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April 2009 | Volume 1, Issue 4

Featured MSU Engaged Scholars

Exemplary Engagement Projects Selected to Represent MSU in National Award Program
  • William S. Davidson II, Ph.D.
  • University Distinguished Professor
  • Department of Psychology
  • College of Social Science
  • Peter R. LaPine, Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders
  • College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Exemplary Engagement Projects Selected to Represent MSU in National Award Program

Two outstanding projects were selected to represent Michigan State University in a national award program that recognizes university-community partnerships. Projects by William S. Davidson II, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Peter R. LaPine, Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, were placed in consideration for the ... read more

Congratulations Dr. Davidson
Photo of William S. Davidson II, Ph.D.As this issue of the e-newsletter was being finalized, we learned that Dr. Davidson's Adolescent Diversion Project has been named the North Central Regional winner of the 2009 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award. This project will now advance as a finalist for the national C. Peter Magrath University/Community Engagement Award.

Morality vs. E-Morality
  • Linda A. Jackson
  • Professor
  • Department of Psychology
  • College of Social Science

Morality vs. E-Morality

Children's perceptions of ethics online

Linda Jackson has been studying children's interactions with the Internet for almost as long as there's been an Internet. Her focus on how young people function in the virtual world began with the HomeNetToo project (2000-2005), which looked at Internet use among low-income families, and continues through her current ... read more

MSU Priorities

Community and Economic Development in the 21st Century

Promoting the Entrepreneurial Ideas, Innovations, and Excellence of Michigan Businesses

Promoting the Entrepreneurial Ideas, Innovations, and Excellence of Michigan Businesses

The Eli Broad College of Business Institute for Entrepreneurship

Michigan's economic woes are well known. Yet, in 2006, over 23,000 new businesses were created in Michigan, according to the United States Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy. Creating new businesses, helping them flourish, and assisting established companies in reinventing their business models are vital to Michigan's economic recovery. The Eli Broad College of Business Institute for Entrepreneurship plays an important role in assisting that recovery ... read more

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, transformative, and anchored in scholarship. If you are a faculty or academic staff member wanting to establish a community partnership, University Outreach and Engagement may be able to help you. Our staff and researchers have connections across the state in areas such as education, mental health, human services, business, and government. For more information, contact Burton Bargerstock, Executive Director of the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship, at (517) 353-8977 or bb@msu.edu.

Feedback

We would like to hear from you. Contact us with comments, suggestions, announcements, or "engaged scholar" project information for future e-newsletters. Send to: engaged.scholar@msu.edu.

Resources

MSU Graduate Certification in Community Engagement
This program prepares graduate students for 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 Community Engaged Learning to guide and support MSU faculty, students, staff, and community partners.

Transformations in Higher Education: The Scholarship of Engagement Series
Available from Michigan State University Press

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