ABSTRACT
Strong research universities have historically undervalued the scholarship and benefits derived from community-based pedagogy in architecture and planning curricula, with faculty members cautioned not to pin tenure and promotion hopes to outreach activities. The College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University and Auburn University as a whole recognize the value of outreach and have developed policies for rewarding meritorious outreach scholarship. Faculty members may specialize in outreach scholarship that generates new knowledge. The college still pays for all faculty from faculty lines, including one tenured member, codirector Andrew Freear, and two full-time visiting instructors and two part-time instructors. The university has provided minimal financial support to the Urban Studio. The final lesson is that institutional support for community-based architecture and planning is a value that a college or school has, or develops, and to which it remains true.
