Documenting Engagement

These resources may provide some guidance for documenting engagement activities. Work with your department or college for specific direction in this area.

Ohio State Resources

Ohio State University Promotion and Tenure Websites

Dossier outline (see Book 3: Promotion and Tenure)
http://oaa.osu.edu/OAAP_PHandbook.php

How to devise ways to evaluate teaching
http://oaa.osu.edu/eval_teaching/index.html

How to report on teaching excellence (see Appendix I: Selected Best Practices)
http://facultycouncil.osu.edu/PeerEvalTeach.html

OSU Extension Resources for Faculty Pursuing Promotion and/or Tenure

http://extadmin-cms.ag.ohio-state.edu/policy-handbook/iii-appointments-promotions-tenure

1. Vita Format Samples includes ideas on how to include outreach and engagement work in the dossier. http://extadmin-cms.ag.ohio-state.edu/policy-handbook/iii-appointments-promotions-tenure/faculty-promotion-tenure/
2. Reference Guide of Professional Journals/Publications—a listing of journals where scholarship related to outreach/engagement could be published: http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/%7Eadmin/publication.htm

OSU Extension Program Development and Evaluation

This page lists resources for developing outreach and engagement programs through OSU Extension.
http://pde-cms.ag.ohio-state.edu/
"Evaluation of Effective Extension Teaching" lists processes and forms for evaluating outreach/engagement teaching.
http://pde-cms.ag.ohio-state.edu/EEETs

Successful Assessment Methods and Measurement In Evaluation (SAMMIE)

Evaluation portal with resources and training modules: http://sammie.osu.edu/

Office of the University Registrar — FYI

Feedback on Your Instruction (FYI) is a web-based system for generating forms to collect student feedback about teaching effectiveness and the quality of specific aspects of a course. It could be adapted to apply to outreach/engagement teaching. For general questions about this, contact FTAD@osu.edu.
http://buckeyelink1.osu.edu/fyi/

Other Resources

American Association of State Colleges and Universities—Stepping Forward as Stewards of Place: A Guide for Leading Public Engagement at State Colleges and Universities

Offers a working definition of public engagement, provides exemplars of campus-wide commitment to engagement initiatives, and proposes concrete actions to promote an even fuller commitment to the concept of engagement. http://www.aascu.org/pdf/stewardsofplace_02.pdf (PDF file)

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health — Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit

Includes the following components: The Community-Engaged Scholarship Review, Promotion, & Tenure Package, which describes eight characteristics of community-engaged scholarship and includes a sample dossier; Planning for Promotion and Tenure; Creating a Strong Portfolio; and Portfolio Examples. http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info

Imagining America — Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University. A Resource for Promotion and Tenure in the Arts, Humanities, and Design

Offers proposals for policy changes to integrate publicly engaged scholarship into tenure and promotion, discusses the idea of public scholarship itself, and stresses the need to link promotion policies to a vision of the whole arc of a scholar’s career development. http://www.imaginingamerica.org/IApdfs/TTI_REPORT%20FINAL%205.2.08.pdf (PDF file)

Michigan State University — Points of Distinction: A Guidebook for Planning and Evaluating Quality Outreach

Helpful tools to assist academic units, faculty leaders, and the higher education community plan, monitor, evaluate, and reward outreach efforts. http://outreach.msu.edu/documents/pod.pdf (PDF file)

Penn State University — UniSCOPE 2000:A Multidimensional Model of Scholarship for the 21st Century

This report focuses on University Scholarship and Criteria for Outreach and Performance Evaluation. http://keystone21.cas.psu.edu/UniSCOPE/

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