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.
The Campus Compacts of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont convened a gathering of campus teams at the University of New Hampshire on May 27-28, 2009 to explore issues related to the faculty rewards system and to begin action planning for their campuses. New Paradigms for Faculty Rewards: An Action Planning Workshop to Support Engaged Faculty offered teams of administrators, faculty and staff the opportunity 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.
Sub-grants are available to support campus teams in further developing and implementing action plans for the 20090-2010 academic year.
Links:
Northern New England Faculty Rewards Grant Application click HERE
A new online Engaged Scholarship Toolkit is now accessible on Campus Compact’s website. The toolkit offers an annotated guide to the best information available on engaged scholarship, as well as models, exemplars, and original essays. Developed by The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN), for which Campus Compact serves as coordinator, the toolkit is an essential resource for all higher education institutions seeking to implement or improve engaged scholarship.
Faculty Rewards Rubric Spring 2009
Pre-Reading Assignments:
"Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail" by John P. Kotter
Publications: Engaged Scholars UNH.doc
Publications: Engaged Scholars Writing Team April 09.doc
Further Reading
"Higher Education Community Engagement and Accreditation: Activating Engagement through Innovative Accreditation Strategies" by Sandmann, L & Williams, J.E. and Abrams, E.
National Conferences
These may be of interest to participants from the New Paradigms for Faculty Rewards Institute
AAC&U Engaging Departments Institute
July 8-12, 2009
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10th Annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference
September 28-30, 2009
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility:
Deepening Student and Campus Commitments
Network for Academic Renewal Conference – AAC&U
October 1-3, 2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ninth International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
October 9-12, 2009
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities
Network for Academic Renewal Conference – AAC&U
October 22-24, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia
2009 Assessment Institute
October 25-27, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana
Third International Symposium on Service-Learning
November 22–24, 2009 at University of Indianapolis-Athens,
Athens, Greece
THE WIT, THE WILL ... AND THE WALLET
Supporting Educational Innovation, Shaping our Global Futures
AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 20-23, 2010
Washington, DC
General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities
Network for Academic Renewal Conference
February 18-20, 2010
Seattle, Washington
Faculty Roles in High-Impact Practices
March 25-27, 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania