Attention: Early career, tenure-track faculty and advanced graduate students seeking faculty or staff positions in higher education Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement is hosting a Summer Intensive that will focus on community-engaged research and community-engaged teaching and learning, including service-learning and community-based research in classes. The Summer Intensive is composed of interactive workshops, lunches in disciplinary clusters and with senior community-engaged scholars, dialogue with community partners, and time to develop your own community engagement plan for your return to campus. At the end of four days, you will come away with: Conceptual frameworks and scholarly resources Practical partnership, collaboration, and evaluation tools Perspectives from community partners on engagement Career advice from senior community-engaged scholars about promotion and tenure Strategies for publishing community-engaged scholarship Strategies for translating university knowledge for public audiences Support from a network of interdisciplinary colleagues Online applications due: April 5, 2019. Click here for application and more information.

Michigan State University’s Office for Education Abroad is partnering with Adanu (a Ghanaian-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) to offer an innovative international  symposium on Global Community-Engaged Learning. This symposium will discuss best practices in the field of Global Community-Engaged Learning. Participants will visit Ghanaian community partners and speak with community members while learning with and from each other about key elements of Global Community-Engaged Learning, program design, facilitation, and assessment. Participants in the symposium will gain an understanding of: Key principles of global community –engaged learning Elements of successful community –university partnerships Intentional community-engaged learning program design Strategies for connecting U.S./Africa higher institutions in the field of community-engaged learning and teaching Possibilities and risks associated with Global community-engaged learning Program assessment and evaluation Click here for more information and to register.