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How Does Engaged Scholarship Compare with Traditional (Discovery) Scholarship?
Bowen, S. J., & Graham, I. D. (2012). From knowledge translation to engaged scholarship: Promoting research relevance and utilization. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 94(1, Supplement 1), S3-S8. http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2812%2900922-7/abstract To date, most efforts to translate research into health care practice have had only modest success. In response to this, the authors summarize what is known about moving knowledge into action, and the implications for rehabilitation medicine. There is increasing evidence that simple knowledge transfer alone is rarely effective. Instead, if research is to be used, it must answer important questions of concern to knowledge users, and it must be…
What Is Engaged Scholarship?
Academic Affairs Committee of the Syracuse University Senate. (2007). Learning about scholarship in action in concept and practice: A white paper. In an address to the campus at the end of her inaugural year (April, 2005), Chancellor Nancy Cantor announced her vision of Syracuse University as a Creative Campus whose faculty and students would be deeply engaged with the world, interacting with local and global communities in productive relationships and activities that she named “scholarship in action.” Recognizing the difficulty of fitting such public or community-engaged scholarship into the traditional framework for defining and evaluating faculty work, she called on…
Section C: Resources for Engaged Scholarship at Research Universities
1. Original Essays on Engaged Scholarship Written for this Toolkit 2. Journals That Focus on Engaged Scholarship 3. National and International Resources for Promoting and/or Carrying Out Community Engaged Research in a Research University Context 4. Annotated Bibliographies (Back to Table of Contents) 1. Original Essays on Engaged Scholarship Written for this Toolkit Cooper, D. (2009). The university in national development: The role of use-inspired research. Proposed comparative case studies of community-engaged research. dcooper-toolkitfeb09.pdf This essay, written by a University of Cape Town professor of sociology, summarizes his community-engaged research concerns and activities, and proposes an investigation and theorization of how universities…
Section B: Engaged Scholarship and Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT)
1. Rationales for Giving Engaged Scholarship Standing in Research University RPT Processes 2. Policies for Encouraging and Assessing Engaged Scholarship in RPT Processes 3. Evaluation Criteria for Assessing Engaged Scholarship in RPT Processes 4. Demonstrating Quality and Impacts of Engaged Scholarship 5. Tenure and Promotion Portfolio Exemplars (Back to table of contents) 1. Rationales for Giving Engaged Scholarship Standing in Research University RPT Processes Ellison, J & Eatman, T. (2008). Scholarship in public: Knowledge creation and tenure policy in the engaged university, Imagining America, Syracuse University. http://imaginingamerica.org/TTI/TTI.html In this comprehensive report Imagining America’s Tenure Team discusses and recommends rationales, policies, and…