Navigating Dynamic Campus-Community Relationships: How Colleges and Universities Engage with Demographic Shift

Navigating Dynamic Campus-Community Relationships explores how higher education institutions and their community partners adapt and reimagine engagement practices in response to shifting demographics. Utilizing the conceptual frameworks around anchor institutions and place-based community engagement, this volume explores the paradox of higher education as both rooted in place and also responsive to dynamic change. Featuring multivocal narratives from institutional and community members, it offers transformative insights and actionable strategies to help community members, administrators, instructors, researchers, and students foster agile, responsive partnerships.

A Co-Publication with Campus Compact.

Suchitra V. Gururaj, PhD, is a scholar-practitioner of university-community engagement. She has served as assistant vice president for community engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, for 15 years.

Brianna Davis Johnson, PhD, is an assistant dean at The Ohio State University Graduate School, USA, leading mentoring, recruitment, and retention for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.