Priority 3: Transform Lives and Communities through Outreach and Engagement

We will...

• Collaborate with rural and urban schools and community leaders.
• Build the college's reputation through public and media relations.
• Host on campus experiences for various stakeholder groups and offer resources to help faculty and staff grow their outreach efforts.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase the number and impact of collaborations with regional schools and communities.
• Increase the number and audience size of public engagements and media contacts/interactions to 100 per year.
• Increase the number and scope of hosted events.
• Improve outreach resources to support faculty growth in this area.

Highlighted Initiatives

• Faculty Fellows and Davis College Engaged Scholars Program.
• Coordinate media outreach and social media content creation through the Strategic Marketing and Communications staff at Davis College.

We will...

• Build impactful relationships that address societal or community needs, issues, or problems through community engaged learning or engaged research.
• Involve student organizations in the community through service projects, science nights, school visits, and youth development organizations.
• Provide more hands-on experiences through internships, cooperative education agreements, or short-term experiences.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase the number of community partnerships based on a stated need.
• Increase the number of community partnerships through engaged research, leadership development, and community engaged learning courses.
• Programmatic approach to internships and cooperative education agreements to assist collaborators in working with top student talent.

Highlighted Initiatives

• Davis College “Service Day” to create community connections with students and student organizations.
• Support for community-engaged teaching and research activities from the College to faculty, staff and students.

We will...

• Broaden community impact through engaged scholarship, which can include publications (books, journals), presentations, media, curriculum, laws, and others.
• Add outreach and engagement to the faculty promotion and tenure protocols; reward outreach and engagement activities through national and local award nominations.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase the number of outreach and engagement products (presentations, publications, media engagements, curriculum, etc.) developed by Davis College faculty by 40%.
• Inclusion of outreach and engagement output into annual reviews; formal recognition through changes in appointment.

Highlighted Initiatives

• Development and Implementation of new Promotion and &Tenure criteria.
• Establish a new Davis College Outreach and Engagement award.
• Davis College Engaged Scholars Program

We will...

• Increase training for and identification of engaged teaching opportunities for Davis College faculty.
• Assist in finding resources to support faculty engaged teaching activities.
• Reward engaged teaching activities through the promotion and tenure process.

Key Performance Indicators

• Increase faculty participation in engaged teaching training events, and faculty activity in engaged teaching.
• Create a new college award on engaged teaching and track awardees.

Highlighted Initiatives

• Davis College Engaged Scholars Program to be launched January 2026, which will encourage faculty to integrate their teaching, research, and engagement wholistically.