Community-Engaged, Digital, & Public Scholarship

Community-Engaged Scholarship

Definitions and Perspectives

“I define engaged scholarship as when faculty engage their expertise with those of community stakeholders to co-create knowledge that serves the public good. Examples of such projects might include new training for health professionals on the role of implicit bias in medical diagnosis, a newly designed playground for a school with children with physical disabilities or an oral history project exploring the effect of DACA on college students” (O’Meara, Accurately Assessing Engaged Scholarship, Inside Higher Ed, 2018).

• The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship
• Faculty Engaged Scholarship. Setting Standards and Building Conceptual Clarity (Lynn Blanchard and Andrew Furco, 2021, The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship)
• Walking the Talk: Towards a Value-Aligned Academics (A HuMetrics Initiative)
• Boyer’s Expanded definitions of scholarship, the Standards for Assessing Scholarship, and the Elusiveness of the Scholarship of Teaching (Charles Glassick, 2000)
• da Cruz, C.G. (2018). Community-Engaged Scholarship: Toward a Shared Understanding of Practice. The Review of Higher Education 41(2), 147-167. doi:10.1353/rhe.2018.0000.
• A Framework for Community-Engaged Scholarship (Connecticut Campus Compact)
• Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit (University of South Florida)
• The Effects of Community Engaged Scholarship and Civic Engagement on Higher Education: What We Know and Questions that Remain (AAC&U)
• University-Community Research Partnerships (The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven)
• Research University Civic Engagement Network (Campus Compact)

Criteria for Evaluation

• Tenure and Promotion for Engaged Scholarship – A Repository (Campus Compact)
• Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship in Language and Literature Programs (Modern Languages Association, 2022)
• Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian (American Historical Association)

Support for CES at Other Colleges and Universities

• Brown University
• Emerson College’s Communication Studies department (criteria for evaluating community-based scholarship listed toward the end of page)
• Michigan State University
• UCLA
• The University of Minnesota
  • Statement of support for CES
  • Preparing to Review the Community-engaged Scholar in the Social and Physical Sciences
  • Assessment of community engaged scholarship
  • Review Committee on Community-Engaged Scholarship
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Virginia Commonwealth University

Digital Scholarship

“The use of digital tools, instructional design, library science, and research methods to critically investigate and interpret ideas, and to create, curate, or publish scholarly products and unique learning experiences” (Rowan University)

• Defining Digital Scholarship  (Rowan University)
• Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media (Modern Language Association)
• Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians (American Historical Association)
• Digital Humanities (DH) in Tenure and Promotion (University of Florida)
• Promotion & Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities (Center for Digital Research @ University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
• Guidelines for Assessment of Digital Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion (The Association for Computers and the Humanities)

See also DLA@Mac

Public Scholarship

“An intellectually and methodologically rigorous endeavor that is responsive to public audiences and public peer review. Public scholarship is scholarly work that advances one or more academic disciplines by emphasizing the co-production of knowledge with community stakeholders” (from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)

• Report on Evaluating Public Communication in Tenure and Promotion (American Sociological Association)
• AAA Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion Review: Communicating Public Scholarship in Anthropology (American Anthropological Association)
• Public Scholarship @ IUPUI
• Public Humanities (ADE Bulletin 159, 2022, Modern Languages Association Academic Program Services)
• Critical Intersections: Public Scholars Creating Culture, Catalyzing Change (Imagining America, 2022)

Summary document of helpful definitions and distinctions related to community-engaged scholarship and other traditionally under-represented forms of scholarship (prepared by FPC in Fall, 2022)