In 2023, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published the Public Engagement Research Option (PERO) for Promotion and Tenure. The PERO guidelines reflect a sustained, multiyear effort which involved a tremendous amount of thought, collaboration, and effort from faculty and staff. Although PERO is new to the university, publicly engaged research is not new. Since the inception of the University of Illinois, our faculty have been conducting publicly engaged research, and below you will find vignettes of our esteemed faculty who conduct publicly engaged research. These faculty showcase the diverse disciplines across our campus who, although different, all conduct important research in partnership with the community.

Each vignette is aligned with the PERO guidelines. Specifically, for each faculty member, you will learn the way in which they address a societal problem to contribute to the public good; produce traditional and non-traditional outputs; collaborate with communities or organizations; engage in a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources with community partners; and perceive their societal impact. At the end of each vignette, you will find resources about the faculty member so you can learn more about their scholarship. Because PERO is new, none of the featured faculty in the vignettes pursued PERO. Yet, we are confident that they provide exemplary examples of publicly engaged research in alignment with the PERO guidelines.

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