A lecture by Timothy Eatman, co-director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars In Public Life at Syracuse University, where he teaches courses on American Colleges and Universities and Understanding Educational Research. Eatman joined Syracuse University after a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. At Michigan, Eatman worked with the IA Consortium, which has since moved to Syracuse University. IA, a national consortium of academic and community institutions designed to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts and design is involved in a national research and policy project called the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship under Eatman’s direction. The research focuses on improving the rewards system in academe for faculty who practice engaged scholarship in the cultural disciplines.