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Outreach Scholarship 2004 offers a wide range of learning opportunities designed to broaden and deepen your understanding of community-university engagement. You will benefit from the rich informal exchange between community-university partners and your fellow conference participants.

  • Stimulating general session speakers
  • Paper presentations
  • Interactive workshops
  • Poster sessions

    7 Reasons to Participate in the Conference
    You can learn how to:

  • Improve access and coordination of university-community engagement programs, services, and resources
  • Identify new resources and partnerships to support outreach programming
  • Employ strategies to ensure program impact
  • Identify innovative techniques for faculty research dissemination
  • Advance and incorporate best practices in outreach scholarship
  • Communicate the value of university engagement to decision makers and the public
  • Renew your commitment to outreach scholarship and engagement activities

    Who Should Submit Proposals
    If you are, or want to become, involved in communities through research, teaching, and outreach, you are encouraged to submit a proposal. Proposals should highlight activities that enhance community capacity building through partnerships between communities and the university.

    We invite proposals from university faculty and staff; college, university, and community leaders; and outreach practitioners who work in the areas of:

  • research, teaching, outreach scholarship
  • grants, contracts, sponsored programs
  • community-university collaborations
  • cooperative extension
  • continuing education
  • distance education
  • governmental affairs
  • public broadcasting
  • technology transfer
  • university development
  • university relations
  • university alumni
  • other outreach activities


    Learning Tracks
    1. Planning for Impact
    2. Measuring and Analyzing Impact
    3. Involving Stakeholders for High Impact
    4. Institutionalizing Approaches for Maximum Impact
    5. Optimizing the Impact of Faculty Research
    6. Documenting and Communicating Impact
    7. Delivering High Impact Programs in Key Theme Areas
    "There is emerging a renewed commitment to outreach, to students, to progress, recognizing that higher education must keep up with the profound changes that are taking place in society if universities are to remain centers of learning in the future."
    -Graham Spanier, President, Penn State



    an annual conference sponsored by:

    The Penn State University
    The University of Georgia The Ohio State University
    The University of Wisconsin-Extension
    The University of Georgia The Ohio State University


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    This page was last modified on Wednesday, June 22, 2005.
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