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Event Category: Teaching & Learning

October
14
2025

Creating or Refining Your Community-Engaged Learning Syllabus

Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Zoom (UOE)

This session will discuss elements of designing a syllabus to outline the community-engaged learning experience and requirements, highlight community partnership, and build in reflection opportunities. We will draw from sample syllabi, templates, and peer testimonials to assist instructors in shaping plans for future courses. Register to attend.

September
11
2025

Deepening Community-Campus Partnerships Through Critical Reflection on Partnership Dynamics (Session 2)

ATTENTION: FACULTY, ACADEMIC STAFF, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS September 11, 2025 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Location TBD At the heart of impactful community-engaged scholarship lie strong, trusting, and mutually beneficial partnerships between communities and academic institutions. Yet, amid the demands of daily work, we often miss the opportunity to pause, reflect on the health […]

September
9
2025

Fall 2025 Academic Lunch and Learn Sessions

Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
MSU Library @ 366 W Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, Room W207

Join us for these opportunities to learn, connect with others, and make meaningful contributions–to share excitement about one’s field with other learners, to advance the knowledge base, and to use one’s expertise to address pressing issues at MSU and in the broader society. Faculty and academic staff in all appointment types are invited to attend. […]

August
1
2025

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-In

Attention: Faculty, Academic Staff, and Graduate Students Would scheduling regular, specific times to write about your outreach or engagement work be helpful? If so, please join us on the first Friday of each month for three hours of dedicated time to advance your scholarship. Past participants have written journal articles, grant proposals, book chapters, theses […]

April
16
2025

The Community-Engaged Learning Student Experience

Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, 9:30 am - 10:50 am
Zoom (UOE)

This session will help practitioners think through the community-engaged learning experience from the student perspective. What are the benefits and challenges for our students, and what is our responsibility as practitioners to ensure students are prepared? How can we really work toward a transformative learning experience? Click here to register

April
10
2025

NCFDD Live on Zoom: SKILL #4: Mastering Academic Time Management

Thursday, April 10th, 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Tags: Faculty

Presented by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Facilitator: Joy Gaston Gayles, PhD **Please join us on Zoom for this presentation** Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 832 2153 4381 Passcode: 018415 New faculty members commonly describe: Working long hours but making little progress on their research and writing A sense of loneliness […]

March
13
2025

NCFDD Live on Zoom: SKILL #3: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice

Thursday, March 13th, 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Tags: Faculty

Presented by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Facilitator: Angelique Davis, JD **Please join us on Zoom for this presentation** Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 839 6886 7108 Passcode: 966412 Are you sick of working all the time without making progress on your writing projects? Are you tired of your deadline-driven, binge-and-bust […]

March
11
2025

The Path to Promotion 2.0 Series for Academic Specialists: Using Evidence to Make Your Case

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Main Library, Room W207 @ 366 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, United States

The Path to Promotion 2.0 A Learning Community for Academic Specialists ​This learning community builds upon the Path to Promotion webinar and workshop series from spring 2024. In it, specialists from MSU across functional areas will gather to study the reappointment, award of continuing status, and promotion processes in the academic specialist appointment system. Across […]

February
21
2025

Achieving Broader Impacts of Research Through Policy Change

Want to inform today’s policy debates? Looking for innovative and creative ways to amplify your research in policy-making circles? Seeking new ways to share your research findings with those who are at the forefront of policy discussions? Policy makers are seeking contextual information along with the facts and evidence to address society’s greatest problems. Often, […]

February
21
2025

Fundamentals of Publishing Your Community-Engaged Scholarship

Friday, February 21st, 2025, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Zoom (UOE)

Do you have a great service-learning, outreach teaching, or community-engaged research project, but are not sure how to write it up for a peer-reviewed publication? Are you having trouble thinking about how to frame your article, describe your engagement process, or incorporate community partner voice into your writing? If so, join us for part one […]