An Integrated Model for Advancing the Scholarship of Engagement Creating Academic Homes for the Engaged Scholar

• Published in: Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement pp. 137 - 152
• Main Authors: Sandmann, Lorilee R., Saltmarsh, John, O'Meara, KerryAnn
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2019
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Legitimate Scholarship; Institutional Engagement; Postsecondary Education; Community Engagement Classification; Faculty Engagement; Community Engagement; PFF; Association's 99th Annual Conference; Civic Mission; Institutionalization Axis; Scholarly Engagement; Integrated Model; Knowledge Brokers; Disciplinary Associations; Community Engaged Scholarship; Engaged Scholarship; Higher Education; PFF Program; Faculty Role; Faculty Work; Promotion Guidelines; Higher Education Engagement; Integrated Service Learning; Tenure Guidelines; Legitimate Knowledge
• ISBN: 9781620368558; 1620368544; 9781620368541; 1620368552
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003443353-9

Participants at a recent Wingspread conference on the future of engagement in higher education concluded that while the movement has created some change, it has also plateaued and requires a more comprehensive effort to ensure lasting commitment and institutional capacity. A greater number of academics need to define their territory more widely and accept that they share much of it with other knowledge-professionals; engagement with those beyond the ivory tower may greatly enrich their own thinking. A new epistemology leads to a new scholarship and challenges higher education leaders to envision and enact institutional change that shifts engagement to the core of the university. The need for a new model for advancing the scholarship of engagement has emerged from an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of existing models.