Research

Here are a few research projects that have analyzed community engagement and RPT guidelines within the university sector:

From Rhetoric to Reality: A Typology of Publically Engaged Scholarship - Michigan State University

• Researchers reviewed faculty description of ES. They found fourteen various types of activities that faculty participate in, which can also be reviewed and defined institutionally.

We're Talking About Process: The Primacy of Relationship and Epistemology in Defining Community Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Policy - University of Michigan

• This document highlights a case study of UNCG. It discusses the process of developing definitions for CES, and how/if units have characterized it within their own guidelines.

The Scholarship of Engagement: A Taxonomy of Five Emerging Practices - Barker

• This document categorizes five types of engagement with community, specifically as they pertain to civic practices in scholarship. It discusses different manifestations of community collaboration and connects them to democratic theories.