ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on presenting examples of university-community collaborations aimed at promoting the life chances of America's youth and families. It promotes outreach scholarship requires input from both the faculty and community cultures. The chapter discusses the process of community collaboration rests on co-learning: Members of the campus and the community contexts need to learn about each other's culture in order for productive and effective outreach scholarship to result. It helps persuade university and community teams that it is possible to pursue successfully collaborative youth-devel-opment efforts. It describes several authors noting that incentives will need to be created to provide an exciting and attractive basis for the reorientation of the work of established scholars and for the reward of a career in outreach scholarship among junior faculty. It also underscore the presence of common issues involved in building outreach universities, the need to establish co-learning between universities and communities and changing the faculty reward system to promote outreach scholarship.
