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Strengthening Your Engagement Dossier

Nancy Franz Director , ISU Extension and Outreach Professional Development. Strengthening Your Engagement Dossier. Welcome. Nancy’s engagement journey 32 years with Cooperative Extension in Wisconsin, New York, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Iowa Many positions and departments

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Strengthening Your Engagement Dossier

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  1. Nancy Franz Director , ISU Extension and Outreach Professional Development Strengthening Your Engagement Dossier

  2. Welcome Nancy’s engagement journey • 32 years with Cooperative Extension in Wisconsin, New York, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Iowa • Many positions and departments • Three times up for tenure/promotion • Help many others up for tenure/promotion • Chair of P&T committee and member at all levels • External dossier reviewer 3-5 annually • Silent sports, reading, gardening, dark chocolate

  3. At Your Table • Your name • Position • Institution • Tenure/promotion journey

  4. Overview • Engaged scholarship • Faculty voices on engagement and engaged scholarship • Engaged scholarship P&T resources • Documentation of engagement in the academic dossier • Best practices list • Other good engagement stuff

  5. Why an Engaged Dossier? • Enhance research • Enhance teaching • Student growth and development • Scholar growth and development • Address social, economic, and environmental issues • Make a difference in the world

  6. Approaches to Engagement and Scholarship SCHOLARSHIP LOW HIGH • Engagement • Mutual benefit • Exchange knowledge/resources • Reciprocal partnership Engaged Scholarship Principles of engagement + Principles of scholarship ENGAGEMENT HIGH • Service • One way/expert presentation to groups • Internal committees • Professional associations • Scholarship • Original intellectual work • Communicated • Validated by peers LOW Dr. Nancy Franz 2009

  7. Internal and External Factors Research Develop knowledge Disseminating knowledge Discover knowledge Teaching Academia community legacy that grows the field Condition Change Learning change Behavior change Outreach Engagement Assumptions Figure 1. Franz Engaged Scholarship Model

  8. Faculty Voices on Engagement and Engaged Scholarship At your table, review the research report about engagement at Virginia Tech • What surprised you • What insights do you see for P&T • What messages do you see from the faculty • What other data do you find interesting

  9. Engagement P&T Resources • Making Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach (1999) Driscoll and Lynton • Uniscope – Penn State • Journal of Extension (2008, 46(4), O’Neill) • New Directions for Evaluation (2008, #118, Chapter 1, Jordan, Hage, Mote) • Scholarship Assessed (1997, Glassick et al) • The Disciplines Speak (1995, Diamond & Adam)

  10. Engagement P&T Resources • New Directions for Institutional Research (2002, #114, Colbeck) • Community Engaged Scholarship (2005, Calleson et al.) • Higher Education Exchange (2006, Barker) • Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement • Community Campus Partnership for Health www.communityengagedscholarship.info

  11. Engagement P&T Resources • The Academic Portfolio (2009) (Sheldin and Miller) • Campus compact www.compact.org • Promotion, Tenure, and the Engaged Scholar (2002) in AAHE Bulletin (Gelmon and Agre-Kippenhan) • Principles of Best Practices for Community-Based Research (2003) (Strand, Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, and Donohue)

  12. Engagement Dossier Steps • Map your efforts • Determine what impact will be measured • Collect and analyze data • Tell your story

  13. Map Your Efforts • Situation • Inputs • Outputs • Outcomes • Assumptions • External Factors

  14. Mapping Methods • Text • Concept Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map • Logic Model http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/pdf/LMfront.pdf

  15. Determine What Impact Will be Measured • Processes used in your educational efforts to report program/teaching/research quality • Products from your educational/research efforts to report impact on individuals and communities • Performance of the instructor/researcher for personal and program/teaching/research quality

  16. Potential Impact Questions • What new knowledge was discovered, developed, disseminated? • What did participants learn? • How have participant aspirations or motivations changed due to the program? (i.e. intent to change behavior) • What are participants doing differently as a result of the program? • How much have economic, environmental, or social conditions changed due to your efforts?

  17. Potential Scholarly Products Peer products • Articles • Conferences • Posters • Presentations • Abstracts • proceedings • Grants/competitive contracts • Books/texts/chapters/monographs

  18. Potential Scholarly Products Applied products • Curricula/texts • Educational materials • Guides/handbooks • Policies • Research briefs • Social marketing/Apps • Training and technical assistance

  19. Potential Scholarly Products Community Products • Forums/workshops /seminars • Newsletters • Web sites • Presentations • Reports • Designs • Displays • Community attained grants/funding • Community awards

  20. Methods of Engaged Scholarship • Off campus service learning • Internships/practicum/clinical • Coop positions with organizations/agencies/companies • Deliberation/public scholarship • Student led/assisted community seminars/forums/deliberation • Community study tour • Community projects • Community-based participatory action research • Participatory or empowermentevaluation

  21. Collect and Analyze Data • Case Study • Observation • Focus Group/Interview • Secondary Data • Survey/Questionnaire

  22. Tell Your Story • Title • Relevance • Response • Results See: http://connect.ag.vt.edu/impactwriting

  23. Dossier Review Glassick et al. (1997) • Clear goals • Adequate preparation • Appropriate methods • Significant results • Effective presentation • Reflective critique

  24. Dossier Review ISU tenure guidelines • Documentation of candidate’s scholarship and position responsibilities • Definition of scholarship • Effectiveness in areas of responsibility • other

  25. Dossier Review Diamond and Adam • High level of discipline-related experience • Break new ground/innovative • Can be replicated or elaborated • Can be documented • Can be peer reviewed • Significant impact

  26. Dossier Review and Discussion At your table: • What do you see as dossier review criteria at your institution? • What matters? • Other thoughts about dossier review?

  27. Dossier Review Ultimately, RPT decisions rest on values and judgments, not on measurement or clear expectations. Fairweather New Directions for Institutional Research (2002, #114, pg. 97)

  28. Context is Everything • Virginia Tech Focus Groups • At your table review the article on engagement at Virginia Tech • What does this context value for tenure and promotion? • What are the challenges for engaged faculty to gain support? • What supports are in place for engaged scholarship? • Other observations

  29. Context is Everything • How does your institution’s mission align with your work? • How do your institution’s measures of assessment fit with your work? • How does your institution’s strategic plan mesh with your work? • What is your academic appointment? • What is your contribution to your discipline, department, college, institution?

  30. P&T Dossier Best Practices At your table: Record the engagement P&T best practices you’ve gleaned from today’s discussions and materials. Share them with the group

  31. Strengthening the Engagement Dossier Tips and Practices • Start early – engagement takes time • Documentation is an ongoing process • Write for an academic audience • Focus on faculty work, not on the project • Find a balance between process and impact/products • Be clear about the intellectual question or working hypothesis behind the work • Tell the significance of the impact and how it is determined or evaluated

  32. Strengthening the Engagement Dossier Tips and Practices (cont.) • Align engagement with discipline, department, campus, and national priorities • Share only the information that illustrates context or scholarship • Link current and past work with future work • Select mentors and learn the criteria used for your review • Know the expected format for the dossier • Get to know your dossier reviewers and their expectations

  33. Strengthening the Engagement Dossier Tips and Practices (cont.) • Create a documentation file system • Develop a disciplinary, department, and eventually national niche • Publish and present early and often • Select service roles carefully and turn them into scholarship • Make activities that matter a high priority (i.e. writing) • Demonstrate value in all you do

  34. Strengthening the Engagement Dossier Tips and Practices (cont.) • Focus • Be new, the first, or better than others • Be aware of what influences faculty scholarly work and manage it (i.e. assignment, rewards, time, resources, personal priorities, performance review, P&T documents, culture) • Engage many peer reviewers as you go • Find ways to bridge the gaps between tenure expectations and the actual day to day work of faculty • Reach more than one goal with each activity/project and get maximum products out of each effort

  35. Keep the Discussion Going • Use each other as resources on the tenure trail • Attend NOSC • Celebrate success • Keep in touch

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