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Creditable Civic Engagement? Aligning Work on Civic Activity with Faculty Incentives

activities are based in political science insights to create meaningful student-learning experiences. If the discipline is concerned about the long-term health of America’s democracy, teaching civic engagement should not depend on individual faculty members’ goodwill and intrinsic motivations. They should be rewarded through the faculty-evaluation process. How do we get there from here? First, I recommend that APSA leadership continue to promote civic engagement as a disciplinary priority and to develop best practices, rewards, and recognition for departments to use to integrate Boyer’s typology generally and civic engagement work specifically into their tenure and promotion documents. Second, I urge senior faculty and department chairs to critically examine their department and/or institutional tenure and promotion documents to fully integrate Boyer’s typology. This should not be only for faculty involved with civic engagement but also for those who are engaged in SoTL or the scholarships of integration and application in other fields. Third, I recommend that members of the APSA Civic Engagement Section share and develop resources such as tips and best practices to help faculty—especially junior faculty—to integrate civic engagement work into a research agenda.▪