Attention: Faculty, Extension and Academic Staff, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students
Friday, February 20, 2026
8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Do you have a great service-learning, outreach teaching, community-engaged research, or Extension project and are unsure how to write it up for a peer-reviewed publication? Are you familiar with disciplinary journals and interested in branching out into interdisciplinary community engagement journals but not sure where to start? Then this interactive workshop is for you.
- Fundamentals of Publishing Community Engagement:
From 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., we will focus on what makes publishing community-engaged work different than publishing traditional scholarship, how to incorporate community partner voices into your publishing, and how to unpack a robust project into multiple scholarly pieces.
- Finding Strategic Journal “Fits” and Resources for Your Community Engagement:
From 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., we will focus on where to disseminate your community-engaged scholarship at community engagement-friendly conferences and with journals, how to achieve article “fit” with specific journals, and where to access more writing resources and support.
Workshop Schedule
8:30–9:00 a.m.: Workshop check-in, light breakfast, networking
9:00–10:30 a.m.: Fundamentals of Publishing Community Engagement
10:30–10:45 a.m.: Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Finding Strategic Journal “Fits” and Support for Your Community Engagement
NOTE: You may attend the whole morning or just the part you’re interested in.
Facilitator
Diane M. Doberneck is the director for faculty and professional development with University Outreach and Engagement and adjunct associate professor of community sustainability at Michigan State University. Diane is a frequent journal reviewer for interdisciplinary community-engagement journals, recent co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, author of Campus Compact’s Knowledge Hub on Publishing Engaged Scholarship and MSU’s online toolkit, Resources for Publishing Community-Engaged Scholarship.
Sponsored by: University Outreach and Engagement, The Writing Center, The Graduate School
