Achieving Teaching, Scholarship, and Service through Community Engagement

An Analysis of Community Pharmacy Shared Faculty Members' Contributions to Teaching, Service, and Scholarship.

Objective. To identify community pharmacy shared faculty members across the United States and to describe their roles and responsibilities in terms of teaching, service, and scholarship. Methods. This study was a mixed-methods analysis using surveys and key informant interviews. Results. Twenty-two faculty members completed the survey; nine were interviewed. Their major roles and responsibiliti...

LEVEL X: ECO-QUEST "Achieving Sustainability, Civic Engagement and Community Planning Goals through Digital Gaming"

Digital gaming technologies are increasing in popularity and sophistication. Scholars and social scientists have documented this new medium as a model of collaborative learning and cognitive development. The measured benefits of gaming, coupled with, the infinite combination of outcomes, makes the correlation of gaming and real world problem-solving of critical importance. Increased use of digi...

Community Engagement through Social Media

Community engagement, i.e., attracting eyeballs of citizens to focus on their civic government and its functioning is a vital aspect in nurturing healthy democracy at the local level, in both developed and developing countries. This paper looks into specific instances such as graffiti reporting through social media (in a developed country), collaborative focus on local community infrastructure ...

Scholarship of Teaching

To answer our questions, we looked at existing administrative documentation and practices. We also looked at similar questions and answers from other campuses, particularly those generated in the context of the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching’s "Scholarship Revisited" projects. Also, we asked each academic department at Cal Poly to engage in collegial discussion about the scholarship of teachi...

Partners In Pedagogy: Faculty Development Through the Scholarship of Teaching