Studying the Professional Lives and Work of Faculty Involved in Community Engagement
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Studying the Professional Lives and Work of Faculty Involved in Community Engagement KerryAnn O’Meara & Lorilee R. Sandmann & John Saltmarsh & Dwight E. Giles Jr.
Published online: 21 September 2010 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Abstract Community engagement is one of the major innovations that has occurred in higher education over the last 20 years. At the center of this innovation are faculty members because of their intimate ties to the academic mission. This article examines the progress that has been made in understanding this critical area of faculty work. It builds on past research to consider
KerryAnn O’Meara is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership, Higher Education and International Education at the University of Maryland College Park. Her research focuses on faculty community engagement, academic reward systems, and faculty work-lives and careers. She received her doctorate from the University of Maryland College Park in higher education policy. Lorilee R. Sandmann is Professor of Adult Education in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on leadership of engaged institutions, major institutional change processes to promote higher education community engagement, and criteria to define and evaluate faculty engaged scholarship. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in adult education and business management. John Saltmarsh is Professor of Higher Education Administration in the Department of Leadership in Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE). His research interests are civic engagement and higher education; community-integrated education; democratic education; service-learning; organizational change; engaged pedagogies; collaborative, participatory epistemology’ and engaged research methods. He received his doctorate from Boston University in American History. Dwight E. Giles Jr. is Professor of Higher Education Administration and Senior Associate at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education in the College of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research interests include service-learning outcomes, community based-research, community-university partnerships, faculty reward structures for community engaged scholarship, and institutional change in higher education. He received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in community development. K. O’Meara (*) Department of Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education, University of Maryland, College Park, 2202 Benjamin Building, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA e-mail: [email protected] L. R. Sandmann Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, The University of Georgia, 413 River’s Crossing, 850 College Station Rd., Athens, GA 20602, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Innov High Educ (2011) 36:83–96
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