What are some definitions, metrics, and processes that Review, Promotion and Tenure (RPT) committees can understand and adopt? What are some best practices?
Assessment criteria for scholarship in general, as well as for community-engaged scholarship in particular, have been articulated and can be useful for promotion and tenure committees in assessing the work of faculty. The following references (also included in the Collaborative’s Annotated Bibliography) may particularly valuable in reviewing the assessment criteria, and applying those criteria to faculty work. Glassick, C. E., M. T. Huber, et al. (1997). Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. Menlo Park, CA, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: 126. Annotation: This work builds on Boyer’s 1990 Scholarship Reconsidered by addressing how scholarly work, across the four dimensions of discovery, integration, application, and teaching can be adequately assessed and documented, with specific concern to how this assessment can influence faculty advancement at universities. The criteria for assessing scholarship: clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriat
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