Section 5: Faculty and Staff

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Describe the formal recognitions provided by your institution through campus-wide awards and/or celebrations for faculty/staff that partake in academic community engagement.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Indicate the campus approach to faculty tenure and/or promotion.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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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