Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
Choosing how to recognize community-engaged scholarship in promotion and tenure policies so that it is assessed accurately and fairly remains a relatively new and ongoing challenge for institutions of higher education. This case study examines how one U.S. research university integrated recognition of community-engaged scholarship across all levels of policy, including university, unit, and department. The terms used within and across policies reveal that while some terms were perpetuated across policies, many more terms proliferated across policies. Using organizational change and signaling theories, as well as the Democratic Civic Engagement Framework, analysis raises questions and insights regarding the use of both specificity and ambiguity when choosing and defining terms, and the use of terms across faculty roles of teaching, research/creative activity, and service to signal and address legitimacy of community-engaged scholarship within a larger context of institutional values.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.2537
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Repository Citation
Jenkins, Isabelle; Janke, Emily; Saltmarsh, John; and Quan, Melissa, "Persistence and Proliferation: Integrating Community-Engaged Scholarship into 59 Departments, 7 Units, and 1 University Academic Promotion and Tenure Policies" (2023). Scholarship and Professional Writing from the J.D. Power Center and Donelan Office. 7.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/claw_fac_scholarship/7
Comments
This article was originally published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Citation:
Janke, E., Jenkins, I., Quan, M. & Saltmarsh, J., (2023) “Persistence and Proliferation: Integrating Community-Engaged Scholarship into 59 Departments, 7 Units, and 1 University Academic Promotion and Tenure Policies”, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 29(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.2537