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

Eligibility and Application Process

Eligibility

Priority for participation is given to tenure-track faculty with any length of service at UNC-Chapel Hill, and 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 and implementing an engaged scholarship project in collaboration with a community partner.

Application Process

The first class of eight Faculty Engaged Scholars was selected in October 2007 to participate in learning about and pursuing community engagement through scholarly endeavor. The first year of the program is from January to December, 2008. It is a two-year program with a new cohort of at least five Scholars entering each year. The call for applications will be announced in spring 2008 with an application deadline of September 1, 2008. To be notified when the call for applications is announced, contact Lynn Blanchard, director of the Carolina Center for Public Service.