“Community engagement was the best and only way to fulfill my teaching, scholarly work, and service requirements during my tenure and promotion process. In particular, service-learning makes a significant difference for my students and community, highlighting my unique contributions to the University's mission.”
—Dr. Elisa Velasques-Andrade, SSU Department of Psychology
What do Faculty Do?
Tenured and tenure-track faculty have three jobs. Their primary job is teaching, followed by scholarship and service. Lecturers, also called instructors, adjuncts, part-time, and temporary, are hired to teach particular courses. They may or may not participate in the other two jobs.
- Learn more about service-learning and other community engaged teaching methods.
- Learn more about what research shows about the impact of service-learning on community partners.
- Learn more about the value of service-learning.
Second, faculty are required to participate in scholarship. This might look like research, creative activity, and the publishing and presenting of that scholarship.
- Learn more about community engaged participatory research (CBPR) and other community engaged scholarship methods.
- Learn more about the value of CBPR for community partners.
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Third, they are also required to do service to the University, which usually looks like committee work. Additionally, at SSU, they are also required to do community service.
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To Consider
The demands of the three traditional faculty roles need not compete with each other but rather can be part of an integrated set of activities. Community engaged work — work with your organization — can be that connector.
