1st Edition

Making the Case for Professional Service

By Ernest A. Lynton Copyright 1995

    Professional service can be an intellectually challenging activity, as well as a critical element in fulfilling campus missions... if properly conceptualized, performed, evaluated, and rewarded. This book explains why professional service is needed, and how it can be documented and evaluated, with case study examples of five actual projects. A companion volume to "Making Outreach Visible".

    Foreword, Making the Case for "Making the Case", A Renewed Need for an Old Tradition , Institutional Benefits, What Is Professional Service? Professional Service as a Scholarly Activity, Making the Case: Five Case Studies: A project in the practice of public history; Geological field study guides; Ethics instruction in police academies; Improving a chemical manufacturing process; Assessment of an English language program for immigrants. Assessing the Case, An Action Agenda: Ten Questions for Departmental Discussion, A Final Word

    Biography

    Ernest A. Lynton has long and consistently advocated for greater attention to professional service. He is a Commonwealth Professor and senior associate of the New England Resource Centre for Higher Education of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. His work on this monograph was supported by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.