New Paradigms for Faculty Rewards: An Action Planning Workshop to Support Engaged Faculty

It’s been ten years since Ernest Boyer published “Scholarship Reconsidered” offering academia a new paradigm recognizing a fuller range of scholarly activity.

Since then, a growing number of faculty have embraced Boyer’s expanded definitions of scholarship. Tenure and promotion guidelines have been revised to reflect his categories: Discovery, Integration, Application and Teaching. His approaches to community based research and teaching have inspired faculty to expand and integrate their research, teaching and service.

This workshop provided a place for campus teams of administrators, faculty and staff to: engage in dialogue about challenges for civically engaged faculty in current faculty rewards processes on campuses, engage promising practices from our institutions and networks, analyze current faculty rewards policies and build forward to context specific implementation scenarios.

This workshop was held May 27 & 28, 2009
at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Click here to download the workshop brochure

November 6, 2009: New Hampshire (tentative) - Faculty Rewards Grantee Networking Day

Northern New England Faculty Rewards Grant Application (RFP)- Due August 14, 2009

Action Planning Sheets

Resources: (Click here for the NH website rources page)

Engaged Scholarship Toolkit from the Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) is now available on the Campus Compact national website which includes:

The Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) Toolkit, designed to provide community-engaged health professional faculty with a set of tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure.
http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info

Online Resource for Publishing Diverse Products of Community-Engaged Scholarship Now Available
November 3rd marked the public launch of CES4Health.info, a free online resource for publishing diverse products of community-engaged scholarship.  The first twelve products accepted by CES4Health.info - including a film about health impacts of the built environment in post-Katrina New Orleans and a cultural competency curriculum for health professionals - reflect the depth and breadth of knowledge made possible through community-academic partnerships.  And yet regrettably, such products rarely "count" in the faculty promotion and tenure process nor are they routinely disseminated beyond the communities with which the work was conducted. CES4Health.info aims to change this situation by tackling these challenges head-on.

Portfolio excerpts from community-engaged faculty members whohave been promoted and/or tenured.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/toolkit-portexamples.html

The CES review, promotion and tenure (RPT) package that includes 8 characteristics of quality CES, a sample dossier for presenting CES work to RPT committees, and a group exercise simulating an RPT committee process that can be used as an educational tool with RPT committees.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/CES_RPT_Package.pdf

The Building Capacity for Community Engagement: Institutional Self-Assessment that is designed to assess the capacity of a given higher educational institution (or unit therein) for community engagement and CES, and to identify opportunities for action.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/self-assessment-copyright.pdf

Faculty for the Engaged Campus, a national initiative of CCPH in partnership with the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy, supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the US Department of Education.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/faculty-engaged.html

One of the original essays, "Practical tools for overcoming the challenges of advancing your career as an engaged scholar" is authored by Cathy Jordan, Co-Director of Faculty for the Engaged Campus.
http://tiny.cc/HXIDr