Guidelines for the Scholarship of Engagement
The following guidelines were developed to serve as a supplemental resource for university faculty who conduct engagement activities through their respective department, center, institute, college, and/or unit at the university. These guidelines will aid faculty in reporting their engaged teaching, research, and service scholarship efforts through planned community-engaged programs for adult and youth audiences.
These guidelines will also aid the faculty in documenting the scholarship of engagement in their annual faculty evaluations, promotion and tenure applications, award/recognition applications, professional vitas, featured publications, unit reports, media announcements, etc. It will also support Department and Center Heads in conducting annual faculty evaluations and reviewing promotion and tenure applications. The objectives of this document are to:
- Explain the Land-Grant university’s mission regarding engagement in identifying adult and youth learners’ needs and meeting those needs through community-engaged teaching, scholarship, and service.
- Define and support the faculty scholarship of engagement in the context of teaching by providing voluntary, nonformal instruction to adult and youth audiences.
- Support the work of department/school, college, and university promotion and tenure committees tasked with evaluating faculty in engaged research and service.