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[February 2009]
Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
MSU Priorities
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Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
- Janet A. Swenson, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education
Teachers of Writing, Writers, and Students Learn Best Practices
Outreach Scholarship Community Partnership Award honors Dr. Janet Swenson and Red Cedar Writing Project
Janet Swenson knows that effective communication depends on far more than simply the written word. Over the past few years numerous powerful and inexpensive communication technologies have become available to the average user. Cell phones enhanced with camera, video, and keyboard capacities, along with fully functioning, highly portable mini-notebook computers, have emerged in conjunction with Internet-based social networking and collaborative writing opportunities ...
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- Ram Narasimhan, Ph.D.
- University Distinguished Professor
- John H. McConnell Professor of Business Administration, Department of Supply Chain Management
Transforming Companies to Meet the Challenge of Change
Our nation’s businesses are facing major challenges, and not just as a result of the current economic crisis. In order to compete effectively in a globalized context—in fact in order to survive—businesses need to be flexible and innovative. Executives and managerial professionals need to know how to change and change quickly ...
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MSU Priorities
Community and Economic Development in the 21st Century
Local to Global to Local: The Food Safety Knowledge Network
Safe, Affordable Food is a Worldwide Concern
Over the past decades, the food procurement system has become truly globalized, reaching into every corner of the world to ensure consumers an uninterrupted and affordable supply of food. However, recent incidences of food safety problems have undermined consumers’ confidence in the integrity of the system ...
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Upcoming Events
National Outreach Scholarship Conference
This year’s host is the University of Georgia
September 28-30, 2009
Michigan World Usability Day 2009
Theme this year is sustainability
November 12, 2009
Looking for Community Partners?
Collaboration and partnership with communities are at the core of engaged scholarship. In all of its work, University Outreach and Engagement emphasizes university-community partnerships that are collaborative, participatory, empowering, systemic, and transformative, and anchored in scholarship. If you are a faculty or academic staff member wanting to establish a partnership with community partners to work on a specific research issue, University Outreach and Engagement can help you. Our University-Community Partnerships (UCP) staff, specialists, and researchers have established connections across the state in a number of areas such as education, mental health, human service, business, and government. For more information, contact Bob Brown at (517) 432-1450 or brownr23@msu.edu.
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