Engaged Scholarship

Where academic excellence meets community impact

The Engaged Scholarship team transforms how Kansas State University connects with communities across our state, creating powerful partnerships that amplify both academic excellence and community development. We bridge the gap between university research and real-world challenges, ensuring K-State's scholarly work directly serves Kansas communities while enriching the educational experience for our students and faculty.

Through strategic community-university collaborations, we identify Kansas's most pressing needs and mobilize our academic community to address them through meaningful, reciprocal partnerships. This approach strengthens both our research and teaching missions while creating lasting positive change in communities statewide.

On campus, we champion and support faculty, staff and students engaged in community-focused work. In communities, we serve as your direct connection to K-State's expertise and resources. Whether you're working on economic development, public health initiatives, arts programming, environmental stewardship or community visioning, our partnerships create solutions that benefit everyone involved.