Incorporating Community-Engaged Scholarship into Tenure and Promotion: A Guide for Faculty Candidates and Personnel Reviewers

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

Recently ASA Council adopted guidelines for the incorporation of community-engaged scholarship in tenure and review proceedings. ASA’s Sociology Action Network (SAN) wrote and proposed these guidelines and produced an associated toolkit for faculty candidates, department personnel committees and external reviewers. The guidelines and toolkit are published on the ASA’s website. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce and review how to use the guidelines and toolkit developed by the Sociology Action Network.
This workshop is being proposed by Mark Warren, a SAN board member, at the request of the SAN board as a way to disseminate the guidelines offered online, to share best practices, to discuss some of the challenges of incorporating community-engaged scholarship in tenure and promotion, and to answer questions from tenure & promotion candidates and personnel reviewers.
The workshop will also offer expert advice 1) to faculty candidates from presenters who have used the toolkit in their tenure and promotion application and 2) to faculty involved in reviewing such candidates from presenters who have done so from the reviewer perspective.
This workshop contributes to the conference theme “Disrupting the status quo: Putting sociology to work for a more equitable society.” It discusses institutional initiatives to support faculty who are conducting their research in ways that directly contribute to change efforts for equity and social justice.
Learning objectives: Participants will learn valuable information and gain resources for how to prepare for tenure and promotion and how to review tenure and promotion cases involving community engaged scholarship.
Agenda: Panel presentation followed by small group discussion led by panelists and report back
Panelists include SAN authors of the guidelines/toolkit, community-engaged faculty who used the guidelines for their recent T&P and faculty who served as personnel reviewers for faculty using CES.

Sub Unit

• Workshops / Professional Development Workshop

Presenters

• Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University-College Station

• Amy Marie Argenal, University of California-Santa Cruz

• Hillary Angelo, University of California-Santa Cruz

Session Organizer

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston