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2025 University Outreach and Engagement Awards announced!

Congratulations to the 2025 University Outreach and Engagement Award recipients! The awards honor faculty, staff and students for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact. Awards were given in the following categories: Community Engaged Scholar, Community Engaged Practitioner and Community Engaged Graduate Student.

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Apply for the Engaged Scholars Academy

The Engaged Scholars Academy has been created to develop engaged scholars at Ohio State. It is a one-year, cohort-based leadership and professional development initiative that supports faculty at the ranks of assistant and associate professor in strengthening their engaged scholarship. Applications are due March 24.

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Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference call for proposals

The call for proposals is open for the 2025 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference on Oct. 8-9 in Roanoke, Virginia. This year's conference theme is "Bridging Resources to Build Stronger Communities." Presentation proposals will be considered on any topic clearly connected to the advancement of community engagement. Ohio State is a member of ESC. Proposals are due March 31.

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2025 Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship

To support and promote high-impact engaged scholarship, the Office of Outreach and Engagement has instituted a process to certify programs of excellence in engaged scholarship. The certification process seeks to identify and certify projects annually that demonstrate excellence in community engaged scholarship and meet the criteria of high-impact engaged scholarship. Congratulations to the 2025 Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship!

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Ohio State Engages March 2025 Newsletter

Check out the March issue of Ohio State Engages! This issue has news about 2025 award winners and programs of excellence, funding and professional development opportunities, and more!

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    June 14, 2022 — News

    Spring 2022 Staff Grant recipients announced

    Congratulations to the recipients of Spring 2022 Outreach and Engagement staff grants! Grants were awarded by the Office of Outreach and Engagement through a competitive process in two categories: professional development and community programs and events. Each recipient earned a $500 grant.

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    June 10, 2022 — News

    2022 Outreach and Engagement Funded Grant Proposals

    The following 2022 Outreach and Engagement grants have been selected for funding. This year, $204,710 was awarded at a maximum amount of $20,000 to support development of impact reports for programs, performances or exhibits; development of a public policy document or impact report; development or implementation of a program, performance, exhibition, or initiative based upon previous research, assessment, or public input; or enhance or expand a program that extends community access to the university, broadly defined.

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    June 7, 2022 — News

    Team led by Program on Dispute Resolution Director Katrina Lee awarded $250,000 grant from AAA-ICDR Foundation

    The American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution Foundation (AAA-ICDR) has awarded a $250,000 grant to support a project led by Moritz College of Law Professor Katrina Lee (Principal Investigator), Department of English Professor Simone Drake (Co-Investigator), and Department of African American and African Studies Professor Judson Jeffries (Co-Investigator). The project is titled Improving Internal Police Negotiation and Communication Tools to Improve Police-Civilian Interaction. The projects focus is on assessing internal climate dynamics and social relations within the Columbus Division of Police and developing culturally-informed negotiation training modules that will help to improve internal communication, diverse recruiting, retention, and police-civilian interactions.

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    June 6, 2022 — News

    Clark earns national faculty community engagement award

    Jill Clark, associate professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, has earned the 2022 Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC). Clark received this national recognition for her leadership with the Franklin County Local Food Council (FCLFC).

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    June 2, 2022 — News

    Engaged Scholars: Terri Teal Bucci

    My professional endeavors have been focused on community-engaged scholarship since arriving at The Ohio State University in 1999 as an assistant professor of Mathematics Education. Following promotion to associate faculty in 2004, my community-based scholarship broadened; from embedded scholarship and teaching with K-5 teachers in a rural district, to interdisciplinary and international field work in Haiti. All along, I was able to act on opportunities to develop as a scholar of outreach, which provided the experiences to contribute to the field of Mathematics Education.

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