The June 2002 Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop included eight students from Royal Roads University. Here's an article about it in the RRU newsletter: KM 650.
The issues and possibilities that come up in collaboration between a university and a community (such as the one we simulate in the worskhop or such as the one that has actually grown up around the Foundations workshop) are complex and quite interesting. Alice MacGillivray and I worked on a paper about the subject but haven't yet finished it (or found the right place to publish it!) ...