Exploring the Potential of Partnerships
As a university-wide support unit, Public Scholarship and Engagement has been developing pilot projects with UC Davis colleges, schools, and other academic units. These collaborative projects are designed to explore and evaluate the strength and efficacy of interdisciplinary engagement efforts. Future possibilities might include engagement action plans, coordination mechanisms to support curriculum-based projects with non-university groups, and document templates for memoranda of agreements, community IRBs, scopes of work, among others
Charting the Future of Experiential Learning
In an effort to promote and support coordinated university-wide engaged learning experiences that incorporate collaborative leadership, creative problem-solving activities, intercultural engagement, and global learning, Public Scholarship and Engagement, the Internship and Career Center, Global Affairs, Undergraduate Education, and the Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship held a workshop in February 2020 focused on experiential learning.
Communicating the Value of Research to Public Audiences
In partnership with Grad Pathways Institute in Graduate Studies, Public Scholarship and Engagement leads interactive workshops to provide graduate students from across disciplines with public communication strategies. The goal of the workshop was to guide participants in identifying their goals and objectives in reaching non-university audiences, developing audience profiles and honing messaging that resonates.
Cultivating Community Based Global Learning Through Course Curricula
Working with Global Affairs to further integrate public scholarship within UC Davis’ colleges, schools, and other academic units to support activities and increase outputs, Public Scholarship and Engagement leads faculty and instructor curriculum enhancement workshops focused on community-based global learning featuring panelists from the Center for Regional Change, the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, the Department of Chicana/o Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Grant Writing Workshop with the Global Learning Hub
To increase opportunities for students to participate in community engagement domestically and internationally through coursework, internships, and independent studies, Public Scholarship and Engagement partnered with the Blum Center for Developing Economies within Global Affairs. For the past two years, PSE staff member Dr. Ingrid Behrsin has taught an eight-week grant-writing course for undergraduate students culminating in student applications for Poverty Alleviation Through Action grants. Learn more about the workshop.