Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES)

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Faculty Engaged Scholarship: Setting Standards and Building Conceptual Clarity

Authors: Lynn Blanchard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Andrew Furco, University of Minnesota

Image of ACES white paper entitled "Faculty Engaged Scholarship: Setting Standards and Building Conceptual Clarity," authored by members Lynn Blanchard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Andrew Furco, University of MinnesotaThe authors provide an examination of how engaged scholarship is presented in promotion and tenure guidelines using case studies from two public research universities in the United States. From the findings of these case studies, they identify several ways in which academic disciplines frame engaged scholarship. Blanchard and Furco then apply these disciplinary frames to establish a broader framework designed to build greater conceptual clarity regarding the different approaches and pathways that disciplines take to engaged scholarship. They conclude the report with a look to the future in our efforts to set standards and build greater conceptual clarity of engaged scholarship.

While the work is bound within the context of these two institutions, the report offers implications for broader conversations of engaged scholarship and be useful to other types of institutions in the United States and abroad.

Download the report at: http://doi.org/10.17615/0xj1-c495

ISBN: 978-0-578-90555-6

Publication date: January 2021

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