Nominations due Apr 29 for Lynton Award for Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

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Nominations due Apr 29 for Lynton Award for Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty at U.S. Higher Ed Institutions

Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,

                    2011 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the
             Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty
                        http://bit.ly/g3sO7U

Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)

The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for
Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pre-tenure at
tenure-granting campuses and early career (i.e., within the first six years)
at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching,
research, and service to community engagement.

Community engagement describes the collaboration between faculty and their
larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the
mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of
partnership and reciprocity.

--Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Lynton Award emphasizes community-based scholarly work across faculty
roles. The scholarship of engagement (also known as outreach scholarship,
public scholarship, scholarship for the common good, community-based
scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship) represents an integrated
view of the faculty role in which teaching, research/creative activity, and
service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly
work tied to a faculty member's expertise, is of benefit to the external
community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects
the mission of the institution. In addition, NERCHE conceptualizes scholarly
engagement in terms of social justice in a diverse democracy.

The award will be presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Coalition
of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) which will be held from
October 9-11, 2011, at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
CUMU is a co-sponsor of the Award.

The recipient of the award will have several opportunities to disseminate
his or her community based work, including presenting at the CUMU
conference, publishing in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, and
participating in one or more of NERCHE's Virtual Think Tanks focused on
community-based scholarly work.

2011 Lynton Award Nominations:

 *  Nominations can be made by academic colleagues, administrators,
    students, and community partners.
 *  More than one faculty member from a single college or university may be
    nominated. Please complete separate applications for each nominee.

Nominators will submit nominations via an online application.  To submit an
application, please see the Application Instructions at http://bit.ly/g3sO7U

Application Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2011.

If you have any questions regarding the Ernest A. Lynton Award, please
contact NERCHE via email at nerche@umb.edu or by phone at (617) 287-7740.

Thanks,

Rahma Osman
Program Assistant

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