(Separate Fee Required) SSRPCB-3: Advancing and Rewarding Community Engaged and Anti-Oppressive Scholarship in the Promotion and Tenure Process

This workshop will focus on specific ways to support community-engaged and anti-oppressive scholars and to amend promotion and tenure processes and criteria to recognize and account for both community-engaged and anti-oppressive scholarship. It is aimed at people in leadership roles, those serving on promotion and tenure committees, as well as those who do community-engaged and/or anti-oppressive scholarship, including junior faculty and doctoral students. It draws on the facilitator’s experience chairing a university-wide committee that developed guidelines for all schools and departments to incorporate community-engaged scholarship into tenure and promotion policies, as well as their experience in helping to rewrite school-specific policies. Topics will include 1) principles of community-engaged scholarship; 2) challenges facing community-engaged and anti-oppressive scholars in the promotion and tenure process; 3) ways to support such scholars; 4) ways to thoroughly document the process and outcomes of these types of scholarship; and 5) multiple ways to assess and measure societal and scholarly impact. Examples will be provided. The workshop will be interactive and generative, so please come ready to discuss and collaborate!