Perceptions of Faculty and Administration on the Value of Service-Learning in the Tenure and Promotion Process at a Public Midwestern University

This qualitative study examines the perceptions of faculty and administration of the value of service-learning in the promotion and tenure process at Minnesota State University, Mankato, a midsized, Midwestern public university. The study aims to determine the answers to three main questions: what barriers and logistical issues do faculty face? Is the scholarship of community-engagement recognized and considered equal to other forms of traditional scholarship? Does MSU, Mankato value service-learning in the promotion and tenure process? The researcher employed a phenomenological study to answer the research questions. He used semi-structured interviews of ten participants – nine full-time tenure-track faculty who utilize service-learning as a teaching method, and a dean who supervises community-engaged faculty. The main themes identified in the interviews showed that the community-engaged faculty face many barriers to implementing service-learning programs. These barriers include difficulty in finding community partners, too much additional work, and lack of support from the university. Community-engaged scholarship is not valued and recognized as much as the faculty participants would like for it to be, and service-learning is not valued as much as more traditional forms of scholarship in the tenure and promotion process

Voices from the Past: Slave Narratives

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of slave narratives. Contains: Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave by Isaac Mason; The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by Wilbur H. Siebert; Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward; Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown; The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince; Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House by Harriet E. Wilson; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs; Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington; The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African by Olaudah Equiano; Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley; Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas

18th-20th Century British Literature

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of 18th-20th Century British Literature. Contains Persuasion by Jane Austen; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; Lady Audley’s Secret by M.E. Braddon; Middlemarch by George Eliot; A Passage to India by E.M. Forster; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Pamela by Samuel Richardson; Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Modern Political Philosophy

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Modern Political Philosophy. Contains Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli; The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx ; On the Jewish Question by Karl Marx Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx; The German Ideology by Karl Marx; Capital by Karl Marx ; Second Treatise of Government by John Locke; The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsch

Gender in Literature

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of the Gender Roles portrayed in Literature. Contains Anna Lombard by Victoria Cross; The Beth Book by Sarah Grand; King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat; The Beetle by Richard March; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Anicient and Medieval Political Philosophy. Contains Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles; The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; The Republic by Plato Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato; Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle; The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius; Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavell

Shakespeare

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Shakespeare. Contains The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Philosophy of Economics

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Philosophy in Economics. Contains An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Books I-V) by Adam Smith

History of Philosophy

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of the History of Philosophy. Contains Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Five Dialogues by Plato, Republic by Plat

Animals and Literature

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Animals and Literature. Contains Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells