Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University

Publicly engaged academic work is taking hold in American colleges and universities, part of a larger trend toward civic professionalism in many spheres. But tenure and promotion policies lag behind public scholarly and creative work and discourage faculty from doing it. Disturbingly, the authors’ interviews revealed a strong sense that pursuing academic public engagement is viewed as an unorthodox and risky early career option for faculty of color. (more…)

Guidebook for Designing Community-Based Courses

Developed by the Cal Corps Public Service Center at the University of California, Berkeley, this handbook provides resources to assist scholars in creating, implementing, and strengthening engaged scholarship courses. Some of the resources include guiding questions to help practitioners in thinking through their own ideas. Themes related to community-engaged teaching, research, and service are explored. (more…)

PROMO BOX

RFP:  Next Generation Engagement Grounded in the work of NERCHE’s Next Generation Engagement project and CED’s focus on academic programs in civic engagement, the Lynton Colloquium and the Request for Proposals which grew out of the meeting seek to foster sustained and systematic investigations that will support deeper understandings of and clearer Read more…