The Engaged Scholarship Symposium is dedicated to bringing Texas Tech faculty, staff, students, and community partners together to explore the theory and practice of outreach and engaged scholarship in higher education.
Symposium sessions will feature projects and activities from various disciplines that involve mutually beneficial partnerships with communities. Attendees will gain insights into ways of embedding outreach and engagement into teaching, research, or creative activities integrating engagement into the curriculum building and sustaining effective partnerships; using engagement with communities to advance scholarship or external funding, evaluating and assessing impacts on communities and much more.
Parking for the symposium and Keynote Luncheon is available in R13 Visitor Lot. When you register for the syposium you will receive instructions on how to register your vehicle. Parking in this lot is limited and is on a first come first serve basis. If the lot if full upon your arrival there is parking available a short walk away at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.
Click here to see the full symposium schedule with locations and session descriptions
Schedule at a Glance
Tuesday April 16 |
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Presenter: Dr. CassiDe Street This session will be a hands on walkthrough of Cayuse and the IRB process. To register for session via the TLPDC portal click the title above and scroll to April 16 session. |
2:00pm - 3:30pm | TTU TLPDC Teaching, Learning, Professional Development Center |
Wednesday April 17 |
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Sign-In | 9:00am - 9:50am | TTU Student Union Building, Courtyard |
Session A1: Undergraduate Student Engagement 1. Undergraduate Mentors Encourage STEM Career Aspirations with Underrepresented K-12 Students 2. The Nature of Philanthropy at MSU Texas: A Collaboration between the College of Business, the Honors Program, philanthropists, and local nonprofits |
10:00am - 11:15am, | TTU Student Union Building, Matador Room 227 |
Session A2: Communities and Technology Use 1. Revisiting the 'Lonely Crowd' Hypothesis in the Age of the Internet and Social Media: A Visual Urban Ethnographic Study 2. Connecting College Town Communities through Immersive Technology and Direct Interaction of Students and Local Communities |
10:00am - 11:15am, | TTU Student Union Building, Red Raider Lounge |
Keynote Luncheon & Awards Ceremony ft. Terrence Coffie | 11:30am - 1:15pm | TTU Student Union Building, Red Raider Ballroom |
Session B1: President's Engaged Scholarship Award Recipients Presentations |
1:30pm - 3:00pm | TTU Student Union Building, Matador Room 227 |
Community Partner Networking Fair | 1:30pm - 3:00pm | TTU Student Union Building, Courtyard |
Session C1: 1. Engaged Scholarship Faculty Fellows Presentations |
3:00pm - 4:15pm | TTU Student Union Building, Matador Room 227 |
Thursday April 18 |
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Sign-In | 8:00am - 8:50am | TTU Student Union Building, Courtyard |
Session D1: Adult & Student Learner Engagement 1. Examining the Role of Teaching Assistants in Higher Education 2. Presenting Artificial Intelligence to the Community- a Learning Experience in Engagement 3. Youth Participatory Study: Immigrant Youth in a Critical Literacy Classroom |
9:00am -10:15am |TTU Student Union Building, Red Raider Lounge |
Session D2: Community Based Nutrition Education 1. Nutrition Education Program Among Resource-Poor Women in Rural Guatemala: Lessons Learned 2. Culinartistry with samTM: Bridging Research, Community, and Commercialization for Senior Health 3. Landscape for Learning: Reimagining Childcare "Playgrounds" as Nature-Based Informal Learning Environments |
9:00am -10:15am | TTU Student Union Building, Matador Room 227 |
Session E1: Building Engaged Scholarship Communities 1. Negotiated Knowledge: Co-Constructing Research and Collaborative Publishing in a Long-Term Engaged Scholarship Partnership 2. Growing in Our Practice: Engaging While Advancing Scholarship Through Purposeful Development of Professional Learning Processes |
10:30am - 11:45am | TTU Student Union Building, Matador Room 227 |
Session E2: Curricular Engagement 1. Art, Environment, Sustainability 2. TTU Social Work Program and Lubbock Impact Working Together: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Going |
10:30am - 11:45am | TTU Student Union Building, Red Raider Lounge |
Session F1: Public Engagement Strategies *Session includes lunch 1. Sexism | Cinema: An Engaged Scholarship Film Series 2. The Southwest Collection: Archiving a History of Community Engaged Scholarship |
12:00pm - 1:30pm | TTU Student Union Building, Mesa Room 217 |
Session G1: Lubbock Arts and Intersection Research 1. Perish and Publish: Opportunities for Engagement in Death Studies |
1:45pm - 2:30pm | TTU Student Union Building, Red Raider Lounge |
Session G2: Graduate Student Engagement & Impacts 1. Evaluating Multi-Level Impacts of an Occupational Therapy Program's Community-Engaged Doctoral Capstone Projects |
1:45pm - 2:30pm | TTU Student Union Building, Mesa Room 217 |
Session H: Curated Behind the Scenes tour of the Museum of Texas Tech University
This session has limited availability and registrations will be on a first come first served basis. |
2:30pm - 3:30pm | Museum of Texas Tech University |
Outreach & Engagement
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Address
Texas Tech University | Drane Hall | Box 41047 -
Phone
806-742-2392 -
Email
universityoutreachandengagement@ttu.edu