Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #113283

Diane C. Calleson, PhD, Public Health Leadership Program School of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB#7595, Department of Family Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, 919-843-2284, calleson@med.unc.edu, Sarena D. Seifer, MD, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809, and Jen Kauper-Brown, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809.

Since Ernest Boyer's landmark 1990 report, leaders in higher education, especially schools of public health, have advocated that faculty members apply their expertise in new and creative ways in partnership with communities. The Institute of Medicine's November 2003 Report, Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?, endorsed Boyer's work. It recommends that academic institutions develop criteria for recognizing and rewarding faculty scholarship that strengthens public health practice and that the National Institutes of Health increase the proportion of its budget allocated to population- and community-based prevention research.

Despite the increasing support of community-engaged scholarship from national commissions and governing bodies, faculty still face challenges in gaining promotion and/or tenure. An important strategy is for faculty to successfully navigate the current promotion and tenure system by creating strong and well-documented portfolios.

This presentation describes an innovative nationally peer-reviewed, online toolkit developed from an educational study involving interviews with faculty, relevant literature and a detailed review of the faculty member's portfolio. We present strategies, resources and examples for preparing a strong career statement, curriculum vitae, teaching portfolio, and supporting letters from external peer reviewers and community partners. This toolkit focuses on continuous improvement, including regular involvement of national experts and ongoing evaluation. We will present year one of our evaluation findings, focused on it's usability and applicability for faculty preparing for promotion and tenure. The toolkit is supported by grants from the WK Kellogg Foundation and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in the US Department of Education.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply strategies for preparing a strong career statement, curriculum vitae, teaching portfolio, and letters from external peers reviewers and community partners.
• Identify at least three ways to incorporate the toolkit into a school’s faculty development program.
• Discuss how the toolkit has been evaluated as an applied product and how we are using this information to improve its effectiveness.

Keywords: Practice, Practice-Based Research

Related Web page: ccph.info

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.