Criteria for Review 2.9

The institution recognizes and promotes appropriate linkages among scholarship, teaching, student learning and service.

In its Values statement, CSU, Chico affirms

We promote active learning, curiosity, and a balance between the abstract and the applied, between the learning that occurs in our classrooms, studios, and laboratories, and that which occurs beyond, through clubs, service engagements, social interactions and other expressions of a full and healthy student environment.  The statement continues: We acknowledge not only the obligation of service, but also the value of service to others in defining institutional character and measuring institutional performance.

Links to Evidence and Related Topics

• Departmental Retention, Tenure, and Promotion (RTP) Guidelines demonstrate a valuing of; scholarship, teaching, and creative activity:
  • University Faculty Personnel Policies and Procedures (FPPP)
  • Sections of University FPPP relating to professional development / Faculty Leaves- Section 9.1
• Executive Memorandums (EMs):
  • Executive Memorandum 00-99: Policy and Procedures for Faculty Merit Increases (FMIs). August 10, 2000
  • Executive Memorandum 05-06: Revisions to Policy on Faculty Recognition and Support Committee
  • Executive Memorandum 95-23: Policy on Performance Salary Step Increases
• Official statements, newsletters, open letters to the campus community, highlighting that CSU, Chico actively recognizes and promotes appropriate linkages among scholarship, teaching, student learning and service.  
  • CSU, Chico Strategic Plan.  Strategic Priority # 2  
  • Policy on Faculty Recognition and Support Committee  
  • Provost Scott McNall (Archive 1998). The Scholarly Teacher
  • Provost Scott McNall (1999).  Cornerstones and Mosaics
  • Provost Scott McNall (2000). Too Many Things to Do: Aligning Goals, Rewards, and Standards
  • Academic Technologies Newsletter (spring 2002): Chico's Technology and Learning Programs (TLP)
• Service Learning Activities at CSU, Chico
• Student Internships
• Technology and Learning Program
• Student-Led Sustainability Conference: This Way to Sustainability