ABSTRACT

The lack of tradition and models for reviewing and evaluating professional service/out-reach scholarship leaves administrators on uncertain ground for their role in the decision-making processes of promotion and tenure. At the same time, administrators in higher education have the potential to increase the scope and impact of the service and outreach efforts of their faculty by acknowledging and addressing the issues that currendy make their administrative role in those contexts so precarious. In this chapter we intend to begin to identify those issues and concerns, and to make initial recommendations for addressing them.