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Theatre & Dance Page 1 of 3 OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY THEATRE & DANCE DEPARTMENT STATEMENT ON SCHOLARSHIP Approved by the College Personnel Committee June 2009 I. Definition of Scholarship The Department of Theatre and Dance defines "scholarship" as knowledge gained by study and/or creative experience within one's field which culminates in an outcome to be shared with an audience, which may include an audience of peers and/or a lay audience. The department recognizes traditional forms of scholarship, such as publication of articles or books, and presentations at professional conferences, as outcomes shared with peers. But the department also recognizes participation in the creation of works of theatre art, where the knowledge is shared with a "lay" audience, as scholarship. In our field, it is the essential form. II. Standards for Decisions Affecting Tenure and Promotion A. Acceptable Activities that Qualify for Scholarship: B. Directing Producing Production & Stage Management Acting Designing scenery, costumes, lights, or sound Choreography Technical direction or production Playwriting Vocal, speech, dialect, and movement coaching Written reviews of productions at other institutions Dramaturgy Publishing (books, articles, Instructional CD’s, original design work, technical research and application to problem-solving, craft solutions for the theatre) Requirements: 1. Interim Tenure Review: Two submitted examples from activities listed above, at least one of which ne example must be externally peer reviewed. Creative work done at a comparable institution or a professional theatre or a corporate business theatre event constitutes external peer review. Otherwise a qualified evaluator PC approved 2008-09 Theatre & Dance Page 2 of 3 from one of these institutions will be brought in by the college to review “in house” creative work done as part of the public theatre season here at Otterbein College PC approved 2008-09 Theatre & Dance Page 3 of 3 2. Tenure Decision and/or Promotion to Associate Professor: At least three additional submitted examples from activities listed above after the interim tenure review, at least one of which must be externally peer reviewed as defined under Interim Tenure Review 3. Promotion to Full Professor: At least four additional submitted examples from the activities listed above, completed since tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, at least two of which must be externally peer reviewed. Of these two, one or both examples must be an external production credit where the candidate has been invited by another respected institution, professional theatre, or corporation to employ a creative production skill from the list of acceptable activities above 4. Post Tenure Expectations: One example every five years of an external peer-reviewed scholarship/creative activity. This could include creative production work or various forms of publication work in respected journals, etc. as listed above C. Documentation Documentation of scholarship activity in theatre productions can include: • Scenery, costume, light, or sound plots • Renderings • Prompt scripts • Production photographs • Programs • Newspaper reviews • Letters from other participants It should be noted that Theatre is an ephemeral art form. Unlike other fields, where the documentation is the scholarship--an article, a book, a painting--in our field, the artwork exists at a moment in spacetime, and then is gone. It is not replicable. The documentation above is, therefore, either a small piece of the creative process, or someone's reaction to the production. For off-campus work at a professional theatre or another university, the act of being hired shall be considered prima facie evidence of peer review. That is, a positive professional judgement of the quality of the faculty member’s prior work has been made. The only documentation required is a letter from the artistic director, managing director or department chair, as appropriate, confirming that the faculty member was contracted for a specific theatre assignment and carried out his or her duties successfully and professionally. No additional outside peer evaluator is required. PC approved 2008-09