- Community-engaged research, at its very core, aims to better understand issues from the perspective of communities, and to solve problems for the betterment of those communities.
- Community-engaged research, when properly done, can be transformative: transforming the relationship between universities and communities, challenging the underlying structures that result in inequities in opportunities, health, and sustainability, and identifying sustainable solutions that reflect local knowledge and lived experiences.
- From the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education, community engagement in academic research is defined as follows:
