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Spring 2010 Professional Development Institutes on Community Engaged Scholarship

"Scholarship is teaching, discovery, integration, application and engagement; clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriate methods, significant results, effective presentation, and reflective critique that is rigorous and peer-reviewed."

"Community-engaged scholarship is scholarship that involves the faculty member in a mutually beneficial partnership with the community."

From Linking Scholarship and Communities: The Report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions

Scholarship is an important component of faculty work, yet many institutions are just beginning to implement structures that support community engaged scholarship. These structures include faculty promotion and tenure policies, processes for documentation by faculty of their community engaged scholarship, recognition of the role of partners and students as co-researchers, faculty development, and ways to create connections between community engaged scholarship and learning.

Community Based Participatory Research

This faculty workshop will focus on the value of community partnerships for research based on the work Tufts University. What are strategies and models that have been successful? What structures exist that facilitate research partnerships? How are research questions defined? What are potential barriers or challenges--for faculty as well as for community partners? What are some components of best practices for research? What can be done to ensure that research projects will be mutually beneficial? Whether you are a veteran or new to community based participatory research, this workshop will be a forum to explore new approaches to partnering for research. Faculty and community partner teams are encouraged and there will be opportunities to learn about community-based participatory research projects.

Presenters:
Warren Goldstein-Gelb, The Welcome Project, Somerville, MA
Shirley Mark, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University
Jayanthi Mistry, Chair and Associate Professor, Child Development Department, Tufts University

Thursday, April 1, 2010, 10am-3pm
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Registration fee: $50 (make checks payable to Trustees of Tufts College)
Lunch Provided
To Register: Email julian.brown-myers@tufts.edu