title: Promotion and tenure for community-engaged research: an examination of promotion and tenure support for community-engaged research at three universities collaborating through a Clinical and Translational Science Award.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Community-engaged health research, an approach to research which includes the participation of communities, promotes the translation of research to address and improve social determinants of health. As a way to encourage community-engaged research, the National Institutes of Health required applicants to the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) to include a community engagement component. Although grant-funding may support an increase in community-engaged research, faculties also respond to the rewards and demands of university promotion and tenure standards. This paper measures faculty perception of how three institutions funded by a CTSA support community-engaged research in the promotion and tenure process.
  
  
  METHODS
  At three institutions funded by a CTSA, tenure track and nontenure track faculty responded to a survey regarding perceptions of how promotion and tenure committees value community-engaged research.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Faculty view support for community-engaged research with some reserve. Only 36% agree that community-engaged research is valued in the promotion and tenure process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Encouraging community-engaged scholarship requires changing the culture and values behind promotion and tenure decisions. Institutions will increase community-engaged research and more faculty will adopt its principles, when it is rewarded by promotion and tenure committees.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. dgmarrer@iupui.edu
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Marrero
authors.forename: Emily J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Hardwick
authors.forename: Lisa K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Staten
authors.forename: Dennis A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Savaiano
authors.forename: Jere D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Odell
authors.forename: Karen Frederickson
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Comer
authors.forename: Chandan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saha
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002322:Career Mobility; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014495:Universities