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Apply now for the University Outreach and Engagement Awards

Ohio State is seeking nominations of programs, scholars and practitioners for the 2023 University Outreach and Engagement Awards, which honor faculty, staff, students and community partners for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact. Awards will be given in three categories: High Impact Program, Community Engaged Scholar and Community Engaged Practitioner (for staff). The deadline to apply is January 31, 2023.

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Apply now for the University Outreach and Engagement Awards

Ohio State's University Outreach and Engagement Awards honor faculty, staff, students and community partners for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 awards!

Applications are due Jan. 31, 2023.

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Williams named faculty fellow

Valarie Williams, professor of Dance, has been named a faculty fellow in the Office of Outreach and Engagement. In this role, she will be coordinating and leading the universitys efforts to complete and submit its Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement application. As a professor of Dance, Williams collaborates on artistic projects producing critical conversations connecting scholarship in the arts with solutions for global societal change.

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OSU Engages January Newsletter

Check out the OSU Engages January Newsletter! This issue features opportunities for Engagement Grants and the Ohio State Artist Laureate, the Community Connector Q&A with Glennon Sweeney, and more!

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    October 25, 2022 — News

    Meet the 2022-23 Columbus-Athens Schweitzer Fellows!

    The Schweitzer Fellows Program supports and trains emerging health-focused graduate and professional students in creating and carrying out service projects to address unmet community needs. The Fellows conduct a one-year community service project of at least 200 service hours, with at least 100 hours involving direct client contact. Fellows partner with an existing community agency in the Columbus or Athens area and have both an academic and a community-based mentor.

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    October 19, 2022 — News

    Ohio State faculty, students share racial justice work at symposium

    During the Seed Fund for Racial Justice Symposium, Ohio State University faculty, staff and students discussed work they have collaborated on with community partners to bring about positive social change. The event was held Oct. 12 at the Fawcett Center. The symposium was the culmination of efforts that began when the university established the Seed Fund for Racial Justice in 2020, said Ryan Schmiesing, senior vice provost for external engagement in the Office of Academic Affairs.

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    October 17, 2022 — News

    Investing in our faculty

    The Ohio State University has an outstanding faculty. The quality of our faculty determines the quality of our scholarship, research, and creative expression; our faculty enables us to attract top graduate and professional students and postdocs; an eminent faculty fosters excellent pedagogy, which has a profound effect on our students and their academic experience. President Kristina M. Johnsons goal of increasing the number of tenure-track faculty is not simply about growing the sheer size of researchers and educators. Instead, it is a promise to invest resources and provide support to the academic heart of the institutionthe faculty. As provost, I am committed to making our university a top institution for all scholars to work, teach, and live.

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    October 4, 2022 — News

    Wexner Center student program encourages creativity, community

    Imagine youre a moth in this gallery. What piece of art is your favorite? This is one of the writing prompts that Kari Gunter-Seymour recently gave the student participants in the Wexner Center for the Arts Pages program. Pages is a free program that allows high school students in central Ohio to work with educators and artists from the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University for an entire school year. Gunter-Seymour, Ohios poet laureate and Wexner Center artist-in-residence, was a participating artist in 2021 and is returning to work with this years cohort.

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    September 29, 2022 — News

    Engaged Scholars: Hasan Kwame Jeffries

    "History is more than dates and names," Jeffries says. "It is the study of the human experience. I engage community to help people understand the past, so that they can make sense of the present, and have the knowledge they need to build a more equal, just, and democratic society in the future."

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