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Faculty Engaged Scholars Program

The Faculty Engaged Scholars program is an initiative of the Carolina Center for Public Service to advance faculty involvement in engaged scholarship. The University Task Force on Future Promotion and Tenure Policies and Practices defined engaged scholarship as “scholarly efforts to expand multifaceted intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practices and public consequences.” Such scholarship, while fully grounded as disciplined inquiry according to the highest academic standards, also strengthens university-community relationships and contributes to the common good. 

The Faculty Engaged Scholars program selects up to eight faculty members every other year to participate in a two–year program aimed at learning about and pursuing community engagement through scholarly endeavor.

The Faculty Engaged Scholars program began in 2007 and to date, 24 faculty members from eight schools and 17 departments have participated in the program. For information about the participants, see http://www.unc.edu/ccps/faculty-engaged-scholars-current-scholars.php.

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Read about Faculty Engaged Scholar Karen Erickson’s passion for engaged scholarship in the Carolina Center for Public Service annual report.