Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,
The 2014 Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of
Engagement was held on September 15, 2014, at the University of Massachusetts,
Boston. Hosted by NERCHE and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at
Merrimack College, the Annual Lynton Colloquium launched a new research
initiative aimed at studying key community engagement issues identified by a
crowd-sourcing methodology and input from Colloquium participants. Grounded in
the work of NERCHE's Next Generation Engagement project and the CED's focus on
academic programs in civic engagement, the Lynton Colloquium and the Request
for Proposals which grew out of the meeting seek to foster sustained and
systematic investigations that will support deeper understandings of and
clearer actions around critical issues in advancing community engaged
scholarship.
Research Priority Areas
The research initiative is framed with the goal of
identifying the current critical challenges of advancing community engaged
scholarship and the collaborative identification of research priority areas.
The three research areas to emerge as priorities from the Colloquium are:
Structures of Inclusion:
This includes questions of student diversity, faculty
diversity, research methodologies, scholar identities, inequality regimes and
structures of exclusion. Respondents
identified an interest in reframing these regimes and structures toward
equality and inclusion
Leadership:
Includes ways in which academic administrators (Provosts,
Deans, Chairs) create supportive institutional cultures for community-engaged
scholars, as well as professional development for administrators to be
effective and supportive (of community engaged faculty) community-engaged
campus leaders.
Student Outcomes:
Includes civic learning outcomes as well as outcomes around
persistence, retention, and success.
Request for Proposals
The Center for Engaged Democracy is requesting proposals
for research in any of the three research priorities areas listed above. CED
will support research in these areas through three research grants of up to
$5,000 per research project.
A PDF copy of the Request for Proposals (RFP) is
available for download on the CED website at: http://www.engageddemocracy.org/uploads/1/3/7/5/13755214/request_for_research_proposals.pdf
The RFP must be submitted electronically via the
following website:
Proposals are due November 20, 2014, for research to be
completed by August 2015 for presentation at the 2015 Lynton Colloquium in
September 2015. Up to three $5000 grants
will be awarded.
For more information, contact Elaine Ward (warde@merrimack.edu), Dan Butin (butind@merrimack.edu), or John Saltmarsh
(john.saltmarsh@umb.edu). Or visit the CED website at: http://www.engageddemocracy.org/
Learn more about community-engaged scholarship at https://ccph.memberclicks.net/community-engaged-scholarship
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