FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 4, 2005
For more information, contact Jen Kauper-Brown at 206-543-7954 or
[log in to unmask], or visit http://www.ccph.info
National Collaborative Seeks to Change Academic Culture to Embrace Community
Engagement
The Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative is being announced
today by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Funded by a three-year
$563,842 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education, the Collaborative is comprised of a diverse group
of ten health professional schools that seek to recognize and reward community
engagement as central to the role of faculty members at their own institutions
and nationally.
The Collaborative responds to recommendations of many prominent national groups
that are calling upon health professional schools to be more engaged in their
communities, including the Institute of Medicine, the Pew Health Professions
Commission and the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health
Professions. All of these groups advance partnerships with communities as an
essential strategy for improving health professional education, increasing
health workforce diversity and eliminating health disparities. Unfortunately,
community engagement often conflicts with how faculty are recognized and
rewarded. "There are many faculty members in health professional schools
across the country who are passionate about their work in communities and who
are pursuing it despite the prevailing academic culture and reward system,"
notes CCPH executive director Sarena D. Seifer. "We applaud and support their
efforts. However, until community-based teaching, research and service is
accepted as genuine scholarship and adequately recognized and rewarded in the
faculty promotion and tenure system, they will continue to be marginalized and
isolated from the academic mainstream. The Collaborative is at its core about
changing institutional culture and incentives to realize the promise of the
engaged campus."
The Collaborative aims to increase support for community-engaged scholarship in
the participating schools and in health professional schools nationally. Campus
teams reflecting such key stakeholders as community partners, provosts, deans,
department chairs, promotion & tenure committees and faculty members will
convene for the first annual meeting of the Collaborative from February 16-18,
2005 in Nashville, TN. The teams will be supported in their campus change
efforts through ongoing opportunities for training, technical assistance and
information-sharing. Strategic partnerships with national organizations will
facilitate the dissemination of lessons learned to the broader health
professions education community. By the conclusion of the three-year project,
the schools participating in the Collaborative will have significantly changed
their promotion & tenure systems to recognize and reward community-engaged
scholarship and stimulated similar actions in schools across the country.
The schools participating in the collaborative, in alphabetical order, are:
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy, Case Western University School
of Nursing, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Loma Linda University
School of Public Health, University of Cincinnati College of Allied Health
Sciences, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, University of
Massachusetts Worcester School of Nursing, University of Minnesota Academic
Health Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health welcomes suggestions of key articles,
reports, people and programs that can inform the Collaborative's work.
Questions and suggestions may be sent to program director Jen Kauper-Brown by
e-mail: [log in to unmask], by phone: 206/543-7954, by fax: 206-685-6747 or
by mail: UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809.
Stay connected with the project and related work through the Community-Engaged
Scholarship electronic discussion group at
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship
Project updates and reports will also be posted on the CCPH website as they
become available at www.ccph.info
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit membership
organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, CCPH is a growing network of
over 1000 communities and campuses that are collaborating to promote health
through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based
coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful
tools for improving health professional education, civic engagement and the
overall health of communities. CCPH advances its mission through information
dissemination, training and technical assistance, research and evaluation,
policy development and advocacy, and coalition-building. Learn more about CCPH
at www.ccph.info
The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) is a unit of
the Office of Policy Planning and Innovation, and is contained within the
Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. Established by
the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, FIPSE's mandate is to improve
postsecondary educational opportunities across a broad range of concerns.
Through its primary vehicle, the Comprehensive Program grant competition, FIPSE
seeks to support the implementation of innovative educational reform ideas, to
evaluate how well they work, and to share the lessons learned with the larger
education community. Learn more about FIPSE at
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html
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