The final report, "Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University," has been released by Imagining America. "Publicly engaged academic work is taking hold in American colleges and universities," say authors Julie Ellison and Timothy K. Eatman, "but tenure and promotion policies lag behind public scholarly and creative work and discourage faculty from doing it." The report proposes giving such work full standing as scholarship, research or artistic creation, as well as "enlarging the conception of who counts as 'peer' and what counts as 'publication.'” These changes are "part of something bigger: the democratization of knowledge on and off campus." IA says the report is a toolkit for faculty, staff and students to "create enabling settings for doing and reviewing intellectually rigorous public work." Download it from the IA Web site. [LINK]