Faculty and Staff Engagement

• Professional Development 
  • Ensure access to professional development opportunities, including training and technical support, on engaged teaching and research that connects to Carnegie Guidelines for community engagement.
• Recognition and Rewards
  • Recognize and reward community engagement across policies, programs, and practices, in research, teaching, and / or service
  • Recognize diverse forms of scholarship as forms of community-engaged scholarship.
• Faculty and Staff Scholarship
  • Collect, share, and promote faculty, staff, and student scholarship examples
  • Recognize and promote community outputs as forms of community-engaged scholarship. 

• Center for Service Learning - Hub for service-learning course support, community partner connections, and faculty development.
• Service-Learning Course Designation - Information on how to designate a course as service learning by CSL. The site includes a list of course components, a service-learning course submission form and course examples from KU instructors and student research. 
• Center for Service Learning Ambassador Program - Connects faculty, staff, students, and community partners who are interested in promoting service learning and community engagement.  
• Designated Service Learning Courses - Current listings of service-learning courses to connect students with engagement opportunities.
• Staff Fellows Program - Leadership development program for staff to engage in university-wide initiatives.
• Propose a staff community engagement activity that aligns with your unit mission to your supervisor for a team building experience.  
• KU Office of Research: Community Engagement - Connect with research centers and institutes supporting community-engaged research.
• KU Office of Research: Broader Impacts at KU - Determine how your research contributes to broader community and societal impacts.
• Community-Engaged Research Continuum - Explore the full spectrum of community-engaged research approaches supported at KU.
• Office of Community Impact Trainings - Participate in trainings on responsible community-engaged scholarship.
• Kansas Informal Learning Network Event Calendar - Find informal learning opportunities and community engagement events supported by campus partners.
• KU Community Impact Summit - Showcase your community-engaged research at this annual gathering of campus and community partners.
• Refer to the Carnegie Community Engagement Framework Guidance Document when planning, implementing, and assessing community engagement across departments and units.
• Engaged KU Community Check Box - Use the strategic dashboard to document community engagement activities.

Explore these resources from the Community Tool Box