{"id":9204,"date":"2017-05-02T09:05:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:05:42","slug":"valuing-public-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2017\/05\/02\/valuing-public-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuing public scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Anthropological Association’s publication<\/a> yesterday of guidelines on public scholarship<\/a> marks a significant advance in the recognition of public scholarship within academe.<\/p>\n

Anthropology may have good reasons to be in the forefront with this, but it is not the only field in which public scholarship and community engagement are valued and recognized. Numerous\u00a0efforts have been made toward this end, particularly in the field of community engaged research, which is arguably more advanced in gaining recognition in the tenure and promotion process than the kinds of public outreach referred to in the AAA’s guidelines.<\/p>\n

Some useful resources for publicly engaged scholars include the Imagining America<\/a> Tenure Team Initiative<\/a>‘s report on “Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University — A Resources on Promotion and Tenure in the Atts, Humanities, and Design”\u00a0(Ellison & Eatman, 2008<\/a>), O’Meara, Eatman, & Petersen’s “Advancing Engaged Scholarship<\/a>\u00a0in Promotion & Tenure: A Roadmap and Call for Reform,” Whitmer et al’s 2010 article “The Engaged University<\/a>” (published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment<\/em>), Fitzgerald et al’s Handbook of Engaged Scholarship<\/a>, Nancy Franz’s excellent “Tips” paper<\/a> for engaged scholars, NDHE’s special issue<\/a> on community engagement in higher education, and Hutchinson’s “Outside the Margins<\/a>: Promotion and Tenure with a Public Scholarship Platform.”<\/p>\n

Within environmental scholarship, the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences journal JESS<\/a> has published some useful articles, including\u00a0Clark et al’s “Professional development of interdisciplinary environmental scholars<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

For the record, here’s the definition of scholarship that my own Environmental Studies program approved a few years ago for internal purposes:<\/p>\n

\u201cScholarship\u201d is defined inclusively, building on the work of Boyer and others,[1]<\/a> as encompassing five domains of scholarly work:<\/p>\n