Faculty Seminar: Community-Engaged Scholarship

(CES)

Engaging with the Community, Creating Scholarly Products

Steans CenterBeck Research Initiative

05.09.13

Agenda• About this Faculty Seminar Series• About Community-Engaged Scholarship• From Service-Learning Teaching to Community-

Engaged Scholarship• Funding Opportunities• Available Resources• Presentations

Miles HarveyNaomi Steinberg

• Discussion• Refreshments/Shmoozing

Purposes of This Faculty Seminar Series

• Build faculty capacity to undertake community-engaged scholarship

• Showcase DePaul faculty involved with community-engaged scholarship

• Co-Sponsored by:– Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning– Beck Research Initiative

Distinctions: (1) Traditional vs. Community-Engaged Faculty Work

(2) Community-Engaged Work vs. Community-Engaged Scholarship

Faculty RoleTraditional Interpretation

Community EngagementIntepretation

Community-Engaged Scholarship

Teaching Lecturing, Seminars Teaching a Service-Learning Course

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Research Research on ………. Research with (not on) a Community

A Scholarly Product Deriving from the Research with the Community

ServiceService to UniversityService to DisciplineCommunity Service

Professional ServiceA Scholarly Product Deriving from the Professional Service

Community-Engaged ScholarshipThree Essential Criteria

Draws on Faculty Member’s Expertise

About Community-Engaged ScholarshipCES

one part student or faculty community engagement+ one part faculty scholarship derived therefrom------------------------------------------------------- community-engaged scholarship

Select Manifestations of CES– Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)– Research on service-learning (stu, fac, comm)– Scholarship of engagement (CBR, Public Scholarship)– Scholarship on engagement

1. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

There’s a whole literature on this subject.

In a nutshell, SoTL covers innovative teaching and studying (some aspect or model of) teaching

Potential article topics:– a case study of service-learning teaching– a new service-learning model within a discipline– an interdisciplinary model– a reflection innovation– a self-journey (auto-ethnography)

1. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL):Sample Article Titles

• Critical Community Service Learning: Combining Critical Classroom Pedagogy with Activist Community Placements

• Points of Discomfort: Reflections on Power and Partnerships in International Service Learning

• Student Perceptions of Community-based Research Partners and the Politics of Knowledge

• Disrupting Borders: A Case Study in Engaged Scholarship

What might be a focus of an article that you might write that relates directly to teaching a service-learning course and would qualify as an example of the scholarship of teaching and learning?

2. Research on Service-Learning: Possible Directions

RESEARCH ON SERVICE-LEARNING

FACULTYMotivation

Impediments

STUDENTSAcademic

CivicMulticultural

COMMUNITIESImpacts

Partnerships

INSTITUTIONS

SERVICE-LEARNING

DISCIPLINESComparing how

different disciplines think about community

involvement

2. Research on Service-Learning:Sample Article Titles

• College Students’ Negotiation of Privilege in a Community-Based Violence Prevention Project

• Service-Learning and Critical Emotion Studies: On the Perils of Empathy and the Politics of Compassion

• Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready?

• Negotiating Border Crossing: Influences of Social Identity on Service-Learning Outcomes

• University Students’ Views of a Public Service Graduation Requirement• Stability and Change in the Development of College Students’ Civic

Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skill

• What might be a focus of an article that you might write that addresses some aspect of research on service-learning?

3. Scholarship of Engagement

Where a faculty member is invited to become involved in the community in a way that involves and benefits the community, taps the faculty member’s expertise, and leads to a scholarly product derived from the community experience

Two popular forms of scholarship of engagement are: (a) community-based research – where a faculty member co-develops a research project that involves the community in the shaping of it, that is intended to benefit the community, and that also benefits the faculty member’s scholarship; and(b) public scholarship (Imagining America) – where a (humanities, art, or design) faculty member co-develops a product that contributes to the public good and yields artifacts of public and intellectual value.

Scholarship of EngagementSample Article Titles

• Principles of Best Practice for Community-Based Research

• A Case Study of a Community-Based Participatory Evaluation Research Project

3. Scholarship of Engagement:Example

A business professor proficient in for-profit strategic planning is invited to work with a local nonprofit on their strategic plan (Professional Service). From the experience, she writes an article or a book about what does/doesn’t apply from for-profit strategic planning to nonprofit strategic planning.

Describe a way you might become involved in the community such that it involves and benefits the community, taps your area of expertise, and culminates in a scholarly product or public artifact?

4. Scholarship on Engagement

The study of some facet of campus-community engagement.

4. Scholarship on Engagement:Sample Article Titles

• Institutionalizing Faculty Engagement at Research Universities: A Case Study

• What influences Long-Term Service-Learning Sustainability: Lessons from a Study of Early Adopters

• The Role of Incentives in Attracting Faculty to Engaged Scholarship

• Investigating Faculty Learning in the Context of Community-Engaged Scholarship

• Place-Building Theory: A Framework for Assessing, Advancing, and Critically Examining Community Engagement in Higher Education

• Human Subjects Protection: A Source for Ethical Service-Learning Practice

• University Leaders’ Use of Episodic Power to Support Faculty Community Engagement

• Why the Civic Engagement Movement Cannot Achieve Democratic and Justice Aims

What would be a topic you might consider investigating in a scholarly way that pertains to some facet of campus-community engagement?

Service-Learning Teaching as a Springboard for

Four Community-Engaged Scholarship Manifestations

Teaching a Service-Learning Course

Scholarship of Teaching

and Learning (SoTL)

Research on Service-Learning

Scholarship of Engagement

Scholarship on Engagement

Funding Opportunities for CES

• Beck Research Initiative Community-Based Research Fellowship

• Steans Center Community-Based Research Fellowship

• Public Service Council• Quality of Instruction Council

DePaul ResourcesJeff HowardDirector of Faculty Development, Steans CenterEditor, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (http://ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/)Consultation around service-learningConsultation around community-engaged scholarship

Howard RosingExecutive Director, Steans CenterConsultation around service-learning and community-based research

Beth CatlettChair and Associate Professor, Women & Gender StudiesDirector, Beck Research InitiativeConsultation around integrating community-based research into academic courses

Marisol MoralesAssociate Director, Steans CenterConsultation around service-learning, potential community partners

Resources on Community-Engaged Scholarship

International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (www.researchslce.org) 2013 Conference in Omaha, NE (November 6-8)

National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement Websitewww.scholarshipofengagement.org

“New Times Demand New Scholarship”(www.compact.org/initiatives/research_universities/

Community Engaged Scholarship ToolkitCommunity-Campus Partnership for Healthwww.communityengagedscholarship.info/ www.ces4health.org

Scholarship of Engagement ToolkitCampus Compact/TRUCEN (Stanton & Howard)www.compact.org/initiatives/civic-engagement-at-research-universities/trucen-overview/

Imagining America (esp. the tenure team initiative/report)http://www.imaginingamerica.org/

Engaged Scholarship: A Resource Guide (Comm. on Institutional Cooperation)http://www.research2.ecu.edu/Documents/Carnegie/Engagement%20Scholarship.pdf

Journals Devoted to Community-Engaged Scholarship

• Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (www.ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/) • Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/) • Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (http://www.jces.ua.edu/) • Reflections (http://reflectionsjournal.net/) • Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

(http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ijcre) • International Journal for Service-Learning in Engineering: Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship

(www.ijsle.org) • Partnership Perspectives (CCPH; http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/PP.html)• Journal for Civic Commitment (http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/Journal/) • Journal for Research on Service-Learning and Teacher Education (http://educationprogram.duke.edu/ICSLTE) • Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education (jpshe.missouristate.edu)• International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change • (www.columbiasc.edu/ServiceLearningLeadershipSocialChange/)• Public: A Journal of Imagining America (www.imaginingamerica.org) • International Journal of Research on Community Engagement and Service-Learning

(http://journals.sfu.ca/iarslce/index.php/journal/index)

• Comprehensive list of journals publishing community engaged scholarship: www.compact.org/resources/service-learning_resources/

• Journals often publishing community engaged scholarship:Metropolitan Universities (http://www.cumuonline.org/muj.aspx) Academic Exchange Quarterly (http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/)

Presentations

Miles HarveyAssistant ProfessorEnglish

Naomi SteinbergAssociate ProfessorReligious Studies

Discussion

Refreshments/Schmoozing