Events and Announcements

Spring 2012

The Certificate in Public Scholarship has completed its first Program Assessment, and generated the following recommendations:

Coursework

• Make visible to students Directed Research/Independent Study course options via web and quarterly meetings.
• Suggest Directed Research/Independent Study and Academic Internships as models whereby fellows may earn credit in pursuit of new and ongoing service and engagement activities.
• Incentivize the development and integration of public scholarship coursework opportunities through course development grants to CPS faculty.

Community Development and Organizing

• Institute quarterly fellows’ meetings.  These are to be coordinated with the Fall and Spring steering committee meetings. (Schedule is now set as the first Mondays of Finals Week, with Steering Committee meetings the Friday of Finals Week in Fall and Spring.)  Graduate representatives have the responsibility of organizing the agenda for quarterly meetings with the fellows and the program directors, and of reporting out of meetings to the steering committee.
• Suggest that from this basic communication and organization structure, fellows have options and resources for self-organized activities and structures, such as study groups, capstone development groups, etc. These include Simpson Center space scheduling privileges, a communication network, and graduate interest group (GIG) funding, if pursued.

Advising

• In recruitment, make plain the self-directed nature of the program.  Fellows participating in the information sessions did so this year.
• Surface the results of the survey to fellows and advisors, to norm expectations around what is already happening in the program: advising meetings two-three times per year.  Clarify that fellows are responsible for initiating meetings or exchanges with their advisors; advisors for responding to requests.
• Use the quarterly meetings to remind fellows to (1) update their portfolio workspaces, and (2) check in with portfolio advisors.
• Continue to hold yearly portfolio advisor meetings and portfolio presentations to develop program-wide understandings of advising that move through the portfolio-building practices of documenting and representing relevant work.

Read the full report and survey results at: https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/csp-hum-594-central-resouce-site/home/hum-594-resources-and-archive.

Fall 2011

Friday, December 2, 3:00 pm, Communications 202. Portfolio Presentation and Party! Join the 2011 fellows for a screening and discussion of their first CPS portfolios.

Scholarship as Public Practice: A Colloquia Series

What is public scholarship? Who are its publics and audiences? What kinds of artifacts does it yield? What claims can be made about it?

This colloquia series seeks to deepen and enlarge crossdisciplinary conversations at the UW about scholarship as a public practice.  The series builds on the portfolio-based curriculum that informs the Certificate in Public Scholarship.  It models a method for articulating the significance of publicly-engaged work for academic and non-academic audiences.

All sessions at 3:30 pm in Communications 202. (Receptions follow).

• Friday, October 7: Artifacts and Evidence, with Gillian Harkins (English), Sara Breslow (Environmental Anthropology), Michelle Habell-Pallan (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies)
• Friday, October 14: Publics and Audiences, with Sharon Daniel (Film and Media, University of California, Santa Cruz), Ralina Joesph (Communication), and Katharyne Mitchell (Geography)
• Friday, October 28: Arguments and Claims, with Candice Rai (English), Chandan Reddy (English), and Amanda Swarr (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies)

For more information about the Scholarship as Public Practice colloquia series, contact Miriam Bartha (mbartha@uw.edu)  or Bruce Burgett (burgett@uw.edu), co-directors of the Certificate.