Supporting Faculty, Graduate Students & Post-Docs to Succeed as Community-Engaged Scholars - Oct 30 in Washington DC

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Dear service-learning colleagues,

We invite you to join us for a learning institute during the American Public Health Association conference, Oct 30 from 8-11:30 am, Washington DC, supported by CCPH and the Community-Based Public Health Caucus

"Supporting Faculty, Graduate Students & Post-Docs to Succeed as
Community-Engaged Scholars"

Register today at http://bit.ly/ooFdSx - you don't need to register for the whole conference if you just want to attend the institute!

The purpose of this institute is to provide faculty members, post-docs and
graduate students who are committed to improving public health through
community-engaged teaching and research with tools, tips and strategies
for successful academic careers. Community-engaged teaching and research
are central to preparing future public health professionals and
understanding and addressing health disparities, yet university systems
for preparing, recognizing and rewarding faculty who lead these efforts
often are not supportive. Community-engaged scholars often lack formal
mentoring and professional development and face promotion and tenure
committees that regard their scholarship as service or activism, and
overemphasize the importance of federal grants and peer-reviewed papers in
top tier journals in their faculty reviews.

Through interactive sessions that build towards a personal action plan for
each participant, the institute will focus in three key areas: (1)
Developing a scholarly agenda and the competencies and resources needed to
implement it; (2) Documenting community-engaged scholarship for promotion and tenure; and (3) Publishing and disseminating peer-reviewed products of community-engaged scholarship.

This institute builds on seven years of learning from national initiatives led by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (the most recent of which is Faculty for the Engaged Campus) that have addressed these challenges by changing promotion and tenure policies, facilitating peer reviewed publication of applied products of community-engaged scholarship and supporting faculty to gain the competencies to be successful in conducting and documenting community-engaged scholarship.  Learn more about Faculty for the Engaged Campus at http://bit.ly/b6qUsd

Thanks,

Rahma Osman
Program Assistant

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