cassandra E. Simon Marion Walding The University of Alabama The University of Alabama Production Editor Web Producer Edward Mullins Andrea Mabry The University of Alabama The University of Alabama JCES EDITORIAL BOARD Marsha H. Adams Hal A. Lawson The University of Alabama The University at Albany, State University of Andrea Adolph New York Kent State University Stark Campus James Leeper Katrice A. Albert The University of Alabama Louisiana State University Robert C. Liebman Theodore R. Alter Portland State University Penn State University Marybeth Lima Robert E. Bardon Louisiana State University North Carolina State University Hildy L. Miller Anna Sims Bartel Portland State University Bates College Robert L. Miller, Jr. Delicia Carey The University at Albany, State University of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention New York James D. Cashman Mary Ann Murphy The University of Alabama Pace University Jeremy Cohen dt ogilvie Penn State University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jan Cohen-Cruz Jacob Oludoye Oluwoye Syracuse University Alabama A&M University Richard L. Conville Michael E. Orok The University of Southern Mississippi Alabama A&M University Susan Curtis Ruth Paris Purdue University Boston University Mary Elizabeth Curtner-Smith Clement Alesander Price The University of Alabama Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey David J. Edelman Josephine Pryce University of Cincinnati The University of Alabama Barbara Ferman A. Scott Reed Temple University Oregon State University Hiram E. Fitzgerald Michael J. Rich Michigan State University Emory University Philip A. Greasley Howard B. Rosing University of Kentucky DePaul University Lisa Hooper Sunil Saigal The University of Alabama New Jersey Institute of Technology Susan Scheriffius Jakes Nick Sanyal North Carolina State University University of Idaho Phillip W. Johnson Amilcar Shabazz The University of Alabama University of Massachusetts Rhoda E. Johnson L. Steven Smutko The University of Alabama North Carolina State University Mary Jolley Lee H. Staples Community Volunteer, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Boston University Kimberly L. King-Jupiter John J. Stretch Lewis University Saint Louis University William S. Kisaalita John R. Wheat University of Georgia The University of Alabama J. Robert Krueger Kim L. Wilson Worcester Polytechnic Institute Purdue University Jay Lamar Diane F. Witmer Auburn University California State University Page 2—JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SCHOLARSHIP—Vol. 4, No. 1 Contents Editor’s Message Broadening Perspectives: A p. 4 Multidisciplinary Collaborative Cassandra E. Simon Teaching and Learning Experience p. 60 Building a Holistic International Carol Plummer, Teresa K. Buchanan, C. Educational Partnership: Collaboration Barrett Kennedy, Lawrence Rouse, and John Between the University of Georgia and Pine the Tunisian Higher Education System p. 5 Community Engagement: A Student Takoi K. Hamrita Perspective p. 70 Man Up: Integrating Fatherhood and Morgan Bessaw, Genevieve Gerke, Melissa Britt Hamilton, and Liza Pulsipher Community Engagement p. 15 Community Engagement: A Model Armon R. Perry Mental Health Partnership Expectations and Realities of Engaged p. 72 Gerry Ackland Scholarship: Evaluating a Social Economy Collaborative Research BOOK REVIEW Tom Angotti’s New Partnership York for Sale: Community Planning p. 25 Confronts Global Real Estate Karen Heisler, Mary Beckie, and Sean Markey p. 75 Tammy Arnstein Dedication to the Public Good: A Higher Education Conundrum? BOOK REVIEW Kevin Cahill’s Even p. 37 in Chaos: Education in Times of Nicole Nicotera, Nick Cutforth, Eric Fretz, Emergency and Sheila Summers Thompson p. 78 Megan Scanlon Navigating International, Interdisciplinary, and Indigenous INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Collaborative Inquiry p. 80 p. 50 Olga Ulturgasheva, Lisa Wexler, Michael JCES REVIEW PROCESS Kral, James Allen, Gerald V. Mohatt, and p. 81 Kristine Nystad The Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship is published at The University of Alabama by the Office of Community Affairs to advance the scholarship of engagement worldwide. To reach the editor, send an email to [email protected] or call 205-348-7392. The cover photo and design is by Marion Walding. See also www.jces.ua.edu. Vol. 4, No. 1—JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SCHOLARSHIP—Page 3 From the Editor Cassandra E. Simon, Ph.D. JCES Continues to Bring Disciplines Together As we begin our fourth year of publication, it is difficult for me to imagine the field of engaged scholarship without the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (even at the risk of sounding a bit boastful). I say this not with arrogance, but with a confidence that JCES, even in its infancy, has helped to shape the quality, type, and rigor of engaged scholarship. Have we had growing pains? Sure we have. Have we made mistakes along the way? Sure we have. Will we continue to make them as we grow? Sure we will, but not as many. Very much