APPLICANTS FOR THIS PROGRAM SHOULD BE:
Doctoral students or junior faculty
members with an interest in community engagement and engaged scholarship,
and/or who are involved or interested in research that contributes to
their discipline while making a positive impact on external stakeholders.
APPLICANTS MUST ALSO DEMONSTRATE:
·
A desire for new
learning about engaged scholarship.
·
An interest in
working with faculty across disciplines to explore and learn more about
how engaged scholarship might be carried out.
·
The capacity to
effectively communicate the results of their research to public,
academic, and other external audiences.
The application process for the
Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop is competitive, with only 15-20
participants selected each year.
WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS:
·
Master classes
on the foundations of community-engaged scholarship, and practical themes
such as building an engagement dossier, etc.
·
Critical reviews
of participants' proposals of community-engaged research projects.
·
Panel discussion
with faculty, administrators and cooperative extension staff on
disciplinary, institutional type, and community partner considerations
for engaged scholarship.
·
Small group work
with a designated faculty mentor (includes discussion about methods and
theories, with a focus on each individual participant's proposed engaged
scholarship).
·
Panel discussion
with journal editors from peer-reviewed publications that publish engaged
scholarship.
·
Panel discussion
on the challenges, successes, and professional pathways related to
engaged scholarship.
Through the generous support of its
Board of Directors, the Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference
provides registration scholarships to all Workshop participants, so that
they can take full advantage of the larger conference program.
EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Applications for the 2017 Emerging
Engagement Scholars Workshop are due Friday, April 28, 2017.
For information and for application materials, go to:
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