Category: Resources
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Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University
The Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative (TTI) was inspired by faculty members who want to do public scholarship and live to tell the tale. We propose concrete ways to remove obstacles to academic work carried out for and/or with the public by giving such work full standing as scholarship, research, or artistic creation. While we recommend…
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Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education
“By using the phrase “disrupting ourselves” in this article’s title, I am asserting that one key source of disruption in higher education is coming not from the outside but from our own practices, from the growing body of experiential modes of learning, moving from margin to center, and proving to be critical and powerful in…
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Evaluating the Publicly Engaged Work of Faculty: Ideas, Principles, and Practices
The New School for Public Engagement is dedicated to the integration of civic, liberal, and professional learning for the advancement of a just and plural society. Faculty and students in the division undertake a wide range of scholarly and creative practices that build new knowledge, solve pressing social problems, produce innovative forms of culture, and…
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Collaboratory Interim Report: Insights from a Community of Practice
The New School Collaboratory is a two-year research and design initiative launched formally in June 2013 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. It aims to enhance the University’s efforts to foster meaningful, communities and external partners in New York City. Through cross-cutting analysis of a set of partnership projects, the Collaboratory seeks to identify the…
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Research for Organizing Toolkit
Research is something that we all do on a daily basis. We observe patterns in our communities, ask questions of our neighbors, read articles and watch news about our city. We analyze the world around us and talk to our family and friends about what works and what doesn’t work. Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides…