Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions

Posted by on April 23, 2004

With funding from the WK Kellogg Foundation, the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions was convened by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health to take a leadership role in creating a more supportive culture and reward system for health professional faculty involved in community-based participatory research, service-learning and other forms of “community-engaged scholarship.”

As a part of its work, the Commission seeks to highlight examples of how health professional schools and departments are currently recognizing and rewarding community-engaged scholarship, and examples of faculty members who are successfully pursuing community-engaged scholarship.

Please visit http://catalyst.washington.edu/webtools/webq/survey.cgi?user=jenbr&survey=1 to post information about any promising practices.

Specifically, we are looking for promising practices from institutions and faculty based in the United States and Canada in these categories:

Health professional schools or departments:

* Changes in review, promotion and tenure (RPT) guidelines and policies to reflect an expanded definition of scholarship
* Orientations and trainings for RPT committee members
* Inclusion of community partners in the development of RPT guidelines and policies
* Investment in the recruitment and retention of community-engaged faculty members
* Discussion about the definition of scholarship and the need to recognize and reward community-engaged scholarship
* Meaningful involvement of community partners in the RPT process
* Solicitation of external peer review for products of community-engaged
scholarship
* Other types of support and reward of community-engaged scholarship

Health professional faculty:

* Been able to meet their goal of having community-engaged scholarship be the central focus of their careers
* Been promoted based on their community-engaged scholarship
* Met their school’s expectations for publication in peer-reviewed journals
* Received funding from CDC to support their community-engaged scholarship
* Received funding from institutional sources to support their community-engaged scholarship
* Received funding from NIH, AHRQ, CIHR, or CHSRF to support their community-engaged scholarship
* Received funding from private foundations to their support community-engaged scholarship
* Received tenure based on their community-engaged scholarship

For more information about the Commission, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html

For more information about community-engaged scholarship, including links to reports, progressive faculty promotion and tenure policies and other resources, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/scholarship.html

To be added to our email list for Commission announcements and updates, send your email to CCPH Program Coordinator Jen Kauper-Brown at jenbr@u.washington.edu