Priority 3: Transform Lives & Communities Through Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

We will...

• Develop and share internal examples of outreach, engagement, and engaged scholarship for faculty and staff.
• Integrate clear outreach, engagement, and engaged scholarship language into unit annual plans and faculty and staff expectations in ways appropriate to College of Health & Human Sciences disciplines and roles.
• Promote community engagement opportunities through college communications and reporting.

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of engagement activities reported annually by College of Health & Human Sciences faculty, staff, and students.
• Number of College of Health & Human Sciences Community-Engaged Learning (CeL) courses and student participation in engaged projects.
• External stakeholder feedback demonstrates reciprocal and measurable benefit. 

High Impact Practices

• Leverage Community-Engaged Learning (CeL) courses, internships, and practicums, community-based undergraduate research, and capstone projects with community partners, with engagement activities documented through existing TTU systems (e.g., course designations, activity logs, partnership agreements, and student reflections).
• Support faculty in transitioning service-learning, collaborative assignments, and experiential learning projects into CeL-designated offerings.
• Incorporate structured reflective learning into course and student assessments where community perspectives are co-created and inform continuous improvement. 

We will...

• Embed outreach and engaged scholarship into faculty roles and expectations through college-level policies, practices, and support to promote continuity and long-term sustainability. 
• Support reciprocal community partnerships, including local, regional, national, and global, involving faculty, staff, centers, institutes, and initiatives that align with College of Health & Human Sciences academic strengths and community-identified needs.
• Build faculty capacity for outreach and engaged scholarship through professional development, mentoring, and shared resources.
• Strengthen curricular pathways for outreach and engaged scholarship through Community-Engaged Learning (CeL) courses, internships, practicums, undergraduate research, and capstone experiences. 

Key Performance Indicators

• Percentage of College of Health & Human Sciences faculty and staff reporting outreach and engaged scholarship activities annually.
• Evidence of outreach and engaged scholarship reflected in annual faculty reviews, effort allocation/workload, promotion, tenure, and continuing appointment materials at the college and department levels.
• Student participation in CeL courses, internships, practicums, undergraduate research, and community-engaged capstone experiences.
• Number of departments that have at least one CeL-designated course each year.

High Impact Practices

• Community-based undergraduate research and creative activity projects that engage students and faculty in addressing community-identified needs through research, program development, or program evaluation.
• Community-Engaged Learning (CeL) courses that integrate reciprocal community partnerships into the curriculum and provide discipline-specific engagement opportunities for students.
• Community-based internships and practicums that provide sustained, supervised engagement with community partners and create repeatable pathways for student learning, faculty involvement, and long-term partnership development.

We will...

• Build targeted incentives for faculty teaching CeL courses and conducting community-engaged scholarly activities. 
• Increase opportunities for students to train in interprofessional teams within and across the College of Health & Human Sciences and institutional units.
• Develop undergraduate and graduate student recognition and awards.

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of faculty receiving support or recognition for developing or offering CeL courses.
• Use of engagement data to inform curricular planning, faculty support, and continuous improvement.
• Consistent documentation of outreach and engaged scholarship activities through institutional reporting systems.

High Impact Practices

• Community-based clinical placements and practicums that provide supervised training in partnership with community organizations, clinics, schools, and agencies, supporting both student learning and community-identified needs.
• Interprofessional education and team-based clinical training that bring together students from multiple College of Health & Human Sciences programs to collaboratively address complex client, family, and community challenges.
• Community-engaged capstone and culminating experiences that synthesize learning across programs and provide documented outcomes for student recognition and faculty engagement reporting.

We will...

• Sustain and strengthen reciprocal community partnerships that align with College of Health & Human Sciences academic strengths, disciplinary and professional expertise, and community-identified priorities.
• Increase faculty, staff, and student engagement in collaborative partnership activities that support applied learning, scholarship, creativity, and innovation.
• Enhance the coordination and visibility of College of Health & Human Sciences community partnerships across departments and programs to support continuity, reduce potential duplication, and foster engagement across the college.

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of active and sustained community partnerships involving College of Health & Human Sciences faculty, staff, and students.
• Evidence of reciprocal benefit demonstrated through repeat collaborations, partner feedback, or jointly defined outcomes.
• Faculty, staff, and student participation in partnership-based teaching, research, or clinical training.
• Use of community partnership data to inform resource allocation, continuous improvement, and strategic planning. 

High Impact Practices

• Industry and globally engaged community partnership models that support recurring teaching, research, and creative activity, or clinical training.
• Interdisciplinary and interprofessional partnership-based projects that bring together multiple College of Health & Human Sciences programs and institutional units to address complex community challenges.
• Community-engaged applied research, evaluation, and innovation projects co-developed with partners to support shared goals and measurable impact.