Rhonda, thanks for raising the whole issue of how faculty are recruited,
recognized and rewarded. The Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship
in the Health Professions, funded by the WK Kellogg Foundation, recently
released its report on "Linking Scholarship and Communities." The report
makes recommendations for how health professional schools and their
national associations can support the community-engaged scholarship and
cites promising practices that are already being implemented. The report
is available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html
The Commission also supported the development of the Community-Engaged
Scholarship Toolkit to provide health professional faculty with a set of
tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship
and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure. The toolkit is
online at www.communityengagedscholarship.info and is being continuously
evaluated and updated - comments and suggestions for improvement are
welcome!
A collaborative of 10 universities in the US funded by the US Department
of Education is now working to implement the report's recommendations:
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html
Commission staff are continuing to seek 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. For more
information, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html#Contribute
Lastly, the Community-Engaged Scholarship listserv provides a venue for
sharing information and resources concerning the academic review and
reward system for health professional faculty involved in community-based
participatory research, service-learning and other forms of community-engaged
scholarship.
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship
Sarena
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
www.ccph.info
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Rhonda Love wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I would like to respond to one aspect of Linda's post: the role of academics
> and the university.
>
> Until universities change the ways that scholars and scholarship are evaluated
> and promoted, there will be little change in the way academics work. Academia
> is suffering as "market forces" change the structure of the academic workforce
> and the actual job of academics. I personally see no signs that universities
> are encouraging community control over research, unless that "community" is
> already rich and powerful. I, am, however, hopeful that efforts such as the
> Community-Campus Partnership for Health that Sarena Saifer wrote to us about,
> and other such efforts, may create change from the bottom up.
>
> There are some very good critiques of the university in society and I want to
> encourage list members to read some or all of them. These books show
> the "underbelly" of academia and understanding that will help "community"
> workers know the forces that shape higher education and research. I suggest
> just a few below:
>
>
> Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education by
> Derek Bok, published by Princeton University Press in 2003. ISBN: 0-691-11412-9
>
>
> Universities and Globalization, edited by Jan Currie and Janice Newson,
> published by Sage Publications, 1998. ISBN: 0-7619-1066-2 (pbk).
>
> The Canadian Association of University Teachers has a book series and that can
> be found on CAUT's website: http://www.caut.ca Below is a detailed sampling
> of that series:
>
> The Olivieri Report: The complete text of the report of the independent
> inquiry commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, by
> Jon Thompson, Patricia Baird and Jocelyn Downie. Published by James Lorimer
> and Company, Ltd., 2001. ISBN 1-55028-739-7
>
> Discipling Dissent: The curbing of free expression in academia and the media.
> Edited by: William Bruneau and James L. Turk, Published by James Lorimer and
> Company Ltd., 2004. ISBN 1-55028-841-5
>
> Let Them Eat Prozac by Dr. David Healy, Published by James Lorimer and
> Company, Ltd., 2003. ISBN: 1-55028-783-4
>
> Also in the series from CAUT: Counting Out the Scholars: How Performance
> Indicators Undermine Colleges and Universities by William Bruneau and Donald
> Savage; The Corporate Campus: Commercialization and the Dangers to Canada's
> Colleges and Universities, edited by James L. Turk; Universities for Sale:
> Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education.
>
> Happy Reading!
>
> Rhonda Love
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Linda Green <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>>> Announcing the publication of Methods in Community-Based Participatory
>>> Research
>>> for Health Edited by Barbara A. Israel DrPH, Eugenia Eng DrPH, Amy J.
>>> Schulz
>>> PhD, Edith A. Parker DrPH
>>>
>>> Written by distinguished experts
>>
>> Let's just flag the phrase 'distinguished experts' for a moment
>> in light of the claims being made about equal partnerships below.
>> With the respect due those who have developed CBPR and are
>> promoting it so that community based organizations can get into
>> line with the requirements of new evidentiary regimes (including
>> program and outcomes evaluation), I noticed that the principles
>> and practices that inform community based participatory research
>> are essentially those of community psychology. Given that, I wonder
>> about the strength of the argument that CBPR is truly community
>> based? I find it very difficult given my exposure to the practices
>> of knowledge production in the field of psychology to see the field
>> as capable of leading anything truly grassroots. When I inquired of
>> those online recently about the history of usage of the term citizen
>> engagement, someone (forgive me for forgetting for the moment
>> who that was) responded with a comparison with the participatory
>> approach that is credited to Paolo Freire. However, I want to point
>> out that from my point of view, it is a significant political leap from
>> CBPR to the work of Freire. This was an extremely generous
>> comparison I think.
>>
>> For those who weren't aware of the origins of CBPR in community
>> psychology, take a look at the book Community Psychology: Linking
>> Individuals and communities. Dalton, J.H. (2001). Stamford, Conn.
>> Wadsworth Publishing.
>>
>>> in the field, this book shows how researchers,
>>> practitioners, and community partners can work together to establish and
>>> maintain equitable partnerships
>>
>> why are we so sure these are equitable partnerships? I think
>> that assertion may need some reality testing. My experience is
>> you don't have to dig very deep to hear how this isn't quite a fit
>> on the community side of these partnerships. I suspect we need to
>> have a closer look at how the role and power of universities and
>> academics in knowledge production are being reasserted and
>> redefined by the machinery of evidence based policy making.
>>
>>> using a community-based participatory research
>>> (CBPR) approach to increase knowledge and improve health and well-being
>>> of the
>>> communities involved. What distinguishes CBPR from other approaches to
>>> research
>>> is the active engagement of all partners in the process. This book
>>> provides a
>>> comprehensive and thorough presentation of CBPR study designs, specific
>>> data
>>> collection and analysis methods, and innovative partnership structures
>>> and
>>> process methods. This book informs students, practitioners, researchers,
>>> and
>>> community members about methods and applications needed to conduct CBPR
>>> in the
>>> widest range of research areas?including social determinants of health,
>>> health
>>> disparities, health promotion, community interventions, disease
>>> management,
>>> health services, and environmental health.
>>
>> just a few observations. Linda
>>>
>>
>> ____________________________
>> Linda Green, OISE/UT
>> Counselling for Community Settings
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