The Future of Public Scholarship
Keywords:
Public scholarship, tenure guidelines, merit policies, graduate educationAbstract
Reflecting on the contributions to this special issue and her own experiences with producing public scholarship, running an organization that provides training and mentoring for scholars interested in public scholarship (Sacred Writes), and advocating for ‘counting’ public engagement with the academy, Bucar offers practical ideas for how to create structural changes in the higher education to support this work.
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