DESCRIPTION OF THE LYNTON AWARD
Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at Merrimack College, the annual
Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.
Community engagement describes the collaboration between faculty and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
--Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
This year’s award will be presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), “A Love of PlaceL the Metropolitan Advantage,” which will be held from October 11-13, 2015 in Omaha, Nebraska. CUMU is a co-sponsor of the Award.
The 2015 award recipient will also be honored at the annual Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of Engagement, which will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2015, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. For information and updates about this event, please visit NERCHE’s website: www.nerche.org.
Application Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2015, at 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)