Professional development opportunities enhance faculty’s service learning or community engaged research efforts.

Engaged Scholarship Consortium

• Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW) is an intensive professional development program that provides advanced doctoral students and early career faculty with background literature, facilitated discussion, mentoring, and presentations designed to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of community-engaged scholarship.
• Engagement Academy for University Leaders (EA) is a professional development program designed to help higher education leaders develop collaborative relationships with external partners in a way that helps institutions and communities thrive.

  in a way that helps institutions and communities thrive.

• Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network (OEPN) is a community of practice for university staff, non-tenure-track faculty, and community partners. The workshop offers outreach and engagement practitioners the chance to develop skills and identify ways to advocate strategically for and lead outreach and engagement work.

Imagining America

• Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship is Imagining America’s (IA) network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.

Through identifying and securing extramural funding for engaged work. Funding has been secured from diverse sources including:

USDA - AFRI ;USDA - Center for Disease Control ; USDA – Kansas Rural Development ; National Science Foundation ; Kansas Government; Department of Commerce ; Kansas Department of Creative Arts and Industries Commission ; Philanthropic Foundations (Kansas Health Foundation; Sunflower Foundation); Research Foundations (Kettering Foundation; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Heartland Foundation; Interactivity Foundation) ; Humanities Council; North Central Regional Center for Rural Development

Through annual evaluation, tenure and promotional policies.

Examples of this work are:

• Work with colleges and departments and advocates for greater recognition of engaged work through annual evaluation and tenure and promotion policies
• Work with the Faculty Affairs committee of the Faculty Senate to explore a definition of engagement for the University Handbook.