UOE Goals
Core and Strategic Priorities:
Pillar 1 External Partnerships and Engagement
UOE is committed to building strategic community partnerships, facilitating learning and scholarship, and supporting place-based initiatives. UOE will convene community and university partners to collaboratively produce scholarship, strengthen capacity, and catalyze interdisciplinary networks that address societal challenges and transform lives.
Core Priorities
- Strengthen partnerships in key areas of university outreach and engagement, including but not limited to research and evaluation, arts and culture, pre-college and K-12 engagement, Tribal nations, and global engagement, which are responsive to emerging internal and external opportunities.
- Provide leadership to identify, develop, and share information internally and externally about university structures and resources that support community-engaged scholarship and community-university partnerships.
- Create and enhance sustainable institutional systems and supports for building and managing external partnerships.
- Co-create and implement reciprocal and mutually beneficial place-based partnerships.
Strategic Priorities
- Establish an Engagement Innovation Lab that connects faculty, staff, and students in partnerships that support external funding competitiveness, deliver practical and publishable results, and align with community-articulated priorities for research and learning.
- In partnership with MSU units, explore the feasibility of launching an incubator funding program that centers community-articulated research priorities and fosters opportunities to secure external funding.
- Modernize and reframe the strategic relationship between MSU Extension and University Outreach and Engagement to define missions and purpose, identify opportunities, and model progressive land-grant approaches to strengthen collaboration with university and community partners.
- Support the Office of the President’s Roadmap strategy on local and regional engagement that leverages MSU’s strengths.
By cultivating programs, scholarship, and shared resources through these priorities, UOE serves as a vital convener and connector, driving responsive and impactful community-university partnerships that align with MSU’s land-grant mission.
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