Research & Resources

This page will feature peer-reviewed research and recent articles relevant to the issues playing out across higher education in the realm of service and engagement. 

Some of this material may be recommended for pre-reading and preparation ahead of the summit. 

• Know your institution, college, department Promotion & Tenure requirements and other institutional specific processes

• Why we need a national conversation on the value of faculty service (opinion, Farrell & Flowers)

• Academe needs to better evaluate engaged scholarship (opinion, O'Meara)

• How to make faculty service demands more equitable (opinion, O'Meara)

• Understanding Measures of Faculty Impact and the Role of Engineering Societies (National Academy of Engineering)

• Social Science Research on Faculty Workload, Gender and Race (compiled by Dr. KerryAnn O'Meara)

• Instructors Spend ‘Emotional Labor’ in Diversity Courses, and Deserve Credit for It (The Chronicle, November 15, 2018)

• The Impact of Faculty Work-Life Factors on Faculty Service Morale (Sheets, Barnhardt, Phillips, Valdes, 2018)

• Undoing disparities in faculty workloads: A randomized trial experiment (O’Meara, Jaeger, Misra, Lennartz, Kuvaeva, 2018)

To recommend a resource, contact mjl410@lehigh.edu.