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Announcing the Fall 2024 Tiers 1 & 2 Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship Grant Recipients

16 projects were awarded more than $53,000 in funding. Featured photo: Shakespeare & Violence Prevention in Custer and Chaffee Counties

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The Office for Outreach and Engagement is now the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship

Same mission and team, new name.

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Community Perspectives Cohort members spark new connections in Southeast Colorado

In June 2024, the cohort traveled to Southeast Colorado for a listen-and-learn tour. Learn more about the program. 
Pictured: Danielle Berg, the Economic Development Coordinator for Otero County, speaks with Associate Professor Leilani Arthurs about potential collaboration.

The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship is the lead ²ÊÃñ±¦µä unit for building the campus’s capacity to undertake public and community-engaged scholarship.

We support community-engaged research, teaching and learning, and creative work of faculty and staff members, and we connect those activities to the broader campus context. Our approach values diverse traditions and methodologies from across academic disciplines and fields. Ultimately, the office contributes to a campus culture that recognizes public and community-engaged scholarship as essential to ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s mission as a public flagship and comprehensive research university.

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