Comment on Question 3

How do faculty contribute to the college and the communities in which they participate?

  • Public engagement
    I hope the committee’s approach to “contributions to communities” will recognize faculty contributions to the elements of our mission most closely linked to public engagement: cultivating informed civic action and responsible stewardship. We do that in a wide variety of ways, that link to our teaching, scholarly and creative work, and governance work, and a…
  • Institutional governance
    One of the ways faculty contribute to the college is through our institutional governance work, which I would like to see more centrally recognized in our T&P processes. Given that many of us have tenure, we are in a position to advocate for some central aspects of the college’s mission in a different way than…