Career Development Community-Based Scholarship (13 links)

Clearinghouse and National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement. . The Clearinghouse for the Scholarship of Engagement provides consultation, training, and technical assistance to campuses who are seeking to develop or strengthen systems in support of the scholarship of engagement. It also conducts forums, programs, and regional conferences on topics related to the scholarship of engagement and provides a faculty mentoring program with opportunities for less experienced faculty to learn from the outreach experiences of more seasoned outreach scholars.

Community Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative: Annotated Bibliography. University of Washington Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Serves as an aid in reviewing the issues related to promoting community engagement and community-engaged scholarship at health professional schools. Documents were selected based on those works that were found to be of use to the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions in preparing their report, and on the experience of CCPH staff in researching issues related to community-engaged scholarship.

Community-Engaged Scholarship. University of Washington Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Provides an overview of the field of community-engaged scholarship (CES) including defining key terms, outlining assessment standards, reviewing the support for and barriers to promoting CES and discussing current efforts underway in promoting CES in academic institutions and other organizations.

Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. University of Washington Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Answers frequently-asked questions about Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) in the following areas: Defining Community Engagement and CES, Examples of CES, Funding of CES, Institutions Embracing CES, Best Practices in Institutionalizing CES, Overcoming Barriers to Embracing CES. Also includes a comprehensive list of references and related resources.

Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit. University of Washington Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Provides 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.

Faculty Service Roles and the Scholarship of Engagement (ERIC Digest). Ward, K.. The three facets of a faculty member's role in the modern university are teaching, research, and service. Although teaching and research are relatively well understood, the service role of faculty is not (Berberet, 1999; O'Meara, 1997). This uncertainty may be entirely appropriate, as the service role of faculty is expansive and often vaguely defined (Boice, 2000; Fear and Sandmann, 1995).

Linking Scholarship and Communities: Report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. University of Washington Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Recommends actions by health professional schools and their national associations that can support community-engaged scholarship, and cites promising practices that illustrate their implementation.

Measuring Scholarly Outreach at Michigan State University - Definition, Challenges, Tools. Church, R.L., Zimmerman, D.L., Bargerstock, B.A., Kenney, P.A.. Discusses MSUs definition of outreach/engagement as a form of scholarship and the conceptual and political issues that arise in determining what activities should be counted. Explains some impediments to creating a way to measure outreach activities and some general barriers to collecting such data.

Resource Guide and Recommendations for Defining and Benchmarking Engagement. Committee on Institutional Cooperation - Committee on Engagement. Defines engagement and identifies a set of benchmarks institutions can use in demonstrating their goals and values as engaged universities.

Stepping Forward As Stewards of Place: A Guide for Leading Public Engagement at State Colleges and Universities. American Association of State Colleges and Universities. A strategic guide for presidents and other campus leaders that offers a working definition of public engagement, provides exemplars of campus-wide commitment to engagement initiatives, and proposes concrete actions for institutions, public policymakers, and the association to promote an even fuller commitment to the concept of engagement.

The Scholarship of Extension and Engagement: What Does It Mean in the Promotion and Tenure Process?. Schwab, C.A.. A university dedicated to being an engaged institution must give academic rewards to faculty who participate in extension and engagement activities. The reforms needed to adequately reward faculty for these activities require a collaborative effort among the faculty reappointment, promotion and tenure candidates, extension administrators, and the appointment and promotion decision-makers. From FFCI, Vol. 8, No. 2, Editor's Corner.

When Doing Good is Not Good Enough! Good to Great: The Scholarship of Engagement. Sandmann, L.R.. Describes the nature of the scholarship of engagement that has been discovered by examining the work of faculty and discusses how the documentation and evaluation of such scholarship can help in understanding and advancing this form of scholarship. Paper presented at the National Extension Director/Administrator Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, February 12, 2003.

Working with our Communities: Moving from Service to Scholarship in the Health Professions. Maurana, C., Wolff, M., Beck, B.J., Simpson, D.E.. Provides a historical perspective on scholarship, followed by a description of four innovative approaches to documenting, recognizing and rewarding faculty work. The authors then propose a model of community scholarship that includes both standards and products, recommendations for implementation, and the qualities of a community scholar.