Tear Down These Walls Break the Barriers in Community Engagement

• Published in: Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement pp. 235 - 236
• Main Author: Davenport, Brian
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2019
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Community Partners; Impact; Partnership Forms; Higher Education; Washington Area; Hopeful; Community Engagement; Faculty Engagement; Partnership Process; Wicked Problems; Foundational Ideas; Higher Education Institutions; Deep; Washington; Inland Northwest; Higher Education Engagement; Greater Spokane; Partners; Community Engagement Work; Numerous Barriers; Specific Academic Discipline; Academic Departments; Eastern; Eastern Washington University
• ISBN: 9781620368558; 1620368544; 9781620368541; 1620368552
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003443353-16

In this chapter, the author reflects on the past and current state of community engagement, he find himself hopeful. However, even though the number of partnerships continues to grow, it is all too common that community engagement work takes place through a partnership between a university and the community framed by a particular academic discipline. In addition to the need to break down barriers between academic departments and disciplines, there is also a need to break down barriers between institutions. The author have recently had the privilege of becoming part of Partners in Campus and Community Engagement (PICCE), a collaborative of community partners and higher education institutions in the greater Spokane, Washington area. Although PICCE is still developing and evolving, it is already having the desired impact in streamlining the partnership process between community partners and higher education institutions.