This issue of Metropolitan Universities includes papers emanating from the work of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative, a three-year (2004-2007) initiative designed to build capacity for community-engaged scholarship (CES) in health professional schools. As the core principles and challenges of CES are similar across disciplines, readers will find the Collaborative's processes, products and outcomes relevant to any institutional contexts. This paper presents the rationale and context for the Collaborative; describes its institutional change model, key components, and lessons learned; and introduces the Faculty for the Engaged Campus initiative that builds from the Collaborative's work.