Subject: Community Engaged Scholarship Supplementary Documents From: "Donald Snyder" Date: Tue, April 16, 2019 3:20 pm To: "Thomas Robinson" (more) Priority: Normal Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file | Add to Address Book | View as HTML Hello faculty senators. At the additional forum I held last week there were some requests for materials we used in defining and thinking about community engaged scholarship within P&T policy. I am attaching three documents for your reference. First is a paper entitled, "From Rhetoric to Reality: A Typology of Publicly Engaged Scholarship" by Doberneck, Glass, and Schweitzer. This paper helps define publicly engaged scholarship and discussed some of the issues in disciplinary boundaries and resistance. At its core is Michigan Statue University's definition of community engaged scholarship as, "a scholarly endeavor that cross-cuts teaching, research [and creative activities], and service. It involves generating, transmitting, applying, and preserving knowledge for the direct benefit of external audiences in ways that are consistent with university and unit missions." Clear here is that community engaged scholarship is not just teaching or service, but scholarship that remains constant with the University's conceptualization of scholarship (and how it is reviewed as such). The second document is by KerryAnn O'Meara, who has worked with campus leaders on ways of recognizing community engaged scholarship efforts at UMBC. This was published on Inside Higher Ed and is titled, "Essay calls for reform of tenure and promotion system." This offers a nice overview of our decision to move forward with this initiative. Finally is a document that collects policies that have already been revised at various academic institutions, which was also prepared by KerryAnn O'Meara. The other bit of information I want to communicate is that the University System of Maryland has also created a subcommittee to initiate this policy change across the entire system. Our policy could potentially act as a model for this wider scale adoption. I know this is a lot of information but I am hoping that I can address everybody's questions and concerns before our next faculty senate meeting. So please let me know if you would like any clarification. Sincerely, Don (Chair, Faculty Affairs) -- Donald Snyder, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Media and Communication Studies UMBC 419 Fine Arts 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410 455 2041 dsnyder@umbc.edu www.linkedin.com/in/dsnyderumbc