University Outreach and Engagement uses the term "The Engaged Scholar" to describe a family of initiatives – a magazine, an e-newsletter, and a speaker series – that focus on collaborative partnerships between MSU and its external constituents. The partnerships that are profiled in the magazine and e-newsletter are forged for mutual benefit and learning, with an emphasis on research. Stories are selected to be examplars of university-community partnerships and demonstrate how outreach and engagement can be applied in all the academic disciplines.