Thursday, June 6, 2024 | 9am-1pm
The Broom Fellow for Public Scholarship, Professor Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, and the Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) invite the Carleton community to the Day of Public Scholarship.
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 9am–1pm in the Weitz Center for Creativity, room 236 (Larson Family Meeting Room), Carleton College
Agenda
8:45 am: Coffee, fruit, and pastries available
9:00 – 9:25 am: Welcome & Introductions
9:25 – 10:25 Keynote: Elaine Ward
10:25 – 10:30 Break
10:30-12:00: Hands-on workshop
12:00 – 12:15: Closing remarks
12:15 – 1:00: Lunch
Keynote speaker
Elaine Ward, Associate Professor of Higher Education at Merrimack College
Dr. Elaine Ward will give the talk “Advancing Publicly Engaged Scholarship in Our Research and on Our Campuses.” Ward, a field leader in public scholarship and community-engaged teaching, will also offer individual, one-to-one faculty consultations following the program. She has 24 years of experience working in higher education in the US and Europe. Currently, Dr. Ward is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Winston School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College. Dr. Ward is coordinator for the American Council on Education’s Carnegie Elective Classifications Research Lab.
Over the years, Dr. Ward has served as a research fellow at the Higher Education Policy Research Unit, Technological University Dublin; the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE); Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service; the National University of Ireland, Galway; and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Currently, Dr. Ward is an Equity and Engagement Fellow at Campus Compact, a Scholar in Residence at the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and a Senior Research Advisor, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez y Dirección de Innovación, Creación y Emprendimiento, Chile.
Dr. Ward has served as coordinator for the National Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, and chair of the annual Lynton Colloquium; and was a board member and conference chair for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. Dr. Ward co-led the first international pilot of the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement in Ireland, has consulted with campuses nationally and internationally on the community engagement classification and successfully championed her own institution’s application for the community engagement designation.
Prior to her 2023-2024 research leave, Dr. Ward served as chair of the department of higher education, and as special assistant to the president for civic and community engagement. Dr. Ward previously worked at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as the director of the office of student services and head of the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment.
Dr. Ward is a past guest editor for the Metropolitan Universities Journal special issue Legacy Lived: A Generation of Ernest A. Lynton Award Recipients Advancing Community-Engaged Scholarship and Institutional Change, and is co-editor of the books Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education, and Anti-racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices.
A Call for Public Scholars
What do we mean by “public scholarship” at Carleton? How public is our scholarship?
Join fellow Carleton faculty and two visiting engaged scholars on Thursday, June 6, 2024, for this interactive half-day workshop of collective reflection and shared learning.
Some questions that we will collectively consider are:
- What does the concept of ‘public scholar’ mean for each attendee and in the context of Carleton?
- How can the office for which I work support the practice of public scholars? Do I consider myself a public scholar?
- What are some of the tensions, contradictions, or challenges we experience when linking our job to this practice?
- What resources are necessary to carry out the work of public scholars?
- What assessment tools do we have to evaluate the work that public scholars do in our departments/campus?
- How do we prepare our students to understand what the work of a public scholar entails?
- Does our public scholarship inform our teaching or vice versa?
- In what ways can we prepare our students to become public scholars?
This event is intended for faculty and academic support staff interested in learning more about public scholarship practices and deepening the growing community of those engaged in this work at Carleton. This is also a space for those interested in the ways public scholarship can advance more just, humane higher education systems for those who work and learn within them. Experience conducting public scholarship is not required. All are welcome.
Schedule for the day:
8:45 am: Coffee, fruit, and pastries available
9:00 – 9:25 am: Welcome & Introductions
9:25 – 10:25 Keynote: Elaine Ward
10:25 – 10:30 Break
10:30-12:00: Hands-on workshop
12:00 – 12:15: Closing remarks
12:15 – 1:00: Lunch
Contact Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, palvarez@carleton.edu, with questions.
Broom Fellow for Public Scholarship
Palmar Alvarez-Blanco
Weitz Center for Creativity 225B
(507) 222-4246
palvarez@carleton.edu