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Navigating Service In Untenured Waters: What It Means To Be A Service-Learning Mentor, Mary Beth Schaefer, Tracy J. Cannova
Navigating Service In Untenured Waters: What It Means To Be A Service-Learning Mentor, Mary Beth Schaefer, Tracy J. Cannova
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This article describes how a university’s community service initiative helped facilitate a mentoring opportunity between a pharmacy student and an education professor. The professor takes up Boyer’s (1990) call to reconsider the priorities of the professoriate and addresses his question “What does it mean to be a scholar”? She explores her emerging identity as a scholar amid the competing obligations of the tenure track and applies a narrative form to relate and describe the service-learning study she undertook with the pharmacy student. She found that with institutional and collegial support, “service” can become personally and professionally transformative, offering benefits to …