Nancy Brattain RogersLinda MauleGreg Bierly
The development of collaborative partnerships between education, business, social services, and government that contribute to the academic mission of the University and directly benefit the community.
Community engagement includes activities in the teaching, research, and service endeavors of faculty, students, and staff.
Technical assistance and applied research to help increase understanding of a local or regional problem or test solutions for that problem.
Lectures, seminars, and other public forum that provide a neutral place to explore community issues.
Extension of learning beyond the University walls and into the community.
Enriching the cultural life of the community. Service, including internships and service-learning, that
directly benefits the public. Economic development initiatives, including technology
transfer and support for small businesses. Involvement of community members in planning and
decision making activities of the University.
A specific conception of faculty work that connects the intellectual assets of the institution (i.e. faculty expertise) to public issues such as community, social, cultural, human and economic development. Through engaged forms of teaching and research, faculty apply their academic expertise to public purposes, as a way of contributing to the fulfillment of the core mission of the institution. Holland, 2005
Purpose Process Product
Practice Theory Problems Addressed
Methods
Public Scholarship Deliberative Complex “public problems” requiring deliberation
Face to face, open forums
Participatory Research
Participatory Democracy
Inclusion of specific groups
Face to face collaboration with specific publics
Community Partnership
Social Democracy Social change, structural transformation
Collaboration with intermediary groups
Public Information Networks
Democracy broadly understood
Problems of networking, communication
Databases of public resources
Civic literacy scholarship
Democracy broadly understood
Enhancing public discourse
Communication with general public
Teaching ↓
Scholarly Teaching↓
Scholarship of Teaching
Engagement↓
Scholarly Engagement↓
Scholarship of Engagement
Traditional tenure and promotion expectations
Lack of training for faculty◦ How to develop and sustain relationships with the
community ◦ How to incorporate SOE into their own scholarly
agenda◦ How to evaluate the scholarly work of colleagues
Limited resources and competing priorities
Link strategically to each of the three promotion and tenure categories◦ Curriculum Innovation and Assessment of
Learning Outcomes Integration into a single course Integration throughout department’s curriculum
◦ Scholarly Articles/Presentations Utilizing Disciplinary Standards
◦ Community Service Connected to Disciplinary Knowledge
Teaching◦ Integrate qualitative/quantitative assessment
of teaching effectiveness◦ Integrate qualitative/quantitative assessment
of learning outcomes (e.g. The Measure of Service Learning: Research Scales to Assess Student Experiences (Bringle et. A.) )
Research◦ Connect theory and research (generalizability,
reliability, validity)◦ Submit work to refereed journals◦ Identify quality of journal in which the article is
printed ◦ Describe work in the same language used to
describe disciplinary research Service
Disciplinary research Scholarship of teaching, engagement,
advising – discipline-based; published in disciplinary journals
Scholarship of teaching, engagement, advising – published in teaching, higher ed journals
Clear goals Adequate preparation Appropriate methods Significant results Effective presentation Reflective critique
◦ Glassick, C.E., Huber, M. T. & Maeroff, G. I. (1997). Scholarship assessed.
Evaluation of the professoriate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.