Generously sponsored by the Charlotte Research Institute, as well as the UNC Charlotte Campus Compact and Civic
Engagement Interest Group, the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, and the Center for Teaching and Learning
Engaged Scholarship and
Community Partnership
Symposium
April 23-24, 2015
Cone Center
UNC Charlotte
Welcome
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to our inaugural symposium on Engaged Scholarship and Community Partnership. Research, scholarship and
creative works are fundamental to the mission of UNC Charlotte. They change the world and shape the future of the
University.
UNC Charlotte has a long and fruitful history of engaged scholarship and community partnership. Faculty build their
careers on research and engagement that is highly connected with local partners. At the University level, our policies
explicitly recognize engaged scholarship for consideration in tenure and promotion. Community engaged teaching offers
unique opportunities for our students in service learning, community scholarship, and global engagement. The centers and
institutes at UNC Charlotte offer many possibilities for creative collaboration.
Our partners, locally and globally, are key to the success of engaged scholarship. Many will be participating in the
symposium. We thank them for their dedication and commitment. Engaged scholarship directly impacts our community,
our state, and the world around us. The symposium will highlight some of the best practices for community engagement.
Building on these results, we look forward to new collaborations that span disciplines, divisions, and fields.
May you share many good ideas during the symposium today!
Robert G. Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development;
Executive Director, Charlotte Research Institute; and,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
Symposium Organizers
Tamara Johnson, Provost’s Office
Susan Harden, Education
Kim Buch, Psychology
List of Participants--Thursday
Session Presenters
Session Panelists
Kim Buch, Psychology
Jim Cook, Psychology
Susan Harden, Education
Tamara Johnson, Provost’s Office
Carrie Silver, University Professional
Internship Program
Heather Smith, Geography
Robert Arnold, Honors College
Jim Currie, PORTAL
Liz Fitzgerald, University College
Marsha Hirsch, Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency
Kimberly Kuhn and Kelly Mannes, Office of Education Abroad
Sean Langley, Dean of Students Office
Terre Lucas, Building Educational Strengths and Talents (BEST)
Lisa Merriweather, Educational Leadership
Diana Rowan, Social Work
Jeanette Sims, Community Relations, Events & Special Projects
Brett Tempest, Civil and Environmental Engineering
List of Participants--Friday
Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship
Showcase Participants
Aayla Alexander
Erica Alford
Robert F. Arnold, III
Jessica Beavers
Sayde J. Brais
Joyce Brigman
Katie Brown
Kim Buch
Nija Burnette
Justin Cobb
Heather Coffey
Kiara Cokely
Nakiel Coleman
Tre’Sean Cooks
Maureen Doran
Jessica Eudy
Thomas Fisher
Paul Fitchett
Alan R. Freitag
Owen Furuseth
Cynthia Hancock
Laura Handler
Susan Harden
Angel Hjarding
Joe Howarth
Trena Ijames-Scott
Elena King
Sean Langley
Othelia E. Lee
M. Terre Lucas
Laneshia McCord
Elizabeth McDowell
Chelsea Mitchell
Louise Murray
Cache Owens
Susanna Pantas
Robin Rothberg
Emmitt Scott
Janni Sorensen
Jeremy Vargas
JoEl Walker
Daniel Whitmire
Engaged Centers and Institutes
Panel Participants
John Cox, Center for Holocaust, Genocide,
and Human Rights
Jim Currie, Partnership, Outreach, and
Research to Accelerate Learning (PORTAL)
Amy Hahn Nelson, Institute for Social Capital
Jeffrey Leak, Center for the Study of the New
South
Victor Mack, Office of Educational Outreach
Mark Sanders, Center for Professional and
Applied Ethics
David Young and David Causey, Energy
Production & Infrastructure Center (EPIC)
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Lucas Room
9am-10:30am -- Tenure and Promotion
In 2012, the Faculty Council moved to revise UNC Charlotte’s tenure and promotion guidelines in the Academic Personnel
Procedures Handbook to reflect the University’s commitment to community engaged scholarship, teaching, and public service.
This new language allows community-based research conducted with local partners to qualify as scholarship for tenure and
promotion purposes at the institutional level. This session will discuss the value of community engaged scholarship, and explore
how specific changes have been implemented to recognize community-engaged scholarship at the college level.
Session Presenters: Jim Cook and Heather Smith, Recipients, Provost’s Faculty Award for Community Engagement
10:30am-12:00pm -- Engaged Scholarship 101 and Collective Impact
This session will define and make the case for engaged scholarship. What can engaged scholarship do for your career? What are
resources to support engaged scholarship and avenues for publication and dissemination? Collective Impact brings stakeholders
together in an accountable way to foster shared community vision, evidence-based decision making, collaborative action, and
investment and sustainability. How can Collective Impact practices be creatively implemented across campus?
Session Presenters: Susan Harden and Carrie Silver
12pm-12:45pm -- Networking lunch
12:45pm-2pm -- Community Engaged Teaching
This session will discuss best practices in community-engaged teaching and learning including syllabus and curriculum design,
articulating and assessing student learning outcomes. A panel of experts from across colleges and divisions will discuss creative
approaches to service-learning and engaged teaching.
Session Presenter: Kim Buch
Faculty/Staff panel: Liz Fitzgerald, Sean Langley, Robert Arnold, Brett Tempest, Lisa Merriweather
2pm-3:15pm -- Global Community Engagement
Global Community Engagement combines learning outcomes associated with both international education and servicelearning activities. Given the growing popularity of short-term study abroad programs, this session explores the ethics,
challenges, and best practices of global community engagement abroad as well as in a local Charlotte context.
Session Presenter: Tamara Johnson
Faculty/Staff/Student Panel: Terre Lucas, Diana Rowan, Kimberly Kuhn, Kelly Mannes, Marsha Hirsch
3:15pm-4:30pm -- Outreach and Engagement Staff
This workshop provides specialized professional development for practitioners and administrators of community-university
partnerships. This workshop will build capacity through network and community-of-practice development, orient and train staff
on current research and best practices in outreach and engagement, and encourage high-quality practice through professional
reflection and goal setting.
Session Presenter: Susan Harden
Staff Panel: Jeanette Sims, Jim Currie
Friday, April 24, 2015
Lucas Room
9am-11am -- Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship Showcase
The Showcase will feature poster presentations that share case studies, best practices, lessons learned, and innovations in the use
of service learning as a teaching and learning pedagogy.
11am-12:30pm -- Engaged Centers and Institutes Panel
The panel will feature presentations from some of UNC Charlotte’s centers and institutes. What does each center do? How
are they engaged with community partners? What are the possibilities for creative collaboration with each center/institute?
Participating centers and institutes include:
• Center for Professional and Applied Ethics
• Center for the Study of the New South
• Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
• EPIC
• Office of Educational Outreach
• PORTAL
12:30-1pm -- Networking Lunch
1pm-2pm -- Community Partner focus groups
Welcome remarks by Bob Wilhelm, Charlotte Research Institute
A diverse group of community partners will be convened for an engaging peer-to-peer conversation in the format of a fishbowl.
Come hear the reflections and feedback of our community partners as they explore the strengths and areas of growth in our
relationships with the University.
2pm-3pm -- Student focus groups
Similar to the community partner focus group, students are invited to discuss their community engagement and service-learning
experiences offered through UNC Charlotte.
Notes
Special thanks to our sponsors and participating community partners:
UNC Charlotte
Center for Teaching
and Learning
Join the UNC Charlotte Campus Compact & Civic Engagement Interest Group!
The UNC Charlotte Campus Compact & Civic Engagement Interest Group for faculty and staff is committed to
incorporating community and public service into their work. If you are interested in joining, email Dr. Tamara Johnson at
[email protected].
NC Campus Compact is a coalition of colleges and universities collaborating to increase campus-wide participation in
community and public service. Presidents commit their institutions to join with other schools in becoming “engaged
campuses” that enhance students’ sense of responsibility, citizenship, leadership, and awareness of community, while
reinvigorating higher education’s concern for improving the quality of life
in North Carolina. NC Campus Compact is a member of National Campus
Compact, which has nearly 1,100 presidential members, and 34 state offices.
Partner. Pioneer. Progress.
These three words underscore UNC Charlotte’s long and fruitful history of engaged
scholarship and community and industry partnership. Our exceptional faculty and
students are helping industry, government, and community partners solve problems
and discover breakthroughs across a wide spectrum of fields including energy
production, cancer research, data science and business analytics, health informatics, and precision metrology, to name just a few. Through shared research and
engaged scholarship we spark innovation and stimulate creative collaboration on a
regional, national, and global level.
Discover the power of our academic talent, state-of-the-art facilities, and research
capabilities at UNC Charlotte. Let’s pioneer together.
Discover more at cri.uncc.edu.