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Children and Youth

The 2017 issue of the Engaged Scholar Magazine looks at children and youth. Topics range from preventing childhood obesity and helping teens manage diabetes, to a program for young children on the autism spectrum, and a curriculum for helping youth strengthen their cultural identity.

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Announcements

2018 University Economic Development Association Awards of Excellence
Nomination deadline: May 15, 2018

2018 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty
Nomination deadline: June 1, 2018

MSU Graduate Certification 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.

Community Engagement Toolkits
Designed by the Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement to guide and support MSU faculty, students, staff, and community partners.

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.

Transformations in Higher Education: The Scholarship of Engagement Series
Available from MSU Press

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MSU Outreach and Engagement Awards Ceremony Honors Outstanding University-Community Collaborations

The Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement Annual Awards Ceremony was held on Wednesday, February 21, at the Kellogg Center with an audience that included award recipients and their families, community partners, deans, colleagues, and students.

The awards program was established by University Outreach and Engagement (UOE) in 2005 with the Community Engagement Scholarship Award (CESA). The CESA is a university-wide recognition of exemplary engaged scholarship with a community partner.

The Distinguished Partnership Awards, established in 2017, are bestowed annually on highly regarded projects that emerge from CESA nominations in the areas of community-engaged research, creative activity, teaching, and service. These collaborations reflect scholarly community-based work that positively impacts both community and university partners ... read more

American Kestrel Nesting Boxes Keep Falcons Productive Partners for U.S. Fruit Farmers

Anyone with a backyard vegetable garden knows that nature is always trying to get at your plants. Moles, chipmunks, ground hogs, rabbits, raccoons, deer, and a million insects see your hard work as an all-you-can-eat buffet. Farmers have faced the challenge of natural pests since the beginning of agriculture. For Michigan cherry and blueberry growers, some of the most persistent pests are birds—starlings, grackles, American robins, and jays are just a few of the birds drawn by ripe sweet fruit.

These birds can have a dramatic impact on an orchard's yield. Not only do birds eat the crop, they also peck at fruit and leave it behind. Growers then have to invest time in picking out the damaged fruit or suffer a reduction in grade when it comes time to sell. This costs them time and money. Studies have shown that "managing bird damage prevents between $53 million and $65 million in annual losses to grower revenue in Michigan." ... read more

It Takes More Than a Village to Create a Safe Route to School

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a program of the Federal Highway Administration that provides funding to states to help elementary and middle schools make improvements in infrastructure and programming to make it easier for children to walk, ride bikes, or use wheelchairs to get to school safely. While in year's past it was common for children to walk and bike to school, today, many trips to school are made in private automobiles, contributing to a decline in physical activity, an increase in congested roadways around schools, and heightened concerns about the safety of children who do walk or bike to school ... read more

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-Ins
East Lansing, Michigan
May 4, 2018
June 1, 2018
July 13, 2018

Re-Imagining the Built Environment Forum
East Lansing, Michigan
May 7, 2018

NSF Broader Impacts Two-Day Workshop
East Lansing, Michigan
May 9-10, 2018

21st Annual Summer Solstice Jazz Festival
East Lansing, Michigan
June 22-23, 2018

APLU CEO CICEP Joint Summer Meeting: Creative Placemaking for Healthy Communities
Richmond, Virginia
June 25-28, 2018

International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement
New Orleans, Louisiana
July 18-20 2018

Engagement Scholarship Consortium Annual Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 30-October 3, 2018

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 30-October 1, 2018

Leadership of Engagement 2018: An Engagement Academy Executive Seminar
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 1, 2018

Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network Workshop
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 1, 2018

Pre-College and Youth Programming Workshop
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 1, 2018

Community-Engaged Scholarship Writing Retreat
Shelbyville, Michigan
October 18-19, 2018

Imagining America 2018 National Conference
Chicago, Illinois
October 19-21, 2018

University Economic Development Association Annual Summit
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
October 21-24, 2018

Anchor Institutions Task Force Annual Conference
New York, New York
November 15-16, 2018

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University-Community Partnerships

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, transformative, and anchored in scholarship. If you are a faculty or academic staff member wanting to establish a community partnership to work on a specific research issue, University Outreach and Engagement can help you. Our staff, specialists, and researchers have established connections across the state in a number of areas such as education, mental health, human services, business, and government. For more information, contact Laurie Van Egeren at (517) 353-8977, or vanegere@msu.edu.

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