University Outreach & Engagement: Summer Intensive on Community
Attention: Early career, tenure-track faculty and advanced graduate students
Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship
June 1-5, 2026
Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan
$595 for MSU participants; $695 for non-MSU participants
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 10, 2026
Michigan State University's Office for University Outreach and Engagement is pleased to host the eighth annual Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship. We welcome 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, you 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, please contact:
Diane M. Doberneck (msu.ces.summer.intensive@gmail.com)
Director for Faculty and Professional Development
Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship
University Outreach and Engagement