scholarly journals Community-Engaged Scholarship and Promotion and Tenure: Lessons from Lynton Award Recipients

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Ward
Keyword(s):  
External Validation ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Internal Validation ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship

In 2008, for my dissertation research, I interviewed 11 faculty members who received the Ernest Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement to examine their experiences with promotion and tenure.  There were 3 assistant professors, 1 associate professor, and 7 full professors.  All faculty members were female and represented 8 4-year public institutions (4 RU/VH, 2 Master’s and 2 Doctoral Granting Universities) and 3 4-year private institutions (2 Bac/A&S and 1 RU/VH).  They represented the humanities (8) and the sciences (3).   Through qualitative, semi-structured, opened ended interviews I aimed to understand their experiences with engaged scholarship in the context of promotion and tenure. Many community-engaged scholars fight to receive the internal validation that Ernest advocated for with Amy Driscoll via Making Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach (1999). Ernest might be somewhat content to know that the award in his name provides external validation that helps legitimize their scholarship at their home institution. I say ‘somewhat content’, because it is clear that Ernest had greater expectations for institutions to value the work of engaged faculty.  Amy Driscoll has helped advance Ernest’s vision through her leadership of the collaborative process of that produced the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement (2008), and its requirement that applicants must show how they address promotion of community engaged scholarship formally via personnel policy i.e. faculty handbooks and contracts.  While we find more and more evidence of rewards that value community-engaged scholarship, there is still work to be done to reach broad and consistent equivalence of recognition and rewards across all faculty roles.

scholarly journals Is the Scholarship of Engagement a Meaningful Approach to Foster Change in Community Development Education? Field Notes from Three Community/University Partnerships

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena M. Estrada-Martínez ◽  
Antonio Raciti ◽  
Kenneth M. Reardon ◽  
Angela G. Reyes ◽  
Barbara A. Israel
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Development Education ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
Action Project ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Epistemological Framework

AbstractPedagogical approaches in community-engaged education have been the object of interest for those aiming at improving community health and well-being and reducing social and economic inequities. Using the epistemological framework provided by the scholarship of engagement, this article examines three nationally recognized and successful examples of community-university partnerships in the fields of community planning and public health: the East St. Louis Action Research Project, the South Memphis Revitalization Action Project, and the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. We review and compare how these partnerships emerged, developed, and engaged students, community partners, and academic researchers with their local communities in ways that achieved positive social change. We conclude by highlighting common elements across the partnerships that provide valuable insights in promoting more progressive forms of community-engaged scholarship, as well as a list of examples of what radical forms of community-engaged education may look like.

scholarly journals Intense, Pervasive and Shared Faculty Dialogue: Generating Understanding and Identifying “Hotspots” in Five Days

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Emily Janke ◽  
Barbara Holland ◽  
Kristin Medlin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Faculty Support ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
The University

Once an institution has chosen to recognize and reward community-engaged scholarship in its university-wide promotion and tenure policy, what are some strategies for aligning unit and department policies as well? This chapter describes the path followed at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro to align policies across all units and departments. Discussed are core strategies used to generate faculty support for community-engaged scholarship in promotion and tenure policy and practice, the themes revealed as a result of a weeklong dialogue initiative, and recommendations for continued improvement.

Are All Forms Of Scholarship Considered Equal?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Ward ◽  
Martin Carrigan
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
Review Committee ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Institutional Barrier ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
The University ◽  
Accepted Form ◽  
Scholarship Reconsidered

Boyer’s four forms of scholarship were detailed in his 1990 book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate.  In the 18 years since publication of that book, universities struggle with changing the promotion and tenure criteria to include all four forms of scholarship.  Faculty members often focus on publications as they prepare for promotion and tenure.  They are not comfortable immersing themselves in other forms of scholarship, like engagement, for fear it may be viewed unfavorably by the university and/or the review committee.  This paper focuses on the scholarship of engagement as it struggles to break through the institutional barrier and become an accepted form of scholarship.

scholarly journals A Linguist’s Journey Toward Community Engaged Scholarship: Insights on Definitions, Practice and Evaluation Policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
College Classrooms ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Partner Collaboration ◽  
Promotion Process

This article contributes to the current conversation surrounding the definition of community-engaged scholarship (CES) by providing critical insights from a linguist’s journey towards establishing a CES partnership with a middle school. I argue that a prescribed CES definition for all disciplines is neither possible nor desirable. CES has gained appeal in recent years because of the mutual benefits promised by the scholar–community partner collaboration. At the same time, the conversation around defining CES is ongoing, highlighting the difficulties in establishing a single definition of CES for all disciplines. In response, individual institutions have adopted their own definition in an effort to help their faculty members navigate CES and assist their efforts towards satisfying requirements for promotion and tenure. While designed to ensure rigorous scholarship and true community involvement, institutional-specific definitions can unintentionally limit a scholar’s CES options, particularly given the expectations of the tenure and promotion process. As a result, scholars in disciplines which are not well understood outside academia, such as linguistics, find themselves ill-positioned to engage in CES. And as the general public is unfamiliar with the discipline and its benefits, developing mutually beneficial partnerships with community organisations requires an extensive amount of time – more than is usually required of other disciplines engaged in CES. Furthermore, tenure and promotion timeline expectations may be incompatible with CES work for some disciplines. Two solutions are proposed to address these challenges. First, scholars in disciplines such as linguistics must utilise multiple approaches to developing partnerships, such as volunteerism, community outreach and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and be intentional in college classrooms in engaging undergraduates in activities that make the discipline relevant outside academia. Second, they must challenge current CES definitions and interpretations and advocate for policy changes to the tenure and promotion process on their individual campuses.

Designing a Course for the Development of Community-Engaged Researchers in a College of Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-104
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Zimmerman ◽  
Shirley M. Matteson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship

Community-engaged scholarship is a democratic approach to scholarship that seeks to identify and solve community-based problems. In this chapter, the authors, both faculty members within a college of education, describe the challenge of creating opportunities to prepare graduate students to become community-engaged researchers. In this chapter, the authors will explore the challenges related to designing coursework that successfully supports the development of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required for successful community-engaged research. The authors present narratives that describe their transition into their college and describe how this organizational context influenced the manner in which they went about designing a course on community-engaged research. The authors then outline, in detail, a number of assignments developed for this research course. These assignments are presented as a resource for faculty who are developing courses that aim to prepare graduate students for community-engaged scholarship.

scholarly journals The HeART of Listening

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric DeMeulenaere
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
Metropolitan Universities ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Dr. Eric DeMeulenaere is Associate Professor of Education at Clark University in Worcester, MA. When he received the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement in 2015, he was an Assistant Professor coming up for promotion and tenure. He received the Lynton award because his scholarly work exemplifies deep collaboration with community partners across the faculty roles of teaching, research, and service. That reciprocity and valuing of the knowledge assets in the community comes across strongly in this essay. His essay is fundamentally about engagement that disrupts the dominant epistemology of the academy, which narrowly constrains ways of knowing and passes for legitimate knowledge. Much of this essay reflects the keynote address that Eric gave at the Lynton Colloquium at the University of Massachusetts, Boston in September of 2015. He received the Lynton Award at the annual meeting of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Omaha, Nebraska the following month. Scholars like Eric, and all Lynton Award recipients, need supportive institutional environments of campuses—like those of CUMU—that redefine excellence through demonstrated engagement with and positive impact across their local cities and communities, valuing and nurturing their epistemic orientations and those of their students. —John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

QSAR Analysis for Antioxidant Activity of Dipicolinic Acid Derivatives

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Rastija ◽  
Maja Molnar ◽  
Tena Siladi ◽  
Vijay Hariram Masand
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Activity ◽  
Antioxidant Activities ◽  
Dipicolinic Acid ◽  
External Validation ◽  
Qsar Model ◽  
Internal Validation ◽  
Qsar Analysis ◽  
Dragon Descriptors ◽  
Qsar Models ◽  
New Compounds

Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to derive robust and reliable QSAR models for clarification and prediction of antioxidant activity of 43 heterocyclic and Schiff bases dipicolinic acid derivatives. According to the best obtained QSAR model, structures of new compounds with possible great activities should be proposed. Methods: Molecular descriptors were calculated by DRAGON and ADMEWORKS from optimized molecular structure and two algorithms were used for creating the training and test sets in both set of descriptors. Regression analysis and validation of models were performed using QSARINS. Results: The model with best internal validation result was obtained by DRAGON descriptors (MATS4m, EEig03d, BELm4, Mor10p), split by ranking method (R2 = 0.805; R2 ext = 0.833; F = 30.914). The model with best external validation result was obtained by ADMEWORKS descriptors (NDB, MATS5p, MDEN33, TPSA), split by random method (R2 = 0.692; R2 ext = 0.848; F = 16.818). Conclusion: Important structural requirements for great antioxidant activity are: low number of double bonds in molecules; absence of tertial nitrogen atoms; higher number of hydrogen bond donors; enhanced molecular polarity; and symmetrical moiety. Two new compounds with potentially great antioxidant activities were proposed.

scholarly journals Modification and Validation of the Phosphate Removal Model: A Multicenter Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Weichen Zhang ◽  
Qiuna Du ◽  
Jing Xiao ◽  
Zhaori Bi ◽  
Chen Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polynomial Regression ◽  
External Validation ◽  
Original Model ◽  
Phosphate Concentration ◽  
Phosphate Removal ◽  
Internal Validation ◽  
Modified Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Removal Model

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Our research group has previously reported a noninvasive model that estimates phosphate removal within a 4-h hemodialysis (HD) treatment. The aim of this study was to modify the original model and validate the accuracy of the new model of phosphate removal for HD and hemodiafiltration (HDF) treatment. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> A total of 109 HD patients from 3 HD centers were enrolled. The actual phosphate removal amount was calculated using the area under the dialysate phosphate concentration time curve. Model modification was executed using second-order multivariable polynomial regression analysis to obtain a new parameter for dialyzer phosphate clearance. Bias, precision, and accuracy were measured in the internal and external validation to determine the performance of the modified model. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Mean age of the enrolled patients was 63 ± 12 years, and 67 (61.5%) were male. Phosphate removal was 19.06 ± 8.12 mmol and 17.38 ± 6.75 mmol in 4-h HD and HDF treatments, respectively, with no significant difference. The modified phosphate removal model was expressed as Tpo<sub>4</sub> = 80.3 × <i>C</i><sub>45</sub> − 0.024 × age + 0.07 × weight + β × clearance − 8.14 (β = 6.231 × 10<sup>−3</sup> × clearance − 1.886 × 10<sup>−5</sup> × clearance<sup>2</sup> – 0.467), where <i>C</i><sub>45</sub> was the phosphate concentration in the spent dialysate measured at the 45th minute of HD and clearance was the phosphate clearance of the dialyzer. Internal validation indicated that the new model was superior to the original model with a significantly smaller bias and higher accuracy. External validation showed that <i>R</i><sup>2</sup>, bias, and accuracy were not significantly different than those of internal validation. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> A new model was generated to quantify phosphate removal by 4-h HD and HDF with a dialyzer surface area of 1.3–1.8 m<sup>2</sup>. This modified model would contribute to the evaluation of phosphate balance and individualized therapy of hyperphosphatemia.

scholarly journals Introducing Twitter Daily Estimates of Residents and Non-Residents at the County Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Yago Martín ◽  
Zhenlong Li ◽  
Yue Ge ◽  
Xiao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Population ◽  
External Validation ◽  
Population Estimates ◽  
County Level ◽  
Internal Validation ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Dynamic Component ◽  
Home Location ◽  
Non Local

The study of migrations and mobility has historically been severely limited by the absence of reliable data or the temporal sparsity of available data. Using geospatial digital trace data, the study of population movements can be much more precisely and dynamically measured. Our research seeks to develop a near real-time (one-day lag) Twitter census that gives a more temporally granular picture of local and non-local population at the county level. Internal validation reveals over 80% accuracy when compared with users’ self-reported home location. External validation results suggest these stocks correlate with available statistics of residents/non-residents at the county level and can accurately reflect regular (seasonal tourism) and non-regular events such as the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017. The findings demonstrate that Twitter holds the potential to introduce the dynamic component often lacking in population estimates. This study could potentially benefit various fields such as demography, tourism, emergency management, and public health and create new opportunities for large-scale mobility analyses.

scholarly journals Automatized Hepatic Tumor Volume Analysis of Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases by Gd-EOB MRI—A Deep-Learning Model to Support Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference Decision-Making

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2726
Author(s):  
Uli Fehrenbach ◽  
Siyi Xin ◽  
Alexander Hartenstein ◽  
Timo Alexander Auer ◽  
Franziska Dräger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Metastases ◽  
External Validation ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Hepatic Tumor ◽  
Liver Malignancies ◽  
Internal Validation ◽  
Matthew’S Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Therapy Success ◽  
Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases

Background: Rapid quantification of liver metastasis for diagnosis and follow-up is an unmet medical need in patients with secondary liver malignancies. We present a 3D-quantification model of neuroendocrine liver metastases (NELM) using gadoxetic-acid (Gd-EOB)-enhanced MRI as a useful tool for multidisciplinary cancer conferences (MCC). Methods: Manual 3D-segmentations of NELM and livers (149 patients in 278 Gd-EOB MRI scans) were used to train a neural network (U-Net architecture). Clinical usefulness was evaluated in another 33 patients who were discussed in our MCC and received a Gd-EOB MRI both at baseline and follow-up examination (n = 66) over 12 months. Model measurements (NELM volume; hepatic tumor load (HTL)) with corresponding absolute (ΔabsNELM; ΔabsHTL) and relative changes (ΔrelNELM; ΔrelHTL) between baseline and follow-up were compared to MCC decisions (therapy success/failure). Results: Internal validation of the model’s accuracy showed a high overlap for NELM and livers (Matthew’s correlation coefficient (φ): 0.76/0.95, respectively) with higher φ in larger NELM volume (φ = 0.80 vs. 0.71; p = 0.003). External validation confirmed the high accuracy for NELM (φ = 0.86) and livers (φ = 0.96). MCC decisions were significantly differentiated by all response variables (ΔabsNELM; ΔabsHTL; ΔrelNELM; ΔrelHTL) (p < 0.001). ΔrelNELM and ΔrelHTL showed optimal discrimination between therapy success or failure (AUC: 1.000; p < 0.001). Conclusion: The model shows high accuracy in 3D-quantification of NELM and HTL in Gd-EOB-MRI. The model’s measurements correlated well with MCC’s evaluation of therapeutic response.

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