Public health sciences sponsors free webinar

The Department of Public Health Sciences will sponsor a free brownbag webinar on community-engaged scholarship from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, May 27, in 408 Ahlberg Hall. The title of the webinar is "Faculty Rewards for Civic Engagement: Tools for Institutional Assessment and Change."

Faculty seeking tenure or promotion using community-engaged scholarship face the usual challenges of conducting rigorous work. But they face additional challenges concerning peer review (who are the appropriate peers?) and dissemination (which publication venues are meaningful?).

Cathy Burack from Brandeis University will facilitate this one-hour webinar exploring tools that campuses and faculty can use to assess faculty rewards processes and policies, and create action plans to support community-engaged scholarship.

Burack is a Senior Fellow for Higher Education at the Center for Youth and Communities in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She has served as an adviser to Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's Faculty for the Engaged Campus initiative and a member of the CCPH.