Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2006
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2006) 24
doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0024.014
Abstract
Portland State University encourages faculty participation in service-learning by providing faculty with individual incentives to support and reward them. Now, in recognition of this central role of the department in higher education, administrators interested in creating sustained civic engagement initiatives on campus are looking to the department as a strategic leverage point for change. This chapter investigates a yearlong engaged department initiative and finds that a collective approach can (re)connect individual faculty to their initial motivations for engaging in the profession, to a community of scholars, to their students, and also to their surrounding community.
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License: CC BY-NC-ND