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The Office for Public Engagement works to enhance the University of Minnesota’s activities and stature as a publicly engaged research university. More about OPE.

Public Engagement News

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Task Force on Faculty Scholarship, Development, and Rewards Final Report

The Task Force on Faculty Scholarship, Development, and Rewards was charged with articulating a set of institutional policies and practices to enhance faculty members’ capacity to participate in engagement initiatives and to support their engaged research and teaching. The Task Force report presents a set of recommendations for advancing this work. Download the final report (PDF format).

 

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Student Scholar and Public Engagement Showcase, October 7, 2009

1:00-4:00 pm, Concourse of the new TCF Bank Stadium

This unique Homecoming event provides a forum for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students and recent alumni to celebrate their academic achievements in terms of research, capstone experiences, design, or original artistic creations.  Also, faculty and staff, as well as their community partners, will highlight their collaborative initiatives around teaching, research, and community-based service.  This showcase will feature a broad range of local, regional, national, and international topics and provide attendees with a sense of the wide range and scope of the academic and engagement endeavors here at the University of Minnesota.

To participate in the Public Engagement Showcase, please register or call Michelle Wittcoff Kuhl (witt0160@umn.edu, 612-624-1562) with any questions.

All are invited to join in this important celebration.  Reduced parking rates will be in effect, at the lots ajacent to the stadium (map).

Sponsors include the Office for Public Engagement, Office for Student Affairs, Office of the Senior Vice President for System Academic Administration, Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, Office for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Office for Undergraduate Education, Office of the Vice President for Research, Office for Equity and Diversity, Office of Human Resources, The Graduate School, Council of Graduate Students, Graduate and Professional Student Association, and Minnesota Student Association.

 

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