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Call for papers for the new national journal to be published by Missouri Campus Compact: The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education. The deadline for manuscripts is February 1, 2011 (the print journal will appear August/September 2011). Cross-disciplinary and peer-reviewed, the journal seeks to advance the status and ongoing prospects for community-engaged scholarship in the academy. More specifically, the editors are interested in accounts of how community-engaged scholarship affects the faculty member’s disciplinary knowledge and pedagogical practice–and the implications of this learning for broad institutional issues like faculty development, tenure and promotion processes, graduate education, etc. In addition to accounts of community-engaged research and teaching, the editors also welcome position papers and theoretical explorations of engaged scholarship. Authors are invited to contact the editors with ideas and to dialogue about manuscripts-in-development.

Call for Papers, Volume One

The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education

The full promise of public scholarship will come… when we have disseminated a commitment to the intellectual generativity of civic engagement across the whole domain of Boyer’s “scholarship of inquiry,” making knowledge about the world in new ways by making it for and with public collaborators.

“Making Use of All Our Faculties: Public Scholarship and the Future of Campus Compact” by David Scobey

The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education features public scholarship—that is, academic inquiry that forms community partnerships to address shared problems, issues, and opportunities. This kind of scholarship—what many think of as Boyer’s “scholarship of engagement”—involves the community in reciprocal relationships with the university; however, it also serves to discover and disseminate new disciplinary knowledge and/or pedagogical practice.

This cross-disciplinary journal provides a forum for scholars to share examples of academic service-learning projects that demonstrate a high level of engagement and reciprocity with the community at the same time as they demonstrate scholarly inquiry. The journal welcomes diverse manuscripts, from empirically-based examinations to critical reflection pieces, theoretical investigations, commentaries, case studies, and pedagogical and research designs. Regardless of methodology, submissions should describe the outcomes of the project on both academic (institution, faculty, student and/or discipline) and community stakeholders. All submissions should also address implications for promoting public scholarship as a rigorous form of scholarly work.

By providing an academic, refereed venue for such work, Missouri Campus Compact aims to advance the status of public scholarship. For more information about Campus Compact’s commitment to engaged scholars click here.

For more information on the call for papers, download this pdf.