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Submit your Applications for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship Grants, Tiers 3 & 4

Tiers 3 and 4 grants fund faculty-led public and community-engaged scholarship that connects research, teaching and creative work with public needs and interests. Apply by Fri., April 18, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.

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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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PACES Reading Group meets on March 20

Join the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) for our monthly reading group! This month, we are reading “Centering and uplifting youth voice in planning for a more resilient climate future in rural Colorado: a case study of a student resilience team asking for change” (Schloesser et. al.)

RSVP here or let us know what topics or readings interest you for future meetings.

The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship is the lead CU Boulder 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 CU Boulder’s mission as a public flagship and comprehensive research university.

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Words of Hope: Revitalizing the Zapotec Language

As many languages face endangerment or extinction in the coming years, Associate Teaching Professor Rai Farrelly and Assistant Professor Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo are working together with community members and CU Boulder students to support and sustain efforts to revitalize the use of the Zapotec languages within Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico.

Graduate Students Benefit as Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholars

Since 2018, the Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars program has given 40 students the opportunity and resources to apply tools of the arts and humanities to public and community-engaged scholarship projects.  

The program is now welcoming new graduate students for the 2025-2027 cohort. Visit the program webpage.

Chancellor commits campus to Carnegie elective classification application

Chancellor Justin Schwartz is asking CU Boulder's faculty, staff and administration to join him in prioritizing the attainment of the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement.

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