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Faculty and Staff Partners

Establish Partnerships with Community Groups

If you are interested in establishing a partnership with the community to work on a specific research issue, University-Community Partnerships (UCP) can help you broker a relationship. UCP staff, specialists, and researchers have established connections across the state within a number of areas such as education, mental health, human service, business, and government.

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Collaborate with Faculty and Staff from Other Departments on Community-Based Research

University-Community Partnerships (UCP) is facilitating networks within the MSU community to create greater communication, research, and funding opportunities through multidisciplinary collaboration.

AKTL (Advancing Knowledge Transforming Lives) Networks have been created in major geographic areas across Michigan--Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, and the Upper Peninsula. These networks bring together faculty and staff who collaborate with community agencies, organizations, schools, public institutions, and businesses. The primary aim of these networks is to enhance communication among MSU scholars who do work in the same geographic area and to encourage multidisciplinary work.

UCP has created an ANGEL group of faculty and staff who are interested in communicating and collaborating with others who do work in the various AKTL areas. If you are interested in joining this ANGEL group, please contact us at partners@msu.edu.

Engagement Specialists' 'Confab' (short for Confabulation) is a network that brings together MSU engagement specialists and other staff who have outreach and engagement job responsibilities. This group of individuals is an important part of the academic community that nurtures and facilitates MSU's links with schools, businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other public and private institutions. Confab's purpose is to:

  • Coordinate, design, and implement engagement teams that will support new and existing AKTLs--networks of connection between the University and communities.
  • Increase the competency of engagement work across the University by building engagement skills and promoting best practice techniques, methods, and models.
  • Promote scholarship-based engagement, including the promotion of best practice evaluative strategies for measuring the effectiveness of the act of engagement.

Contact us at partners@msu.edu for more information.

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Find Support for Community-Based Research Initiatives

University-Community Partnerships (UCP) provides support services for faculty and staff who engage in community-based research. The support that UCP provides includes:

  • Facilitating partnerships with community groups
  • Training on effective community-based research and evidence-based approaches
  • Identifying community-based research funding opportunities
  • Grant-writing help

For more information, contact Laurie Van Egeren, Assistant Director of University-Community Partnerships, Research and Evaluation.

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