Professionally Related Public Service as Applied Scholarship: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Planning Faculty
Abstract
Reports Professionally Related Public Service as Applied Scholarship: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Planning Faculty Barry Checkoway In this paper, prepared in consultation with the Ad Hoc Committee on Assessing Service as Scholarship, I advocate a new approach to professionally related public service as applied scholarship for planning faculty. The committee conceptual- izes service as an activity that makes knowledge development more responsive to society in accordance with the highest standards of the academy. Service, like other forms of scholar- ship, should be documented and evaluated by standards equal to that for basic research and teaching. This paper provides specific suggestions for evaluation, and challenges the Associa- tion of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) to play a role in their implementation at the institutional level. * BACKGROUND In 1986, ACSP adopted a report on Guidelines on Evalua- tion ofPlanning Faculty for Promotion and Tenure. The report conveys concern that planning faculty differ from their counterparts in how they develop knowledge and educate students, that they are located in universities where faculty from other fields participate in their evaluation, and that they should be assessed according to standards in their own field. It argues that although the teaching activities