Engaging Scholarship for Public Impact

Goal:

KU will engage local, state, national, and global communities as partners in scholarly activities that have direct public impact.

Outcomes:

1. Recognition, facilitation, and support of engaged scholarship.
2. Mutually productive partnerships with the community for engaged scholarship.
3. Learning and scholarship experiences for students.
4. Increase in scholarly activities by leveraging existing community engagement activities.

Examples:

The work group on Engaging Scholarship for Public Impact (ESPI) is in the process of gathering examples of work by KU researchers who are conducting engaged scholarship. We are looking for recently completed and ongoing projects that are consistent with the work group's goal:

KU will engage in local, state, national, and global communities as partners in scholarly activities that have direct public impact.

Included below are some excellent examples of engaged scholarship. If you would like your work added, please use the web form below. There is a great deal of exciting work going on at KU and this is one way to share you work with the campus community.

• Yo Jackson: SPARK Project
• Steve Barlow: NTrainer System
• Don Stull: Impact of the Meatpacking Industry and Immigration
• Jomella Watson-Thompson: Youth Development in Wyandotte County
• Rick Ginsberg and Karen Multon: School Superintendents
• Donna Ginther: Improvements in P-20 education/Scientific Labor Markets
• Leisha Dehart Davis: Feedback on Workplace Issues
• Alice Lieberman: Kansas Workforce Initiative/Generations Project/Safe and Stable Families
• Raquel Alexander: The Tax and Business Climate in Kansas
• William Keel, Chris Johnson and Gabriele Lunte: German Settlement Dialects of Kansas
• Dale Walker, Steve Warren, Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Atwater: Center for Promoting Language and Literacy Readiness
• Steven W. Lee and Julia Shaftel: Classroom Behavior and Asset Scale
• Paul Atchley: Impacting the Distracted Driving Epidemic

• Engaging Scholarship for Public Impact
  • Roster (63 KB)
  • Final Work Group Report (154 KB)
  • Strategic Map (97 KB)

• November 8, 2010
  Agenda (50 KB)
  Minutes (14 KB)
• November 22, 2010
  Agenda (43 KB)
  Minutes (9 KB)
  ESPI Subgroup Charges (87 KB)
• December 3, 2010 – Definitions and Models Subgroup
  Agenda (27 KB)
  Minutes (48 KB)
• December 9, 2010 – Experts and Consultants Subgroup
  Agenda (28 KB)
  Minutes (50 KB)
• December 12, 2010 – Surveys and Baselines Subgroup
  Agenda (54 KB)
  Minutes (46 KB)
• December 21, 2010 – Experts and Consultants Subgroup
  Agenda (33 KB)
  Minutes (52 KB)
• January 14, 2011 – Surveys and Baselines Focus Group
  Agenda (88 KB)
• January 19, 2011 – Surveys and Baselines Focus Group
  Agenda (88 KB)
• January 25, 2011 – Surveys and Baselines Focus Group
  Agenda (89 KB)
• January 25, 2011 – Experts and Consultants Focus Group
  Agenda (88 KB)