Engagement Scholarship Consortium International Conference Mobilizing Change through Engaged Scholarship
October 4-5, 2023
Pre-Conference: October 2-3
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Hosted by Michigan State University and the member institutions of the ESC North Central Region
Speakers
Welcome
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
Speakers:
Kwesi Brookins
Vice Provost
University Outreach and Engagement
Michigan State University
Laurie Van Egeren
President
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
Thomas Jeitschko
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Michigan State University
Don Lyons
Citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibway and Descendant of Six Nations Mohawk
Plenary Session: The State of Community Engagement Scholarship in Higher Education
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time
The conference's opening plenary session features a panel of leaders of key professional associations and organizations that support and advocate for community engagement. Moderator Kelli Huth will lead a discussion focused on panelists' perspectives on broad questions about the current state of community engagement in higher education. This session will offer attendees insights from leaders deeply grounded in the work of advancing and promoting community-engaged scholarship and university outreach, and it will offer panelists the chance to engage in a thoughtful exchange aimed at bringing to light issues of common concern and opportunities for common cause.
Panelists:
Bobbie Laur
President
Campus Compact
Sharon Paynter
Vice-Chair, Commission on Economic and Community Engagement
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Nicole Webster
Chair, Board of Directors
International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Laurie Van Egeren
President
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
Moderator:
Kelli Huth
Associate Vice President for Community Engagement
Ball State University
Plenary Session: Context and Prospects for Community-Engaged Scholarship with Indigenous Communities
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 8:45 - 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time
There is growing interest among scholars, professional practitioners, and students in learning more about the issues, concerns, and opportunities surrounding community-engaged scholarship in collaboration with tribes and native communities. In this session, a knowledgeable nationally noted speaker and faculty discussant will explore and offer insights about the context of historical relationships between native people, universities, and academic researchers, and what prospects it shapes for building strong and ethical collaborative relationships with tribes and native partners today.
Speaker:
Karen R. Diver
Senior Advisor to the President for Native American Affairs
Office of the President
University of Minnesota
Discussant:
Gordon Henry, Jr.
Professor, College of Arts and Letters
Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies
Michigan State University
Editor's Panel
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time
A panel discussion among editors of journals publishing community-engaged scholarship. The editors will discuss the mission and scope of their journals. They will also offer insights into publishing scholarship in professional, academic journals.
Panelists:
Shannon Brooks
Editor
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
Marybeth Lima
Editor
Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship
Savathrie (Margie) Maistry
Editor
African Journal of Higher Education Community Engagement
Catherine Stemmans Paterson
Editor
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
Nicole Springer
Editor
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Moderator:
Andrew Furco
Professor
University of Minnesota
Plenary Session: Community-University Engagement: Perspectives from the Global Majority
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time (over lunch)
Panelists working in Africa, Asia, South America, and North America will draw on their diverse experiences to speak to similarities, differences, best practices, and place-based innovations that they are advancing within community-university engagement toward building sustainable partnerships. They will address the co-construction and co-production of knowledge, and how this approach is generating and sustaining social centric solutions from within communities themselves. Through their different approaches to community-engaged research, panelists will demonstrate pragmatic efforts to embed the community into the university and make the case for knowledge democracy, open science, and the transformation of higher education. Among other topics, the panelists will discuss place-based methodological and epistemological innovations and UNESCO’s Knowledge for Change (K4C) International Consortium for Education in Community-Based Research and Community Scholars Fund.
Panelists:
Irma Alicia Flores Hinojos
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
Universidad of los Andes, Colombia
Budd L. Hall
Co-Chair, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Nkatha Mercy
Community Engaged Research Assistant and Doctoral Student, Department of Geology and Geography
West Virginia University
David Monk
Lecturer and Coordinator, Centre for Community Based Participatory Research
Gulu University (Uganda)
Mahazan Abdul Mutalib
Associate Professor and Principal Researcher, Mizan Research Centre, Faculty of Leadership and Management
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
René Oosthuizen
Academic Coordinator, Community Engagement Division
Rhodes University (South Africa)