This book presents a model of community-based research (CBR) that engages community members with students and faculty in the course of their academic work. Noting that CBR is collaborative and change-oriented and finds its research questions in the needs of communities, it presents a dynamic research model that combines classroom learning with social action in ways that can ultimately empower community groups to address their own agendas and shape their own futures.

Strand, K., Marullo, S., Cutforth, N.,Stoecker, R., Donohue, P. (2003). Community-based research in higher education. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.