Hall, Budd L2025-12-022009Hall, B. L. (2009). Higher education, community engagement, and the public good: Building the future of continuing education in Canada. Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 35(1), 11–23. https://doi.org/10.21225/D5BC7Nhttp://115.241.36.18:4000/handle/123456789/886This article is about the potential for university-community engagement to serve the public good by transforming the health and well-being of our communities. It documents contemporary expressions of and renewed calls for community university engagement. It includes a detailed treatment of community based research, discussed in the overall context of community-university engagement. The article also explores some other important and growing dimensions of community university engagement, including the development of structures for the support of community-based research and community-service learning. It concludes with an argument that university-community engagement, while not the only current trend in higher education that affects our work in continuing education, is nonetheless a very important new development in which continuing education has much to offer and much to gain.enCommunity-University EngagementCommunity Based Participatory ResearchSDG 4: Quality EducationSDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsRegion-CanadaArticle