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.