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Promotion & Tenure Webinar Series

 

Overview

In 2023 & 2024, NCCE partnered with LEAD California and Collaboratory to design and facilitate a webinar series highlighting strategies and best practices for recognizing community engaged teaching and scholarship in promotion and tenure processes. 

Many institutions know promotion and tenure policies need to be revised and evaluative metrics need to be created to better recognize, reward, and retain publicly engaged faculty.  But oftentimes they are hit with “analysis paralysis”; the details of where or how to start can be overwhelming.  Focused on the big-picture of navigating institutional change, this panel shared insights from three scholars who have helped their institutions revise both formal and informal promotion and tenure processes, and will offer insights for collective movement. 

Panelists:

  • Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University
  • Emily Janke, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, UNC Greensboro
  • David Donahue, Professor of Education, University of San Francisco
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This session involved as detailed discussion about advancing efforts to more effectively integrate community engagement in your institution’s promotion and tenure structures, processes, and procedures. Dr. Emily Janke shared in-depth insights and learnings from the past 15 years about how the University of North Carolina Greensboro has tackled promotion and tenure reform – the successes, the challenges, and what matters most when working to advance institutional change.  Dr. Janke outlined the concrete steps UNCG has taken to bolster campus support for and understanding of valuing community engagement within promotion and tenure.

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This session explored findings from a white paper that scanned promising reforms to faculty reward systems to recognize a wider range of scholarly contributions in promotion and tenure decisions. The project was commissioned by participants in the Transforming Evidence Funders Network (TEFN), facilitated by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

In this session, co-authors Emily Ozer, Jennifer Renick, Bruce Jentleson, and Bemmy Maharramli will shared findings from the project, including recommendations for funders, who are increasingly pursuing investments in the structures, cultures, and conditions that enable more societally-impactful research. Benjamin Olneck-Brown discussed TEFN’s interest in supporting coordination among funders, university leaders, and other partners to build on the substantial momentum outlined in the white paper and catalyze innovations that lead to more dynamic, equitable, and impactful research systems.

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Three experienced faculty, administrators, and researchers shared their strategic approaches to influence, integrate, and transform promotion and tenure guidelines and policies at the departmental and institutional levels. Panelists shared their reflections, research analyses, cautions, and successful strategies for achieving transformational change in promotion and tenure policies for community-engaged teaching and scholarship. 

Panelists:

  • David Donahue, University of San Francisco
  • Jennifer Yee, California State University Fullerton
  • Andy Furco, University of Minnesota
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