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Faculty for the Engaged Campus
Press
Release
Overview
Background
Intended Outcomes
Leadership
Team
Faculty Development Charrette
Faculty
Development Grants
CES4Health.info
Answers
to Frequently Asked Questions
Related Resources
For More Information
This 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 by developing innovative competency-based models of faculty development, facilitating peer review and dissemination of products of community-engaged scholarship, and supporting community-engaged faculty through the promotion and tenure process. It is supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the US Department of Education.
Faculty for the Engaged Campus builds on the work of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative, a FIPSE-funded group of health professional schools that have been working together to build capacity for community-engaged scholarship on their campuses and among their peers nationally.
Community-engaged learning and research are gaining recognition and legitimacy in higher education. The critical issue facing colleges and universities today is how do we institutionalize and sustain them as core values and practices? Having a cadre of faculty with the commitment and competencies to link their scholarship with communities is central to answering this question.
Faculty for the Engaged Campus seeks to address these persistent challenges:
- There are few professional development pathways for those who seek community-engaged careers in the academy
- Peer reviewers in a given faculty member's discipline or profession who can understand and assess the rigor, quality and impact of their CES are not readily identifiable
- There is no accepted method or vehicle for peer reviewing, publishing and disseminating products of CES that are in forms other than journal articles (e.g., technical reports, resource guides, handbooks, policy briefs, etc.)
- There are no clearly defined or accepted roles for community partners in the faculty development, review, promotion or tenure process.
Faculty for the Engaged Campus aims to achieve these outcomes over a three-year period (2007-2010):
- Twenty universities, in collaboration with their community partners, will design innovative competency-based models of CES faculty development and six will have implemented, evaluated and disseminated them
- Community-engaged faculty members will regularly submit products of CES to our online clearinghouse for peer review, publication and dissemination
- Community-engaged faculty members being considered for promotion and/or tenure, provosts, deans and department chairs will routinely consult our searchable online database for external peer reviewers
- Partnerships will be in place with national professional associations to facilitate ongoing use of and support for both the online clearinghouse and external reviewer database
- "Peer" in CES will be redefined to include community partners.
Director: Sarena Seifer, Executive Director, CCPH and Research Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Washington
Co-Directors: Lynn Blanchard, Director, Carolina Center for Public Service, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Cathy Jordan, Director, Children, Youth, and Family Consortium, University of Minnesota
Deputy Director: Piper McGinley, Senior Consultant, CCPH
Evaluator: Sherril Gelmon, Professor of Public Health, Portland State University
In January 2008, we released a Call for Applications to participate in a faculty development charrette from May 28-30, 2008 in Chapel Hill, NC. A charrette is an intensely focused multi-day session that uses a collaborative approach to create realistic and achievable designs. Charrettes have mainly been used in architecture, urban planning and community design projects. In our case, we will convene campus teams, project leadership and expert advisors to collaboratively design innovative models of CES faculty development.
Over 100 applications were received for the 20 available slots. Each application was assessed by three reviewers, with geographic and institutional diversity considered in the final selections.
Click here for a press release announcing the twenty colleges and universities that will be participating in the charrette.
Click here for a summary of reviewer comments on applications that were not selected.
Click here to read an article about the charrette
Click here for the charrette agenda, presentations and handouts.
In January 2009, we awarded grants to six universities to design, implement and evaluate innovative community-engaged faculty development programs. Each grant is for $15,000 over a two year period. The funded institutions are listed below in alphabetical order. Brief descriptions of their programs appear in the attached press release.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC
Northwestern University, Evanston
and Chicago, IL
Ohio University, Athens,
OH
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann
Arbor, MI
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,
Minneapolis, MN
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
The six institutions were among twenty that attended the May 2008 charrette to design campus-wide, competency-based models of faculty development that support community-engaged careers in the academy. Institutions participating in the charrette were invited to submit proposals to implement and evaluate their designs. Each proposal was assessed by three reviewers, including community partners.
Grantees will share progress and address challenges through conference calls and meetings, access technical assistance facilitated by the Faculty for the Engaged Campus leadership team and consultants, and participate in an evaluation of the process and impact of their programs.
One challenge for community-engaged scholars is the lack of mechanisms for peer review and dissemination of products of community-engaged scholarship that go beyond manuscripts published in journals. A team of community and academic advisors has developed such a mechanism, known as CES4Health.info. CES4Health.info will peer review and publish such products as documentaries, training manuals, policy briefs, curricula, Powerpoint presentations and a variety of other products that result from health-related community-engaged research, teaching and service. Users of CES4Health.info will be able to search the portal for products and resources using keyword searches and browsing within categories.
The inaugural phase of CES4Health.info was launched in winter 2009. This phase includes formative evaluation of the submission and review processes. A public launch of CES4Health.info is planned for fall 2009.
Interested in submitting a product for review or serving as a peer reviewer? Contact Faculty for the Engaged Campus Co-Director Cathy Jordan at cyfcdir@umn.edu for more information.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Click here for answers to frequently asked questions about the faculty development charrette component of the initiative. This document is updated periodically. If you have a question that is not answered here, please email it to fipse2@u.washington.edu.
Click here for answers to frequently asked questions about community-engaged scholarship. These were developed by the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative. If you have a question that is not answered here, please email it to ccphfipse2@mcw.edu.
Visit these CCPH webpages for related resources:
Community-Engaged
Scholarship
Community-Engaged
Scholarship Toolkit
Commission
on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions
Community-Engaged
Scholarship for Health Collaborative
Community-Engaged
Scholarship Listserv
Engaged
Institutions Initiative
You may send questions, comments, citations or full-text materials by e-mail or by mail: UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809.
Powerpoint slides and handouts from Faculty for the Engaged Campus presentations are posted on CCPH's past presentations webpage.
To receive periodic initiative updates and announcements, join the Community-Engaged Scholarship listserv. This electronic discussion group provides a venue for sharing information and resources concerning the academic review and reward system for faculty involved in community based participatory research, service-learning and other forms of community-engaged scholarship.
For additional information, please contact Piper McGinley.
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