Urban Perspectives
Volume 5 is coming soon, featuring collaborative partnerships and research on the diverse issues facing urban areas.

Announcements

Handbook of Engaged Scholarship:
Contemporary Landscapes, Future Directions, Volumes 1 and 2
Now available from MSU Press

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award Nominations
Award highlighting the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice.
Nominations Due: February 4, 2011

The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, Volume I
Call for Papers
Deadline: February 1, 2011

Tools of Engagement Learning Modules
Online curriculum modules are available for use by MSU faculty to introduce undergraduate students to the concept of university-community engagement.

MSU Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement
Program prepares graduate students for academic careers that integrate scholarship with community engagement. It offers students a transcript notation indicating that they have completed the program.

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World Usability Day 2010: Mobile Communication
Statewide event hosted by MSU Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting
November 11, 2010

The Evaluation Circle Workshops, 2010-2011
A series of workshops on evaluation theory and practice
East Lansing, Michigan
December 1, 2010; January 21, 2011; March 18, 2011

National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement National Conference
London, United Kingdom
December 7-8, 2010

MSU Awards Convocation
Pasant Theatre, Wharton Center
East Lansing, Michigan
February 8, 2011

CU Expo 2011
Community-University Partnerships: Bringing Global Perspectives to Local Action
May 10-14, 2011

Engagement Academy for University Leaders
Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia
June 6-10, 2011

National Outreach Scholarship Conference
12th Annual Meeting
October 2-4, 2011

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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