Carolina Center for Public Service - Public Service and Engagement at Carolina

Eligibility and Application Process

Eligibility

Priority for participation is given to full-time tenure-track faculty with any length of service at UNC-Chapel Hill, and full-time fixed-term faculty who have been at UNC-Chapel Hill for at least five years. It is a competitive application process, and each application requires the signature of a dean or department chair stating support for the applicant. Faculty who demonstrate that their scholarship is responsive to community need, with the potential to establish long-term benefits to North Carolinians, will receive preference.

The successful nominee for this program should possess the following qualities:
• Have an active research agenda that contributes to the discipline and has an impact on the community (community can be defined broadly, including grassroots, non-profit and business organizations; educational and governmental agencies; neighborhoods or individuals with a common interest).
• Demonstrate a desire for new learning about service and engaged scholarship.
• Demonstrate an interest in working with faculty across disciplines, with community stakeholders, and with students.
• Demonstrate the capacity to effectively communicate and disseminate the results of their research and engaged scholarship to public, academic, and other external audiences.
• Commitment to actively participating in the two years of the program, including planning, implementing or expanding an engaged scholarship project in collaboration with a community partner.

Application Process

Applications for the two year program are solicited every other year. The next round of selections will be in fall of 2010, and the on-line applications will be available on this site in July of that year. For more information on applying to the program, please contact Lynn Blanchard, director of the Carolina Center for Public Service.