The 2014-15 Ernest A. Lynton Request for Proposals: Research on Critical Issues in Advancing Community Engaged Scholarship

The 2014 Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of Engagement: The Next Generation of Engaged Scholarship: Make Your Voice Heard was held on September 15, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Hosted by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at Merrimack College, the Annual Lynton Colloquium launched a new research initiative aimed at studying key community engagement issues identified by a crowd-sourcing methodology and input from Colloquium Participants. Grounded in the work of NERCHE's Next Generation Engagement project and the CED's focus on academic programs in civic engagement, the Lynton Colloquium and subsequent RFP seek to foster sustained and systematic investigations that will support deeper understandings of and clearer actions around critical issues in advancing community engaged scholarship.

Research Priority Areas

The research is framed with the goal of identifying the current critical challenges of advancing community engaged scholarship and the collaborative identification of research priority areas.

The three research areas to emerge as priorities from the Colloquium are the following:

Structures of Inclusion: This includes questions of student diversity, faculty diversity, research methodologies, scholar identities, inequality regimes and structures of exclusion.  Respondents identified an interest in reframing these regimes and structures toward equality and inclusion

Leadership:

Includes ways in which academic administrators (Provosts, Deans, Chairs) create supportive institutional cultures for community-engaged scholars, as well as professional development for administrators to be effective and supportive (of community engaged faculty) community-engaged campus leaders.

Student Outcomes:

Includes civic learning outcomes as well as outcomes around persistence, retention, and success.

 Request for Proposals: http://www.engageddemocracy.org/2014-2015-ernest-a-lynton-request-for-research-proposals.html

 We are requesting proposals for research in any of the three research priorities areas. The Center for Engaged Democracy will support research in these areas through three research grants of up to $5,000 per research project. 

 A Request for Proposals (RFP) is available for download at the bottom of this page. Please submit your final RFP via http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1809925/2014-Lynton-Colloquium-RFRP