Through the research and activities of the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship, UOE provides a greater understanding of how university engagement enhances faculty scholarship and community progress. Activities include: developing measurement and benchmarking criteria for engagement; defining outreach and engagement; investigating policies and practices for weaving engagement into the institutional culture; and studying processes and impacts of university-community collaborations.

A selection of UOE projects and resources is listed here.

Oral History of Latinos in Michigan

This project focuses on the settlement of Latinos in Michigan, with an emphasis on farmworkers, Latino autoworkers, and

Broader Impacts Workshop Series

A series of virtual and in-person workshops introduces participants to all the information they need to create a success

Community Engaged Research Fellows Program

The Community Engaged Research Fellows Program offers a yearlong, cohort-based faculty and academic staff development pr

Community-Engaged Research for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Speaker Series

This virtual speaker series focuses on community-engaged research theory and practice that pursues the dismantling of st

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-Ins

Since 2016, University Outreach and Engagement has partnered with The Writing Center to offer monthly, half-day write-in

Community-Engaged Scholarship Writing Retreat

Each October since 2016, University Outreach and Engagement has partnered with The Writing Center to offer a two-day, of

Institutional Consultancy on Community-Engaged Scholarship and University Outreach

Since the early 1990’s, Michigan State University’s emphasis on scholarship-driven community outreach and en

MI Department of Natural Resources – Wildlife Division

Since 2017, the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship has partnered with the Michigan Department of Natural Resou

Michigan Boarding Schools Speaker Series

In partnership with MSU’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, MSU’s Indigenous Law and Policy Ce

Michigan Indian Boarding School Research Initiative

The Michigan Indian Boarding School Research Initiative is a collaboration between the Native American Institute (NAI) a

Michigan Sea Grant Extension Fellows Program

Since 2015, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, The Graduate School, and University Outreach and Engagement have partnered to

MSU Graduate Certification in Community Engagement

Since 2009, the Office of the Vice Provost for University Outreach and Engagement has offered the Graduate Certification

Outreach and Engagement Measurement Instrument

Michigan State University has annually collected data about community-engaged scholarship and university outreach from i

Outreach and Engagement Recognition Programs

University Outreach and Engagement recognizes and shines a light on exemplary community-engaged scholarship and outreach

Reciprocal Research Partnerships with Indigenous Nations

The Native American Institute developed Reciprocal Research: A Guidebook to Centering Community in Partnerships with Ind

Sea Grant Extension Community-Engaged Research Institute

In July 2017, Sea Grant Extension and University Outreach and Engagement partnered to offer a weeklong community-engaged

STEM Ambassador Program (STEMAP)

STEMAP recruits MSU participants for a 6-month science communication and outreach training program, focused on building

Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship

Since 2016, the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship has offered a weeklong summer intensive focused on communit

The Engaged Scholar

University Outreach and Engagement uses the term "The Engaged Scholar" to describe a family of initiatives &nd

Transformations in Higher Education: The Scholarship of Engagement Book Series

The Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship partners with the Michigan State University Press to publish the Transf