Call for Nominations: 2017 Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award

Recognizing excellence in engaged teaching and scholarship.

Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career if not in a tenure line) each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus Compact member institution) are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good.

The recipient and finalists will be announced in early fall 2017 and will be honored at Campus Compact’s National Conference in March 2018.

In addition, the winner will receive a $2,000 award. More information about the award and application guidelines can be found here.

Nominations will be accepted here until 11:59 PM EDT on June 6, 2017.

 

Job Postings: Great positions available at Two AASCU/ADP Campuses!

Founding Executive Director, James Madison Center for Civic Engagement
James Madison University (Va.)

James Madison University (JMU) invites applications and nominations for the founding Executive Director of the university’s innovative and high profile new initiative, the James Madison Center for Civic Engagement. This position is a full-time, 12-month position with an appointment in an academic department. The Executive Director will promote civic engagement as it is envisioned by JMU (that is, we seek to “advance the legacy of James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, by preparing individuals to be active and responsible participants in a representative democracy dedicated to the common good”). The preferred starting date is July 1, 2017.

For more information about the James Madison Center for Civic Engagement, please visit the following link: http://www.jmu.edu/universitystudies/civicengagement/JM-Center-for-Civic-Engagement.docx.

To view the full posting and apply go to JobLink.jmu.edu and reference posting number 0407737.

 

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Associate or Full Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies
University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG)

The Department of Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an accomplished and visionary faculty member who is willing to serve in leadership positions within the department, and whose scholarship, teaching, and community engagement complements our undergraduate and graduate programs focused on conflict transformation to build peaceful and just social systems within interpersonal, interorganizational, and international contexts.

 

The UNCG Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) department is committed to reaching out to a broad array of individuals and disciplines to advance theory-informed practice, and practice-informed theory (i.e., praxis) to build peaceful and just communities. A key goal of this position is to continue to advance community-engaged approaches and scholarship in the teaching and research agenda of our department.

While individuals may come from existing PACS programs, we anticipate that highly qualified scholars come to peace and conflict studies work from diverse academic “homes” and scholarly traditions, including, but not limited to psychology, sociology, law, social work, political science, public administration, geography, and economics, to name a few.

As described below, we seek someone interested in taking leadership positions within the department, and who has core theoretical and practice-oriented expertise in conflict resolution and conflict transformation with particular expertise in community dialogue, conflict systems design,  community-engaged praxis, restorative justice, mediation, facilitation, and/or alternative forms of dispute resolution.

Posting Details available online at https://jobsearch.uncg.edu/postings/7752

What We’re Reading: Recognizing Engaged Scholarship in Faculty Reward Structures

VOL 27, NO 2 (2016)

RECOGNIZING ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP IN FACULTY REWARD STRUCTURES: CHALLENGES AND PROGRESS

Guest Editor:

Claire C. Cavallaro, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean
College of Education
California State University, Fullerton

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Recognizing Engaged Scholarship in Faculty Reward Structures: Challenges and Progress Claire C. Cavallaro PDF pp. 2-6

Promoting a Culture of Engaged Scholarship and Mentoring Junior Faculty in the Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Process at a ‘Teaching First’ University Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Linda S. Larrivee PDF pp. 7-18

Intense, Pervasive and Shared Faculty Dialogue: Generating Understanding and Identifying “Hotspots” in Five Days Emily Janke, Barbara Holland, Kristin Medlin PDF pp. 19-35

Engaged Scholarship: (Re) Focusing on Our Mission Lisa Kirtman, Erica Bowers, John L. Hoffman PDF pp. 36-49

Promoting Engaged Scholars: Matching Tenure Policy and Scholarly Practice Katherine Lambert-Pennington PDF pp. 50-58

Community-Engaged Faculty: A Must for Preparing Impactful Ed.D. Graduates Deborah Peterson, Jill Alexa Perry, Lina Dostilio, Debby Zambo PDF pp. 59-73

Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship: A State University System Approach Jon Saltmarsh, John Wooding PDF pp. 74-86

Incorporating Community Engagement Language into Promotion and Tenure Policies: One University’s Journey Lynn E. Pelco, Catherine Howard PDF pp. 87-98

Call for Participation: Research Study on Millennial Faculty & Civic Engagement

A faculty member at Texas A&M University-Central Texas — a fellow ADP campus — is engaged in a research project focused on Millennial Generation Faculty Members and Civic Engagement. Please read the short study description below and share with colleagues that might be interested in participating in this important effort. Thanks! — Jen

 Millennial Faculty & Civic Engagement Study

“Civically-minded” is a term often used to describe individuals from the Millennial Generation (individuals born in 1982 or later) due to their affinity for community service, social activism and involvement in nonprofit organizations. Coincidentally, the time during which those from this generation entered college represented an era during which higher education demonstrated a renewed emphasis on civic engagement efforts nationally. These activities and programs have repeatedly demonstrated positive effects on many student outcomes that prepare them for lives as engaged citizens and professionals.

It is at this point that Millennials are beginning to enter the professoriate themselves. As the sustained success of service-learning and other community engagement endeavors ultimately lies with faculty members, this study aims to investigate how generational tendencies and/or undergraduate experiences have affected currently engaged Millennial faculty members’ development.

We are seeking full-time faculty members born after 1981 who have utilized service-learning in their teaching in order to investigate: 1) their personal perceptions and motivations towards the practice, and 2) if their undergraduate experience affected their development as civically-engaged professionals.  Participants will take part in a brief individual interview and a short follow-up discussion with other participants to examine commonalities and themes. Webcams will be necessary for participation.

Interviews will begin in December 2015 and will continue through early February 2016.  All interested individuals should contact Morgan Lewing at morgan.lewing@tamuct.edu.

Dr. Morgan Lewing
Assistant Professor, College of Education
Texas A&M University-Central Texas (Killeen, TX)
254-519-8030

NERCHE’s 2015 Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty: Call for Nominations

Call for Nominations:
2015 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

2015 Lynton Award Application Instructions

Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at Merrimack College, the annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a full-time faculty member who is pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts*, and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.

Community engagement describes the collaboration between faculty and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.   —Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Lynton Award emphasizes community-engaged scholarly work across faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement (also known as outreach scholarship, public scholarship, scholarship for the common good, community-based scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship) represents an integrated view of faculty roles in which teaching, research/creative activity, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly work tied to a faculty member’s expertise, is of benefit to the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects the mission of the institution. In addition, NERCHE and CED conceptualize scholarly engagement in terms of social justice in a diverse democracy. 

This year’s award will be presented at the 21^st Annual Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), “A Love of Place: The Metropolitan Advantage,” which will be held from October 11-13, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska.  CUMU is a co-sponsor of the Award.

The 2015 award recipient will also be honored at the annual Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of Engagement, which will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2015, at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  For information and updates about this event, please visit NERCHE’s website: http://www.nerche.org.

Award Eligibility:

• Only full-time faculty from U.S. public and private not-for-profit colleges and universities are eligible for the Award.
• A faculty member who submits tenure materials for review prior to the Lynton Award application deadline is not eligible to apply for the Award.

Lynton Award Nominations:

• Nominations can be made by academic colleagues, administrators, students, and community partners.  Each nominator should aim to present a comprehensive account of the nominee’s community-engaged teaching, research, and service. To this end, the application provides for the inclusion of the names and affiliations of additional nominators (see Section Three of this document). Further, endorsements from individuals familiar with one or more aspects of the nominee’s work can be included in the supporting documentation (see Section I.D.).
• In cases in which multiple individuals submit a single application for the nomination of a faculty member, one person should be designated as the primary nominator responsible for completing and submitting the application. Additional nominators can be noted in the appropriate section of the application.
• More than one faculty member from a single college or university may be nominated. Please complete separate applications for each nominee.

Nominators will submit nominations via an online application.  To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions.

Application deadline: Friday, May 15, 2015, at 5 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Frequently asked questions about the Lynton Award are answered here. If you have other questions, please contact the Lynton Award Coordinator, Elaine Ward, at Merrimack College’s School of Education and Social Policy by email at lyntonaward@merrimack.edu (subject line: “Lynton Award Help”) or by phone at (978) 837-4676.

To learn more about the Lynton Award, click here.

* Award sponsors understand that there may be slight variations in contract systems specific to certain institutions; therefore, we encourage applicants who have questions about eligibility to contact us at warde@merrimack.edu.