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Hiram Fitzgerald of Michigan State University (left), answers a question at the Dec. 1 forum on the scholarship of engagement, as John Laird, physics and astronomy, and Radhika Gajjala, communication studies, look on.

Faculty debate aspects of engagement

“Engaged” was the operative word Dec. 1 when BGSU faculty and staff met to discuss how the University can serve the needs of the state and society while preserving the identity and integrity of the academy.

President Sidney Ribeau hosted a forum with invited guest Hiram Fitzgerald, assistant provost for university outreach and engagement at Michigan State University and a national leader on issues related to the implementation of the scholarship of engagement. Fitzgerald spent the day meeting with administrators and campus faculty leaders to relate what MSU is doing and discuss BGSU’s efforts. His forum presentation was titled “Advancing Knowledge to Serve Society: Scholarship-Focused Outreach and Engagement” and dealt primarily with community-based scholarship.

About 60 faculty and staff members participated in the forum to begin to respond to the call by legislators for higher education to justify its subsidization by providing tangible service to society. As Ribeau told the gathering, “The academy has come to a new juncture where we’re being asked to look at things in a different way from in the past. We have an opportunity—a mandate, in fact—to use our intellectual capital in new ways and to answer the question ‘How does what you do serve the greater good of society? If we’re going to fund you, how do you legitimize that?’ And how do we integrate that into teaching, learning and service?"

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