University Outreach and Engagement

1. University Outreach and Engagement Laurie A. Van Egeren, Ph.D. Interim Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement she/her/hers vanegere@msu.edu engage.msu.edu MSU New Administrator Orientation August 5, 2019

2. Land Acknowledgement Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg–Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.

3. What do we mean by outreach and engagement?

4. MSU’s Mission As a public, research-intensive, land-grant university funded in part by the state of Michigan, our mission is to advance knowledge and transform lives by: • providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and professional education to promising, qualified students in order to prepare them to contribute fully to society as globally engaged citizen leaders • conducting research of the highest caliber that seeks to answer questions and create solutions in order to expand human understanding and make a positive difference, both locally and globally • advancing outreach, engagement, and economic development activities that are innovative, research-driven, and lead to a better quality of life for individuals and communities, at home and around the world MSU Board of Trustees, April 18, 2008

5. MSU’s Mission As a public, research-intensive, land-grant university funded in part by the state of Michigan, our mission is to advance knowledge and transform lives by: • providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and professional education to promising, qualified students in order to prepare them to contribute fully to society as globally engaged citizen leaders • conducting research of the highest caliber that seeks to answer questions and create solutions in order to expand human understanding and make a positive difference, both locally and globally • advancing outreach, engagement, and economic development activities that are innovative, research-driven, and lead to a better quality of life for individuals and communities, at home and around the world MSU Board of Trustees, April 18, 2008

6. MSU’s Mission As a public, research-intensive, land-grant university funded in part by the state of Michigan, our mission is to advance knowledge and transform lives by: • providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and professional education to promising, qualified students in order to prepare them to contribute fully to society as globally engaged citizen leaders • conducting research of the highest caliber that seeks to answer questions and create solutions in order to expand human understanding and make a positive difference, both locally and globally • advancing outreach, engagement, and economic development activities that are innovative, research-driven, and lead to a better quality of life for individuals and communities, at home and around the world MSU Board of Trustees, April 18, 2008

7. MSU’s Mission As a public, research-intensive, land-grant university funded in part by the state of Michigan, our mission is to advance knowledge and transform lives by: • providing outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and professional education to promising, qualified students in order to prepare them to contribute fully to society as globally engaged citizen leaders • conducting research of the highest caliber that seeks to answer questions and create solutions in order to expand human understanding and make a positive difference, both locally and globally • advancing outreach, engagement, and economic development activities that are innovative, research-driven, and lead to a better quality of life for individuals and communities, at home and around the world MSU Board of Trustees, April 18, 2008

8. Critical Issues in Higher Education • Faculty and student recruitment and retention • Funding agency priorities • Public accountability • High-quality research • Real-life preparation for students

9. Terms Vary

10. Terms Vary • Engagement • Outreach • Broader impacts • Public humanities • Knowledge exchange • Translation and dissemination • Engaged scholarship • Knowledge mobilization • Public scholarship • Community science • University-community partnership • Science communication • Community-based research • Community-engaged learning • Civic engagement • Action research • Public engagement • Citizen science • Knowledge management • Diffusion • Research impact • Community development • Experiential learning/education • Knowledge translation

11. Outreach and Engagement at MSU: Provost’s Committee Report(1993) “Outreach [and engagement] is a form of scholarship that cuts across teaching, research, and service. It involves generating, transmitting, applying, and preserving knowledge for the direct benefit of external audiences in ways that are consistent with university and unit missions.”

12. Many Forms (Slide 1 of 3) Engaged Researchand Creative Activity • Community-based research • Applied research • Contractual research • Demonstration projects • Needs and assets assessments • Program evaluations • Translation of research scholarship throughpresentations, publications, and web sites • Exhibitions and performances

13. Many Forms (Slide 2 of 3) Engaged Teachingand Learning • Online and off-campus education • Continuing education • Occupational short course, certificate,and licensure programs • Contract instructional programs • Participatory curriculum development • Non-credit classes and programs • Conferences, seminars, and workshops • Educational enrichment programsfor the public and alumni • Service-learning • Study abroad programs withengagement components • Pre-college programs

14. Many Forms (Slide 3 of 3) EngagedService • Technical assistance • Consulting • Policy analysis • Expert testimony • Knowledge transfer • Commercialization of discoveries • Creation of new business ventures • Clinical services • Human and animal patient care

15. Main Points:MSU outreach and engagement is: • Embedded in scholarship – founded in, creating, applying, and/or disseminating knowledge • Co-created with communities • Makes a meaningful difference in society • A core part of MSU’s mission and responsibility

16. UOE’s Mission Support faculty, staff, and studentsto conduct engaged scholarship with communities and the public

17. Campus programs and initiatives • Pre-College Programs • WKAR radio • MSU Extension • Agriculture • Health • Children and Families • Youth • Health Centers • MSU HealthTeam • Small and Large Animal Clinic) • Entrepreneurship programs • W. K. Kellogg Biological Station • MSU Science Festival • Engineering Design Days • Museums and science centers • MSU Museum • MSU Broad Art Museum and Art Lab • Abrams Planetarium • MSU Bug House • MSU 4-H Children’s Garden • Science Gallery • Michigan Sea Grant • Alvin L. Storrs Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic • Wharton Center for Performing Arts • MSU Alliance for African Partnership • Cyclotron/FRIB

18. University Outreach and Engagement

19. Office forPublic Engagement and Scholarship (OPES) Facilitate work in key functional areas • Community-engaged research • Faculty and professional development • Partnership networks: • Community partnerships • Workforce and economic development partnerships • Arts and cultural partnerships • Institutional research, policy, and recognition

20. OPES Key Functional AreaCommunity-engagedresearch • Consult on design and implementation of community-engaged research • Connect to potential research partners in and out of the university • Help identify funding opportunities for community-engaged research • Help generate ideas for broader impacts section for NSF proposals • Review community-engagement or broader impacts sections of proposals • Consult on evaluation design for research proposals • Identify and convene groups of researchers and community partners in specific areas of interest • Provide competitive small grant support for partnership development • Consult about application and dissemination of research

21. OPES Key Functional AreaFaculty andprofessional development • Build capacity for community-engaged scholarship • Conduct educational programs for faculty, staff, and students, and community on: • Doing community-engaged research, learning and service • Publishing community-engaged scholarship • Building engaged scholarship into promotion and tenure process • Approaches to and MSU exemplars of community-engaged scholarship • Evaluating community partnerships and programs • Effective partnering for both MSU stakeholders and community stakeholders • Communicating science to the public • Developing and implementing broader impacts activities • Translating research to policy • Collaborate with other institutions on engaged scholarship programs for our faculty

22. OPES Key Functional AreaCommunitypartnerships • Build and maintain networks of potential community partners for mutually beneficial university-community partnerships • Nonprofits • Tribal networks • Latina/os communities • Arab-American communities • Detroit, Flint, Lansing offices • Workforce, talent and economic development • Local and state government • Opioid prevention and treatment • K-12 youth programs • Early childhood programs • Arts and cultural networks • Michigan Campus Compact

23. OPES Key Functional AreaInstitutional research,policy, and recognition • Convene UOE Engagement Scholarship Advisory Council, all colleges • Collect information about the engagement activities of faculty/staff for searches and reporting • Conduct accreditation studies for engagement • Recognize engagement scholarship of faculty, staff, students through university awards • Consult with other institutions and organizations about engagement • Support policies that advance engaged scholarship • Provide promotion and tenure metrics and facilitate departmental conversations • Participate in and lead national and international engaged scholarship organizations • Study and publish on scholarship of engagement

24. University Outreach and Engagement

25. Center for Community Engaged Learning Faculty Support • Course Development • Community Partner Facilitation • Student Community Engagement Preparation and Placements • Evaluation and Assessment • Peer Learning Groups • Faculty Workshops and Seminars • Annual Community Engaged Learning Index Student Support • Spartan Volunteer Service Awards • MSU Civic Life App • Volunteer Service Placements • Days of Service • MSUvote • Community Engagement Scholars Program

26. Community Engagement by MSU Students Center for Community Engaged Learning. (In press). Outreach and Engagement Snapshot. The Engaged Scholar, 14. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

27. UOE Website engage.msu.edu

28. Laurie A. Van Egeren 55 Kellogg Center 517-355-0140 vanegere@msu.edu