The Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship

Tenure Team Initiative Report is now available.
Click here to view the report.To go to the Online Resources and Policy Documents page click here.

Valuing Public Scholarship in the Cultural Disciplines
The Tenure Team Initiative (TTI) is one of the consortium's most important initiatives to date, and seeks to articulate and support the adventurous work of publicly engaged scholars and artists.

Led by National Co-chairs, Nancy Cantor (Chancellor and President of Syracuse University) and Steven D. Lavine (President of the California Institute of the Arts), team members seek to develop a broad understanding of the university’s public mission and its impact on changing scholarly and creative practices in the cultural disciplines. The group will craft appropriate evaluation criteria to serve as models for faculty and administrators seeking to more fully support public scholarship at their institutions. The Knowledge Base, accessible below, is a collection of research and policy papers and other resources. It is the first document to be released by the Tenure Team.

The Knowledge Base
As the first project of the Tenure Team Initiative, a comprehensive and freely accessible resource for faculty and administrators interested in supporting public scholarship at the university has been developed. The TTI Knowledge Base may be viewed online here, or as a PDF file for off-line review or printing.

The TTI Online Survey (Closed)
The TTI Online Survey provides survey participants the opportunity to share their collective knowledge with other publicly engaged scholars and contribute to the work of the Tenure Team. Many thanks to those who participated in this survey.

 

TTI News
IA Research Director Timothy K. Eatman's article, "Engaged Scholarship and Faculty Rewards: A National Conversation," appeared in the AACU's Diversity & Democracy Winter 2009 issue. Read the article here. Download the entire issue here.


Related Links

Tenure Team Members
Consulting Scholars & Artists

TTI Knowledge Base (pdf)
TTI Survey (closed)
TTI Consent Form (pdf)

TTI Background Study (pdf)
TTI Prospectus
TTI Press Release (pdf)

TTI National Announcement
by Nancy Cantor

TTI Initiative Report (pdf)

Online Resources
and Policy Documents