Community Engaged Scholars Program accepting applicants for fall 2025

The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) is now recruiting faculty for the 2025 Fall Community Engaged Scholars Program. The program is a professional development training on community engagement, a high impact practice of experiential learning. Interested faculty and staff can .

The Community Engaged Scholars Program provides participants with an introduction to critical approaches to service-learning, with the intention to increase access to curricular community engagement across the institution. Participants in the program will review 花季传媒鈥檚 policies regarding service-learning, learn how community engaged learning can be incorporated into a course curriculum, and be apprised of local community partners and how to implement best practices locally and globally.

鈥淚n community-based approaches, faculty get to go out and do some meaningful work and give students an opportunity to understand and learn some of the civic ethos that we want,鈥� said CCE Faculty Fellow Dr. Mike Kopish. 鈥淚t鈥檚 really focused on developing high quality citizens, which is a key goal of our institution.鈥�

The program is delivered in a hybrid model. Participants will meet in-person on the Athens campus in hour long sessions on the first Friday of every month during fall semester and review self-guided online modules between cohort meetings.

鈥淭he best part of the program was the chance to workshop with colleagues鈥攖o get immediate and thoughtful feedback from various perspectives on my ideas, to find my blind spots, and to gain inspiration from seeing what others were working on,鈥� said Dr. Greg Newton, associate dean for graduate studies, research, and creative activity, who is an alumnus of the program. 鈥淚 also found it helpful to just have an incentive to carve out the space to think through the design process in a more holistic and structured way than I had previously.鈥�

By participating in thought provoking online modules, rich discussions, and collaborations with experts, Community Engaged Scholars will develop capacity for community engaged teaching with transformative curriculum and expertise in community engaged scholarly activity that strengthen our democracy and contribute to the public good. C-Courses qualify for the OHIO Honors Program's curriculum requirements, General Education Learning and Doing Credit, and are eligible to receive $1,000 mini-grants each semester.

Please reach out to CCE Director Mary Nally with questions at nallym@ohio.edu.