Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure

Examples from Canadian Post-Secondary

Thank you for attending the Partnering in Research workshop on May 24, 2024 by Dr. Emily Janke, Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement (ICEE) and Professor in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Please see below two sets of resources for your reference.

Federal Research Funding Resources

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Centre for the Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Inclusion of Engaged Scholarship in Canadian P&T Guidelines

University of Victoria

Evaluation of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (Research Stream): 25.16 Research, scholarship and creative activity (“Research”) means continuing mastery of one’s field of knowledge and the awareness of current scholarship in one’s own and closely related fields, and the nature, quality, and extent of one’s research, scholarship and creative activity as described in the FEP and Unit Standard applicable to the Faculty Member.

25.16.1 Research includes but is not limited to disciplinary research, discipline based education research, clinical research, and community-engaged research.

25.17 Research will be evaluated, in accordance with the FEP and Unit Standard, in all possible manifestations and may include, but is not limited to, the following: documented activities, outputs and impact, related to community-engaged Scholarship, including the development of long-term relationships with communities;

https://www.uvic.ca/vpacademic/_assets/docs/collective-agreement.pdf

University of Saskatchewan

“Research and Scholarly Work. A Special Increase may be awarded to an employee for excellence in the following types of research and scholarly work:

(i) Publication. Publication, or receipt of a letter accepting a finished manuscript for publication, are grounds for recommending an employee for a Special Increase. The size of the Special Increase should reflect the amount of time necessary to produce the publication, as well as the academic merit of the work.

(ii) Unpublished Work. Unpublished research or scholarly work are grounds for recommending an employee for a Special Increase if it is established that the work has academic merit and that there is no appropriate publication outlet for a particular subject matter, or that the work is of a kind that may not normally lead to peer-reviewed publication, such as engineering design, software, patentable inventions or certain types of impactful community engaged and culturally sensitive research and scholarly work.

(iii) Artistic Work. Artistic creations and performances are grounds for recommending an employee for a Special Increase, where this is appropriate to a discipline.”

https://usaskfaculty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2017-2022-Collective-Agreement.pdf#page=13

Simon Fraser University

Scholarly Activity 28.16 

Research achievement is of fundamental importance in the evaluation of the performance of a faculty member. The nature of research achievement will vary by discipline. Consideration should be given to evidence of scholarship reflected in the ability of the faculty member to have their research published or otherwise subjected to appropriate peer evaluation. In judging research, emphasis must be placed on quality as well as quantity. Consideration should be given to the particular conditions of community-engaged research and knowledge-mobilization activities. Consideration should also be given to recognition by national and international professional societies and granting agencies, and special recognition by such societies, agencies, or other universities should be noted.


Criteria for Assessing Teaching:

28.10 Departments will establish criteria by which teaching will be evaluated, and these criteria will be approved by the Dean. In addition to the University expectations (Article 28.5), Departmental criteria may include:

28.10.6 demonstration of innovation, including research-enriched or community-engaged teaching;

https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/faculty-relations/collective-agreement/CA2019_2022.pdf