Public Scholarship Faculty Learning Community

IU Indianapolis defines public scholarship as an intellectually and methodologically rigorous endeavor that is responsive to public audiences and public peer review. It is scholarly work that advances one or more academic disciplines by emphasizing co-production of knowledge with community stakeholders.

The PSFLC has developed resource materials to support candidates, review committees, faculty administrators, and external reviewers in planning for, interpreting, and evaluating excellence in publicly engaged scholarship.

In addition, the PSFLC has also been an avenue to:

• Convene, celebrate, and capture stories of public scholars across the disciplines
• Make recommendations on campus policy and P&T guidelines relevant to public scholarship
• Explore and leverage digital scholarship as a means to document public scholarship
• Host events to increase awareness of and the networks for public scholarship
• Make scholarly presentations on the process and products generated by the PSFLC

The PSFLC was able to secure a fourth year of support to continue its work through the spring of 2019. Several of the resources developed by the PSFLC are available in the accordions below. 

• David Craig, Department of Religious Studies (2015–2016)
• Charles Goodlett, Department of Psychology (2016–2019)
• Raymond Haberski, American Studies Program (2016–2019) (co-chair)
• Julie Hatcher, Center for Service and Learning (2015–2018)
• Youngbok Hong, Herron School of Art and Design (2015–2019)
• Jason Kelly, Department of History and IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) Arts and Humanities Institute (2015–2016)
• Kristi Palmer, University Library (2015–2018)
• Mary Price, Center for Service and Learning (2015–2019)
• Ross Silverman, Fairbanks School of Public Health  (2015–2019)
• Kathleen Stanton-Nichols, Department of Physical Education (2015–2019) (co-chair)
• Elee Wood, Museum Studies Program (2015–2018)