The ESC provides resources to expand community-engaged scholarship at UMB.
The Office of Community and Civic Engagement proudly announces UMB’s membership in the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), the premier organization for higher education institutions that are committed to engagement. ESC works collaboratively with institutions to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.
Our ESC membership offers value to UMB faculty, staff, and students in these ways:
Benefits for university leaders
- Engagement Academy for university leaders
- Monthly Engagement Exchange for leaders
- Regional conference support
- ESC leadership roles for current and emerging leaders
Benefits for faculty, staff and students
- Professional development on engagement topics (virtual throughout the year)
- Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop
- Outreach and Engagement Professionals Network
- ESC small grants program
- ESC awards program
ESC also has a broad scholarly agenda that includes:
- Researching and studying the scholarship of engagement throughout the world.
- Facilitating the adoption of engaged scholarship within faculty performance evaluations.
- Encouraging the realization that the scholarship of engagement is a critical aspect of university responsibility.
- Promoting research and study of the impacts of community-campus partnerships.
- Conducting national and international meetings, workshops, institutes, symposia, conferences, and congresses.
- Disseminating research (original, basic, and applied) from a wide variety of disciplines on the impact of campus-community partnerships.
- Publishing and disseminating, through print and electronic media, research on the scholarship of engagement through newsletters, books, monographs, reports, studies, and periodicals.
About the Engagement Scholarship Consortium
ESC is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization composed of higher education member institutions, a mix of state public and private institutions.
ESC traces its origins back a decade when Pennsylvania State University, Ohio State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Extension initiated an annual meeting to share knowledge about their community-based programs (the National Outreach Scholarship Conference). Since then, recognizing that multi-institutional efforts could help catalyze some of the changes they wanted for their own institutions, ESC emerged.
Please be on the lookout for ESC offerings in "The Elm." To sign up for ESC communications directly, please visit https://engagementscholarship.org/form/signup.
For more information, please visit https://engagementscholarship.org/