Section 5: Faculty and Staff
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- As evidence provided for your earlier classification, you described the ways the institution offers resources and support services for faculty in any employment status (tenured/tenure track, adjunct/clinical/non-tenure track, and part/full time) and/or staff who seek to develop or deepen community engaged approaches and methods.
- Check all of the community engaged professional development programs faculty and staff are provided. These programs provide educational training to improve community engagement across faculty and staff roles.
- Describe the formal recognitions provided by your institution through campus-wide awards and/or celebrations for faculty/staff that partake in academic community engagement.
- Provide five to 10 examples of staff scholarship (conference presentation, publication, consulting, awards, etc.) that have taken place since your last classification. A title may not convey how the example is about community engagement, so please provide a short description of how the activity is related to community engagement.
- 1. Ewald, M. L. (2024). Informal STEM Outreach and Engagement. 2024 Outreach Symposium. Auburn, AL (page 7)
- 2. Fuller, L. & Witte, M. (2024). Fostering Service and Collaboration through Community Engaged Cross Cultural Programs. 2024 Outreach Symposium. Auburn, AL
- 3. Gibson-Young, L., Snoddy, R., Doody, J., Thomas, C. & Cost, H. C. (September 2023). Engaging the rural health community with an interdisciplinary and sustainable model of health. Gulf-South Summit, Athens, GA
- 4. Gilpin, J. (2024). The Auburn Informal STEM Connectory: Fostering a Transdisciplinary STEM Ecosystem. 2024 Outreach Symposium. Auburn, AL
- 5. Graham, M., Wendelburg, F., Siao, D., Harris, M., & Birdsong, J. (2024). Incorporating VR Experiences in Collegiate Aviation Outreach. 2024 Outreach Symposium. Auburn, AL
- 6. Hill, L. (2022-2024). The use of the Encyclopedia of Alabama in educational settings. Alabama Department of Education Regional In-service Center, Alabama Public Television Professional Development Workshops, and Alabama Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference
- 7. Kent, M. (2024). Outreach, Engagement, and AI: What Engaged Professionals Should Know. 2024 Outreach Symposium. Auburn, AL
- Provide five to 10 examples of faculty scholarship from as many different disciplines as possible that have taken place since your last classification. A title may not convey how the example is about community engagement, so please provide a short description of how the activity is related to community engagement.
- 1. Tuggle, F., Afolayan, Q., Smith, M., Cline, D., and Kiadii, O. (2025). Evaluation of a Global Capacity Development Project to Educate, Empower, and Advance Sustainable Food Production, Journal of Social Work in the Global Community, 9:1–20 DOI: 10.5590/JSWGC.2025.09.1063
- 2. McCormick N, Jackson BN, Durham SH, Hohmann NS, Westrick S.C. (2023). Qualitative analysis of community pharmacy-based COVID-19 immunization service operations. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association; 63(5): 1574-82. PMID: 37394061
- 3. Duke, A. M., & Norton, J. (2022). Helping Youth Escape Vapes: An Online Evaluation of a Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Program. Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 10(3), 7.
- 4. Song, A. & Hur, J. (2022). Development of youth leadership through community-based participatory action research during the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of Korean American adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 1–29.
- 5. Young, A. L., Mir, S., Gibson-Young, L. & Oliver, G. (2021) Assessing personal protective equipment needs for healthcare workers Health Science Reports ISBN/ISSN: 10.1002/hsr2.
- 6. González, J. E., P. Ramamurthy, R. Bornstein, F. Chen, E. Bou-Zeid, M. Ghandehari, J. Luvall, C. Mitra, and D. Niyogi. (2021). Urban climate and resiliency: A synthesis report of state of the art and future research directions. Urban Climate 38: 100858.
- Provide 5 to 10 examples of student scholarship from as many different disciplines as possible. A title may not convey how the example is about community engagement, so please provide a short description of how the activity is related to community engagement.
- 1. Hanson, E. & Lucier-Greer, M. (2024). Better together: Capitalizing on the collective agency of a university-nonprofit partnership to achieve actionable solutions for military families.
- 2. Lee, W. (2024). Campus Kitchen at Auburn University, Pre-Conference Workshop, Gulf South Summit, Auburn University Auburn, AL. Public Administration Graduate Student Presentation.
- 3. Tidwell, A. & Lucier-Greer, M. (2024). Lessons Learned from an International Collaboration on Veteran Family.
- 4. Bridges, G. (2024). Farmer Perspectives on Farm Stress.
- 5. Sjolseth, S. & Lucier-Greer, M. (2024). Advancing Family Resilience through Community-Based Mental Health Center Policies: Facilitating Conversations and Breaking Boundaries. College of Human Sciences (Human Development and Family Studies) Graduate Student Outreach Poster Presentation, Outreach and Engaged Scholarship Symposium, Auburn University Auburn, AL.
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- 6. Ryan, B. & Mitra, C. (2024). Beat the Heat: Informing Alabama Residents about the Impacts of Extreme Heat on the Body.
- 7. Pauley, A.L. & Sandage, M. J. (2024). A Multimodal Study of Vocal Function and Upper Airway Temperature in Individuals with Asthma vs. Controls, Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship.
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- 8. Hudson, A. & Fuller-Rowell, T. (2024). The Changing Role of Occupational Characteristics in Socioeconomic Health Disparities, Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship.
- 9. Li, Z. (2024). Socioeconomic Status and Healthcare Access, Auburn University Outreach Symposium.
- 10. Mintah, A. (2024). The Impact of Mindfulness in the Social Development of Young Adults with Cognitive and Communication Disabilities, Auburn University Outreach Symposium.
- Describe how the institution regularly measures and assesses faculty community engagement, particularly as it relates to outputs and outcomes relative to teaching, research/creative activity, and/or service. How is data used to improve programs and outcomes? How have the results changed since your last classification? Provide relevant links.
- Indicate the campus approach to faculty tenure and/or promotion.
- Describe policies and practices that support faculty community engagement for faculty at your institution such as search and recruitment, annual review, reappointment, promotion, bonuses, and/or merit pay. Do NOT include promotion and/or tenure policies in this response.
- Describe the policies for faculty promotion (at tenure-granting campuses) from all levels of the institution (campus, college or school, department) that specifically reward faculty community-engaged scholarship.
- In the period since your last classification, if you made revisions to faculty community engagement reward policies to promotion and tenure (at tenure granting campuses), please address the following where applicable.
- If revisions have not taken place but there is work in progress to revise promotion and tenure guidelines (at tenure granting institutions) to reward faculty scholarly work that uses community engaged approaches and methods, describe the current work in progress, including a description of the process and who is involved.
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