Tenure & Promotion https://urbanresearchnetwork.org Urban Research-Based Action Network Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:09:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/urbanresearchnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-URBAN.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tenure & Promotion https://urbanresearchnetwork.org 32 32 Civic Engagement, Civic Development, and Higher Education https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/civic-engagement-civic-development-and-higher-education/ Mon, 23 Feb 2015 01:51:10 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=2760 Read more…]]> How can colleges and universities build capacity for civic engagement and civic development? Previous monographs in the Civic Series have examined various ways of achieving this purpose—strengthening student learning, involving the faculty, and establishing campus-community partnerships. Civic Engagement, Civic Development, and Higher Education, the fourth in the series, focuses on the instrumental role of leadership and highlights the importance of individuals who are integral to the building process. Included among the authors are presidents, chancellors, deans, and distinguished professors who recognize the infrastructure required for implementation, and whose leadership takes the work to the next level. These are individuals who have stepped forward with ideas, fueled by values and visions, that provide direction and inspiration for the work, without which little change is likely to last. These kinds of individuals are not the only ones involved in the building process, as change can originate almost anywhere in an institution, but they are among the most important. The authors each operate in distinct types of institutions—including small and large, public and private, from community colleges to research universities—but, together, they recognize that individuals with ideas and inspiration are forces that help build capacity for the civic mission of higher education.

The above summary text is taken from the forward to the report and is written by Barry Checkoway, General Series Editor.

Read more here.

Author(s):

Editor: Jill N. Reich

Series Editor: Barry Checkoway

Publication Date:
2014

]]> Report: Bringing Theory to Practice Seminar https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/report-may-2014-bringing-theory-to-practice-seminar/ Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:03:23 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=2554 Read more…]]> This is a report of the Bringing Theory to Practice Seminar held on May 5, 2014 at UMass Boston.  The purpose of this seminar was to examine and explore a wide range of faculty rewards (including promotion criteria, awards, faculty development support, and policies at various levels) that provide incentives and recognition to faculty for undertaking community-engaged scholarship (CES). Throughout our discussions, we considered community-engaged scholarship as the advancement of knowledge focusing on social issues through mutually beneficial, reciprocal collaboration with peers outside the university who have locally grounded knowledge and experience.

The report is intended to be actively used to engage further discussion and to provide recommendations to the UMass system on how changes to faculty rewards can be developed and how the University’s commitment to CES can be further encouraged.

Access the report here

]]> Taking a Stand: Community-Engaged Scholarship on the Tenure Track https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/taking-a-stand-community-engaged-scholarship-on-the-tenure-track/ Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:19:50 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=1959 Read more…]]> This article assesses the journey to tenure among higher education faculty whose scholarship focuses on community engagement. It provides examples for two categories of action—contextual interventions and structural interventions—that agents of the university enact in order to create space for their approach to scholarship. It also describes structural transformation, which is the product of strategically conceived and deployed structural interventions that fundamentally alter university reward structures and culture so as to promote and support community-engaged scholarship. Finally, this piece describes a contextual intervention by the author that has allowed him to work within local communities while meeting standards of research and teaching that move him toward tenure.

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Author(s):

Kevin Michael Foster

Publication Date:

2010

 

Thank you to the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) for kindly allowing URBAN to share this resource.  JCES is published twice a year at The University of Alabama. It is a peer-reviewed international research journal through which faculty, staff, students, and community partners disseminate scholarly works. JCES integrates teaching, research, and community engagement in all disciplines, addressing critical problems identified through a community-participatory process.

]]> Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/scholarship-in-public-knowledge-creation-and-tenure-policy-in-the-engaged-university/ Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:00:56 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=771 Read more…]]> 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.

Read more here.

Author(s):

Julie Ellison

Timothy Eatman

Publication Date:

2008

 

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