Provost’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute for UTEP Faculty
The Provost’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, offered by the Office of the Provost through the Center for Community Engagement and its Faculty Fellows.
Through the Institute, participants are guided through a series of sessions focused on building knowledge, capacity, skills and competencies around seven community-engaged scholarship themes:
· Theoretical background and knowledge
· Community knowledge and interaction
· Theory to practice
· Scholarship integration
· Faculty mentorship
· Assessment
· Dissemination and communication
For detailed competencies and skills for each theme, see CES Competencies
Purpose:
The purpose of the institute is to build common knowledge base, understanding and practices around community engaged scholarship principles that enhance and seek to integrate research, teaching and service while serving our students, community and achieving our institutional goals.
Community engaged scholarship is the exchange of knowledge, information and expertise between community representatives and academics aimed at solving social problems. It is interdisciplinary and based on the principles of reciprocity and mutually beneficial and co-equal partnerships.
The institute is targeted for faculty members who wish to expand their knowledge and skills around community engaged scholarship principles. Please be sure to review all competencies associated with the institute to gauge both interest and alignment in personal and career goals.
In addition to an interest in the content, participants who wish to do the following should participate:
· Strengthen collegial interdisciplinary partnerships with other faculty
· Mentor and be mentored by other faculty members who bring a strength to the community of engaged scholars
· Strengthen their ability to integrate their scholarship and help others do the same
· Become a better reviewer of community engaged scholarship
· Develop stronger ties or new partnerships with community organizations
All levels of experience are encouraged and welcome in an effort to truly build a community of engaged scholars who share knowledge and experience.
Expectations
Participants are expected to:
· Participate in all sessions
· Engage in conversations and dialogue during the sessions
· Complete readings associated with the institute
· Participate in self-assessment exercises
· Establish personally specific outcome goal(s) for the institute
· Co-teach and share knowledge and expertise around individually strong or achieved competencies
Note:
For AY 19-20, institute sessions will be facilitated through the Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) series in partnership with the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development. To view upcoming sessions, visit UTEP’s Campus Edge platform and view CES category.
CES COMPETENCIES
Adapted from Blanchard, L.W. Hanssmann, C., Strauss, R.P., Belliard J., Krichbaum, C., Waters, E., and Seifer, S. (2009). Models for Faculty Development: What Does It Take to be a Community-Engaged!Scholar? Metropolitan Universities 20 (August 2009): 47-65.
Provost’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute for UTEP Faculty COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THEMES
Theoretical background and knowledge
• Community engaged scholarship concepts and literature and history of CES
• Knowledge about theory and practice of CES
Community knowledge and Partnership-building
• Factors that contribute to community issues
• Skills and commitment to foster community and social change
• Skills to work effectively and efficiently with diverse communities
• Skills to negotiate community and university partnerships (partnership development and
agreement formats)
• Skills to build capacity in the community for CES
• Skills to work with communities using CES process and results for policy change
Practice (from Theory)
• Skills to apply CES theory into practice (engagement models)
• Understanding of how CES can affect policy
• Skills to write grants and seek funding that use CES principles and approaches
Integration of scholarship
• Skills to write peer-reviewed articles that use CES processes and outcomes
• Skills to balance academic portfolio with using CES principles of engagement (to be successful in
academic environment)
• Skills to effectively describe scholarly components of CES to include in portfolio.
Faculty mentorship
• Skills to build capacity among other faculty
• Skills to mentor students and junior faculty to create and develop a portfolio based in CES
principals
Assessment
• Knowledge about how to assess CES outcomes and quality
• Ability to apply CES to assess and measure benchmarks, outcomes, and quality of work
• Skills to use CES principles to effectively serve on an RPT committee
Dissemination and Communication
• Skills to develop other forms of dissemination that are relevant
• Competencies to communicate the work and impact of community engaged scholarship to the
press, media, pubic and decision makers