The President's Engaged Scholarship Awards program recognizes individual faculty or faculty-staff teams from all disciplines for a project or activity that addresses a community need or larger social issue through mutually beneficial engagement with community partners. The program consists of the President's Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Awards and the President's Emerging Engaged Scholarship Award. The Excellence Awards provide recognition for one project or activity in each of the following realms of faculty work: Engaged Teaching, Engaged Research, Engaged Creative Activity, and Engaged Service. For further information and criteria, please click below.
For application guidelines and submissions, please log into Texas Tech Competition Space at ttu.infoready4.com.
Calendar Year 2021 Outreach and Engagement Assessment Underway!
The Office of the Provost and UO&E invite TTU faculty and staff to provide information on any academic work (teaching, research, creative activity, or service) conducted for, in, or in partnership with external communities between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. The submission deadline for Calendar Year 2021 activities is April 4, 2022.
To report please click below:
Faculty Reporting (Faculty Success; formerly Digital Measures)
In December 2021, University Outreach and Engagement published its annual report for 2020/2021 showcasing stories of engagement. The publication highlighted ways that TTU faculty, staff, and students engaged with communities to contribute their academic knowledge and expertise to improve the social, mental, and economic well-being of citizens and communities in the South Plains region and beyond. If you missed it, click the link below for the full report or request a printed copy by sending an e-mail to universityoutreachandengagement@ttu.edu
Announcing: Engaged Scholarship Seed Grant Program!
Accepting applications beginning March 15
The Office of the Provost and UO&E are pleased to announce the launch of a new competitive seed grant program to support TTU faculty in the development of an innovative engaged scholarship project. Applications for Academic Year 2022/23 will be accepted between March 15 and April 15, 2022.
For further information, contact Birgit Green at birgit.green@ttu.edu or 806-834-2308.
2022 Discoveries to Impact Conference March 28 - April 1, 2022
The Engaged Scholarship Symposium will feature the recipients of the 2022 President’s Engaged Scholarship Awards as well as panel discussions of engaged faculty, staff, and students who will share their strategies of working with communities.
Networking and Professional Development Opportunities in Engaged Scholarship!
Texas Tech Outreach and Engagement Mentoring Network Launching!
This spring, the Office of University Outreach and Engagement and the Office of the Provost will be launching an Outreach & Engagement Mentoring Network to support faculty from all disciplines and all ranks in their understanding and pursuit of engaged scholarship. Initial meetings of the network will be scheduled during the month of March, and faculty who responded to our survey about their interest in the network will be contacted with meeting dates to choose from.
If you are interested in joining the network as a mentor or mentee, but have not had a chance to respond to the survey, please follow the link to the Mentoring Survey.
Fall 2021 Workshops with Dr. Diane Doberneck - Recordings Now Available!
In November 2021, University Outreach and Engagement (UO&E) hosted guest speaker Dr. Diane Doberneck, Ph.D., Director for Faculty and Professional Development in the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship, at Michigan State University. Dr. Doberneck met with Texas Tech University leadership and presented two workshops while on campus.
The November 1 workshop “Recognizing Engaged Scholarship in Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure” was a collaboration between UO&E and the Teaching, Learning, & Professional Development Center’s Chair Academy. Over thirty department chairs attended the session where, led by Dr. Doberneck, they shared and discussed concepts and strategies for recognizing engaged scholarship in faculty reviews and P&T. Attendees were also presented with the primary characteristics of engaged scholarship, its disciplinary nuances, as well as ways of evaluating and measuring the quality of faculty engagement work.
On November 2, UO&E hosted the workshop “Community Engaged Scholarship: How to Create, Define, and Publish!” The session was attended by close to sixty faculty, staff, and graduate students interested in integrating community engagement into their teaching, research, and scholarship. The workshop focused on ways of implementing and publishing community-engaged scholarship, developing different types of publishable manuscripts, and finding appropriate venues for publishing.
Recordings of both workshop sessions are available:
For additional materials shared by Dr. Doeberneck during these workshops, please contact Lindsay Rigney at lindsay.rigney@ttu.edu.
You will find announcements about future workshops on the UO&E website
New: Social Entrepreneurship Program hosted by TTU Innovation Hub
Be the Change You Wish to See! Calling all entrepreneurs and innovators with new venture ideas that create change and make a social impact. The selected "social entrepreneurs" will become a part of the TTU Accelerator Program sponsored by the Innovation Hub and receive $25K, mentorship, and access to co-working space to help them develop a thriving, sustainable venture that makes a measurable impact on human lives and communities!
WHAT IS A SOCIAL INNOVATION? The design and implementation of a novel solution to a persistent social problem that creates value to society as a whole.
WHO SHOULD APPLY? Entrepreneurs with new venture ideas or existing non-profits or for-profits who are creating new, innovative ways to solve a social issue. Application Deadline: February 22, 2022.
For more information about the program and how to apply, click here; or contact Taysha Williams, Senior Director, at the Innovation Hub.
"The Impact of Engaged Scholarship: People, Purpose, and Passion" September 21 - 22, 2022 (Pre-Conference: September 19 - 20) in Athens, GA hosted by the ESC Southern Region and the University of Georgia
For conference information and proposal submissions, click here. Proposal Deadline: March 31, 2022
2022 ESC Welcome Video
Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop A Pre-Conference Event of the 2022 ESC Annual Conference
This intensive professional development program provides advanced doctoral students and early career faculty with background literature, facilitated discussion, mentoring, and presentations designed to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of community engaged scholarship. Participation is limited, and interested applicants must be nominated to be considered for this workshop.
Sponsored by Michigan State University For early career, tenure-track faculty and advanced graduate students!
June 6-10, 2022 Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan $550 for MSU participants; $650 for non-MSU participants Application Deadline: April 4, 2022
Michigan State University's Office for University Outreach and Engagement will host the fifth annual Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship. MSU welcomes community-engaged scholars and practitioners with interests in community-engaged research and community-engaged teaching and learning, including service-learning, informal learning, and community-engaged research in courses. Through interactive workshops, field trips, lightning talks, case studies, panel discussions, and individual consultations, Summer Intensive participants explore big picture issues related to community-engagement in a learning community setting and develop strategies and plans for their own successful engagement activities. At the end of four days, they will come away with:
Conceptual frameworks and scholarly resources
Perspectives from community partners on engagement
Practical partnership, collaboration, and evaluation tools
Career advice from successfully tenured community-engaged faculty
Strategies for publishing your community-engaged scholarship
Ideas for sharing your community-engaged work with practitioner and public audiences
New national community-engaged peers and colleagues
For more information and to apply, visit Summer Intensive; or contact:
Diane M. Doberneck (msu.ces.summer.intensive@gmail.com) Director for Faculty and Professional Development University Outreach and Engagement
TTU Outreach and Engagement Upcoming Event
The Terry and Jo Harvey Allen Center for Creative Studies Presents "Three Women - Three Films!"
Students, faculty, and the Lubbock community are invited to experience and discuss the works of Sara Driver, Anne Rapp, and Tamara Saviano; three women filmmakers who will share their processes of completing projects in a male-dominated industry.
Each showing will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Paul Hunton, the director of Texas Tech’s public television station (KTTZ). All three directors will be present for a moderated discussion on the final night, March 24, 2022.
We are inviting faculty and staff to submit their outreach and engagement activities for highlighting on the Engage at Tech Central Site. Simply complete the O&E Information Form to submit your information.
University Outreach and Engagement strengthens Texas Tech's ability to achieve excellence in Outreach and Engaged Scholarship by serving as a Catalyst, Collaborator, and Connector.
Contact Us: University Outreach and Engagement, Texas Tech University Drane Hall | 2515 15th Street Box 41047 | Lubbock, Texas 79409 universityoutreachandengagement@ttu.edu | 806.742.2392
