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Directed by Dr. Shannon Speed, Assistant Vice President, and Associate Professor in Anthropology
The Office of Community Engagement focuses on:
- Community Engagement centers on promotion and coordination of services, pedagogy, and research for communities historically underserved by the university and encompasses several areas.
Programs in this portfolio include:
Indigenous Studies Initiatives – Dr. Shannon Speed, Director
… seeks to make the university a unique and outstanding center for engaged research and dialogue with indigenous peoples throughout the hemisphere through a collaborative project of an interdisciplinary core group of faculty from Liberal Arts, Education, Information Sciences, and Law that conducts a speakers series and offers a graduate portfolio in the M.A. and Ph.D. levels in Indigenous Studies
Community Engagement Incubator – Dr. Eric Tang, Director and Assistant Professor, Center for African and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
... works to facilitate and strengthen collaborative university-community research projects toward greater social justice
Free Minds Project – Vive Griffith, Director
The Free Minds Project provides Central Texas adults living on low to moderate incomes with a chance to fulfill their intellectual potential and to "jumpstart" their college education. In the Free Minds Project, students explore new ways of thinking about themselves and about their world by studying important works of literature, history, philosophy, and art.
Volunteer and Service Learning Center – Glen Baumgart, Director
…provides volunteer opportunities for university students, and recruits over 8,000 student volunteers each year for service projects; Strengthens healthy relationships between students and their communities; facilitates UT Student Volunteer Board and The Project Service Event, student organizations that promote and coordinate community engagement activities and events for the whole campus, and provide students opportunities to make a difference in the community and provides resources and logistical support for students interested or enrolled in service learning courses, for faculty currently teaching or desiring to teach a service learning course and for community agencies interested in partnering with UT faculty and service learning students.
Regional Foundation Library (RFL) – Allison Chandler Supancic, Director and Librarian
… provides comprehensive education and resources to all individuals and organizations involved in grant –making, grant-seeking and funding development
Institute for Community, University and School Partnerships (ICUSP) – Dr. Kevin Foster, Director
… builds community partnerships to increase student achievement and college-readiness in students who typically would not consider college a viable option through research and services provided through an action research center and a faculty and student-based collaboration.
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Community Engagement
Dr. Shannon Speed, Assistant Vice President, and Associate Professor in Anthropology
Dr. Eric Tang, Director,
Community Engagement Incubator
Dr. Deborah Paredez,Director, Arts and Community Engagement
Glen Baumgart, Director, Volunteer and Service Learning Center
Vive Griffith, Director, Free Minds Project
Allison Chandler Supancic, Director and Librarian
Dr. Kevin Foster, Director, Institute for Community, University and School Partnerships
Mr. Freddie Dixon, Director of Community Outreach
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