Across Canada and the rest of the world, many challenges are associated with community engaged scholarship (CES). Along with these challenges are growing expectations of community engagement that have not yet been fully matched by a growth in institutional supports for community-engaged scholarship, including professional recognition. The following research report examines the policies and practices regarding community engages scholarship with findings suggesting that although CES is unevenly represented in written documents, Canada enjoys a rich ground of practice and experience upon which to build improved policies.