Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University, by Julie Ellison and Timothy K. Eatman, is organized around the idea of a continuum of knowledge and knowledge-making practices. The logic of the continuum organizes four domains, with recommendations pertaining to each of them:
- a continuum of scholarship gives public engagement full and equal standing;
- a continuum of scholarly and creative artifacts includes those produced about, for, and with specific publics and communities;
- a continuum of professional choices for faculty enables them to map pathways to public creative and scholarly work; and
- a continuum of actions aimed at creating a more flexible framework for valuing and evaluating academic public engagement.
Summary Recommendations
- Define public scholarly and creative work.
- Develop policy based on a continuum of scholarship.
- Recognize the excellence of work that connects domains of knowledge.
- Expand what counts.
- Document what counts.
- Present what counts: use portfolios.
- Expand who counts: Broaden the community of peer review.
- Support publicly engaged graduate students and junior faculty.
- Build in flexibility at the point of hire.
- Promote public scholars to full professor.
- Organize the department for policy change.
- Take this report home and use it to start something.
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Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University
