Community-based Participatory Assessment in the Engaged Humanities

Each year, between 10 -12 RAs are embedded as facilitators and participant observers in different EHN associated projects. RAs meet regularly to share project activities, workshop ideas and materials, develop resources, identify opportunities to collaborate across projects, and to develop multimedia community stories about their projects.

Over the past several years, RA cohorts have developed studies and tools to measure the impact and efficacy of their respective projects, of the EHN as a structure for mutual aid, and of the University's participation in and responsiveness to its surrounding communities.

Through these studies, RAs have explored how the University values and evaluates community engagement and have developed tools for understanding and assessing the EHN's community engagement efforts in ways that center community collaborators' perspectives and experiences in the development, implementation, and revision of community-engaged projects and programs.