In Practice
The Approach: Defined page discusses how MSU defines outreach and engagement. This page provides tools, best practices, and examples of outreach and engagement.
Tools
The Capable Communities Web site explains and demonstrates in depth an outcome- and asset-based model for community development that was created by University-Community Partnership's staff (Robert Brown and Celeste Sturdevant Reed) for human services professionals, faculty members, and community organizers. It provides a number of examples of where and how the model has been implemented.
Best Practices
Best Practice Briefs is a periodical of University-Community Partnerships, a department of the Office of University Outreach and Engagement. Each issue is comprised of concise articles aimed at presenting state-of-the-art knowledge about human services. Drawing on basic research, evaluation reports, and field experience, Best Practice Briefs offers the best current thinking about human service policy and program development, in an accessible user-friendly form.
Visit the Best Practice Briefs Web site for the current and back issues of the publications.
Examples of Outreach and Engagement
The following are selected project descriptions that demonstrate outreach and engagement work:
Cleaning Polluted Groundwater: The Schoolcraft Project
Michael J. Dybas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Microbial Ecology and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Revitalizing Communities: Small Town Design Initiative
Warren J. Rauhe, M.A., M.L.A., A.S.L.A.
Director, Small Town Design Initiative and Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, School of Planning, Design, and Construction
Developing Civic Literacy: The Service-Learning Writing Project
David D. Cooper, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Meeting the Nursing Shortage: RN Refresher Online
Teresa A. Wehrwein, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.A.A.
Assistant Dean for Professional Partnerships and Faculty Practice and Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Kathleen A. Kessler, R.N., M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.
Academic Specialist, College of Nursing
Saving Children's Lives: Chikankata Epilepsy and Febrile Seizure Study, Zambia
Gretchen Lano Birbeck, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program and Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology; Department of Epidemiology
Helping to Rebuild Rwanda: The PEARL Project
Daniel C. Clay, Ph.D.
Director, Institute of International Agriculture and Professor of Sociology
