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University-Community Partnerships in the Literature

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In this chapter, we offer a review of university-community partnership literature, linked mostly to the disciplines we uncovered in our case universities as, essentially, carrying the torch of such partnerships. The literature is drawn from a review of scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) journals across disciplines, though limited to English-language journals.

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    Thomas Andrew Bryer & Ashley Wilt Connors

  2. Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Thomas Andrew Bryer

  3. Institute of Public Affairs, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Cristian Pliscoff

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Bryer, T.A., Pliscoff, C., Wilt Connors, A. (2020). University-Community Partnerships in the Literature. In: Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships. Rethinking University-Community Policy Connections. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19666-0_3

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