Community Engagement Inventory |
Inventory of Faculty/Staff Community Engagement
Birmingham-Southern College, Spring 2017
Survey. This survey inventories current faculty and staff community engagement at BSC. The purpose of the inventory is to accurately record current community engagement activities, and determine interest in engaging in such activities.
Community Engagement. For this inventory, community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The purposes of such partnerships are to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good. (Source: Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, http://nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=341&Itemid=618)
Community Engagement. For this inventory, community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The purposes of such partnerships are to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good. (Source: Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, http://nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=341&Itemid=618)
Your Expertise. Report only those activities related to your disciplinary or professional expertise. (For example, if an accounting professor serves as a soccer coach, this would not be reported, but if the accounting professor handled the accounting function at a child care center, this would be reported.) Use your best judgment in determining what to report.
Western Area. We are interested in specific information about your community engagement activities, including those relevant to the Western Area Initiative. By Western Area Initiative, we refer to the areas adjacent to and within the geographical rectangle formed by the College, Princeton-Baptist Medical Center, the Birmingham CrossPlex, and Limbaugh Toyota in Ensley. Such boundaries are designed to provide focus for the initiative in its infancy, not for purposes of exclusion.
Purposes and Use. The purposes for the inventory are to benchmark the College’s current involvement in community engagement, identify interest in community engagement, and inform actions related to the Western Area Initiative and other experiential and community-based learning programs on campus. De-personalized aggregate data may be shared with the BSC community at large and/or with other external entities (e.g., granting or funding agencies). Personally identifiable data (data connected to you) will be verified with you prior to wide public presentation, although information will be shared with the Western Area Working Group and may be shared with senior staff. Requested data is similar to that included on a vitae or résumé. The survey is not anonymous and thus your privacy cannot be guaranteed.
Purposes and Use. The purposes for the inventory are to benchmark the College’s current involvement in community engagement, identify interest in community engagement, and inform actions related to the Western Area Initiative and other experiential and community-based learning programs on campus. De-personalized aggregate data may be shared with the BSC community at large and/or with other external entities (e.g., granting or funding agencies). Personally identifiable data (data connected to you) will be verified with you prior to wide public presentation, although information will be shared with the Western Area Working Group and may be shared with senior staff. Requested data is similar to that included on a vitae or résumé. The survey is not anonymous and thus your privacy cannot be guaranteed.
There is no expectation that individual respondents are engaged in the activities included in the survey.
IRB. The survey has received IRB approval [2017-01-002]. If you have questions or concerns regarding the protection of human subjects, please contact the primary investigator (Kent Andersen, kanderse@bsc.edu) or the IRB administrator (irb_chair@bsc.edu).
Sections. The inventory includes six sections:
I. Name, Disciplinary Expertise, and Professional Role
II. Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
III. Publicly Engaged Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity
IV. Individual Outreach Activities
V. Service on Boards, Committees, and Commissions
VI. Interests & Concluding Comments
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