Engaging Departments: Moving Faculty Culture From Private to Public

Posted by on July 9, 2007

We are pleased to announce a new book from Anker Publishing:

Engaging Departments: Moving Faculty Culture From Private to Public, Individual to Collective Focus for the Common Good

Edited by Kevin Kecskes, director of Community-University Partnerships in the Center for Academic Excellence at Portland State University.

This book fills an important niche in the literature on institutional engagement and engaged departments. Representing a range of disciplines-art, Chicana and Chicano studies, communication, educational psychology and counseling, English, geology, nursing, social work, sociology and anthropology-and institution types-two-year and four-year, public and private, comprehensive and research-the heart of this work features 11 departments and their journeys to engagement, focusing on transferable steps and strategies, key factors that helped move civic engagement from the individual faculty level to the collective departmental level, successes and barriers, and future visions. Also outlined are engagement efforts at the institutional and state system levels.

Written for department chairs, faculty, and faculty developers, this book offers approaches to support and sustain the building of engaged departments and invites readers to contemplate and refresh their visions for the relevancy of their disciplines in the 21st century.

These chapters are co-authored by by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health members who are participating in the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html

Nursing Excellence: Community Engagement Through Service-Learning
Georgia Narsavage, Evelyn Duffy, Deborah Lindell, Marilyn J. Lotas, Carol Savrin, Yea-Jyh Chen, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western University — one of 9 institutions participating in the Collaborative

Characteristics of an Engaged Department: Design and Assessment
John Saltmarsh, Sherril Gelmon — CCPH senior consultant/evaluator for the Collaborative

For more information on the book, visit http://www.ankerpub.com.

For more information on community-engaged scholarship, visit
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/scholarship.html

To access the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit, visit
http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info