"Communities Don't Want Us to Roll In and Roll Out":  Beyond the Baseline to Sustainable and Mutually Beneficial University-Community Partnerships for Societal Impacts.

Abstract

This article features a case study conducted by University of Oklahoma’s Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) of faculty National Science Foundation CAREER research grant proposals. Specifically, of interest to us is how the Broader Impacts sections of our faculty’s applications might be strengthened with the help of the Advancing Research in Society (ARIS) rubric. We are also concerned with key principles of community engagement and how the ARIS rubric can lead faculty to develop mutually beneficial collaborations that increase community capacity and science literacy. Our study is described in the larger context of our mission and work at CFE and the nationwide imperative to orient higher education and research toward a larger societal good.

Keywords

• community engagement
• faculty development
• broader impacts
• higher education