Teacher-scholar-activism is an acceptance by the university faculty of their position of influence upon their students, colleagues, discipline, and society, and commitment to honor their values as they relate to social justice in their work, teaching, and academic and/or public scholarship.

Such work forms a dynamic process of social transformation in which the teacher-scholar-activist may write/teach/speak about movement work as well as continue to engage with theory that transforms the meaning of and possibilities of social justice initiatives, potentially creating and disseminating ideas capable of further social emancipation.