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Read Now: Latest Publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations

Click here to read the latest publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal. This issue is on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations.

Links to each article in the issue are below:

Research articles

A Welcome and Call for Collaborators
Jamilah Ducar

Navigating the Tensions of Community Engagement Evaluation through Culturally Responsive and Equity-Oriented Approaches
Paul Kuttner, Kunga Denzongpa, Alan Wells

Implementing Rest as Resistance: Balance Care for Students, Community, and Self
Dresden Frazier, Karen Cotterman

Toward (Racial) Justice-in-the-Doing of Place-Based Community Engagement
Tami Moore, Lindsey Phillips Abernathy, Gregory C. Robinson II, Marshan Marick, Mike Stout

Extractive Knowledge: Epistemic and Practical Challenges for Higher Education Community Engagement
Nancy McHugh, Samantha Kennedy, Ashley Wright

Family-Centered Theory of Change: A Conceptual Framework for Improving Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate STEM Courses
Juan Salinas, Parwinder Grewal, Jose Gutierrez, Nicolar Pereyra, Dagoberto Ramirez, Elizabeth Salinas, Griselda Salinas, Virginia Santana, Can Saygin

Engaging Epistemic Tensions in Graduate Education: Promising Practices and Processes from the Tulane Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship
Lucas Diaz, Ryan McBride, Diana Soto-Olson, Agnieszka Nance

Experiential Extractivism in Service-Learning and Community Engagement: What We Take and What We Leave Behind
Sarah Eliza Stanlick

The People-Place Dilemma: The Challenge for Anchor Networks in Legacy Cities: The Challenge for Anchor Networks in Legacy Cities
Todd Swanstrom, Ifeanyi Ukpabi, Elaina Johns-Wolfe

Many Bumps in the Road: The Tensions of Cross-Organizational Navigation Among Street Level Bureaucrats in a University/Public School Partnership
Shallegra Moye