UOE Goals
Core and Strategic Priorities:
Pillar 2 Excellence in Engaged Scholarship and Learning
MSU has been a recognized leader in engaged scholarship for decades. We will foster professional development, institutional leadership, supportive policies, and a culture that enables ethical, respectful, and impactful engagement across disciplines, units, and roles.
Core Priorities
- Provide professional development and learning opportunities for faculty, academic staff, and administrators to help them succeed as community-engaged scholars and practitioners.
- Support undergraduate and graduate students’ community-engaged learning, bolster their success, and illuminate career pathways that contribute to public life.
- Provide MSU leadership for national and international community engagement organizations and leading journals.
- Continue to develop leading-edge tools and resources that advance MSU leadership in the scholarship of outreach and engagement.
Strategic Priorities
- Initiate a UOE faculty/academic staff affiliates program to support scholarly success, excellence, and impact.
- Partner with colleges and units to align engaged research priorities, share resources, and coordinate across units to amplify engagement and impact.
- Work with Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs and campus leadership to strengthen promotion and tenure processes that recognize and reward community-engaged, participatory, and transdisciplinary scholarship.
- Establish a cross-university initiative that advances global engagement.
UOE advances excellence in community-engaged scholarship and practice by supporting professional development for faculty, staff, students, and administrators across disciplines. This work ensures that students, faculty, and staff are equipped to engage ethically, respectfully, and effectively with communities; that MSU’s institutional policies and culture fully support and reward engaged scholarship; and that MSU is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in advancing the theory and practice of engaged scholarship.
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