Serve at Your Own Risk?: Service-Learning in the Promotion and Tenure Process

Authors

  • Jacquelyn Frank Eastern Illinois University
  • Mark Malaby Ball State University
  • Laura Raidonis Bates Indiana State University
  • Marcie Coulter-Kern Manchester College
  • Sheron Fraser-Burgess Ball State University
  • J.R. Jamison Indiana Campus Compact
  • Linda Stalker Prokopy Purdue University
  • Nathan A. Schaumleffel Indiana State University

Abstract

Pre-tenure faculty integrating service-learning into their professional roles are often uncertain about its position in the faculty reward system. This study gathered data from administrators at five institutions of higher education in Indiana to learn if and how service-learning is credited toward tenure and promotion at their institutions. The results point to the need for junior faculty members and administrators to be cautious when implementing and evaluating service-learning initiatives.

Author Biographies

Jacquelyn Frank, Eastern Illinois University

Jacquelyn Frank is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Gerontology Master’s Program at Eastern Illinois University. She incorporates service-learning into her undergraduate, graduate, and on-line courses and has served as a Faculty Fellow for Indiana Campus Compact and Illinois Campus Compact.

Mark Malaby, Ball State University

Mark Malaby is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University, in Muncie Indiana. His research focuses on masculine identity development in the context of violence and aggression, sports and medicine, and on social justice in schools and communities. His most recent work in Masculinities Studies concerns identity construction among elite and marginalized males in school and was published in the Summer 2009 edition of Gender and Education.

Laura Raidonis Bates, Indiana State University

Laura Raidonis Bates is associate professor of English at Indiana State University. Her service-learning work brings together her oncampus students and incarcerated students at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility.

Marcie Coulter-Kern, Manchester College

Marcie Coulter-Kern is an associate professor of psychology at Manchester College.  She incorporates service-learning into an undergraduate learning community that brings together writing, physics, and psychology.

Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Ball State University

Sheron Fraser-Burgess is an assistant professor of social foundations/multicultural education at Ball State University.  Her capstone educational foundations courses include a service-learning component of promoting family empowerment through full engagement with  the educational achievement of children.

J.R. Jamison, Indiana Campus Compact

J.R. Jamison is the Associate Director of Indiana Campus Compact (ICC), a higher education network of 45 campuses in Indiana devoted to integrating service-learning and civic engagement into campus culture.  He serves as Advisor to the ICC Faculty Fellows.

Linda Stalker Prokopy, Purdue University

Linda Stalker Prokopy is associate professor of Natural Resources Planning at Purdue University.  She incorporates service-learning into an undergraduate capstone course focused on natural resources planning and a graduate course on community involvement in natural resource management.

Nathan A. Schaumleffel, Indiana State University

Nathan A. Schaumleffel is associate professor of recreation and sport management and Campus/Executive Director of American Humanics at Indiana State University.  He incorporates service-learning across the recreation management and youth leadership curriculum through YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs, parks and recreation departments, and University Apartments. 

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Published

03/23/2011

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Insights, Case Studies, and Applications

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