Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship
Since 2001, the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship has served as CU Boulder’s lead unit for building the campus’s capacity to undertake engaged research, teaching and creative work. Our office supports a campus culture and structures that enable and reward faculty and staff members for public and community-engaged scholarship. Doing so, we help CU Boulder realize its mission as a comprehensive, public research university.
The Office for Faculty Affairs, the Research and Innovation Office, CU Engage, and Service Learning & Impact in Community Engagement (formerly the Volunteer Resource Center) support public and community-engaged scholarship as a subset of their work. We encourage you to visit their websites to learn more about their focuses on behalf of CU Boulder.
What Public and Community-Engaged Scholars Have to Say

"The way community members can amplify scholarly instincts and connect scholars to the people already doing the work is valuable. We’re [scholars] investing in big systems and institutions, but engaging with the people inside them helps us understand practical limitations and opportunities."
Associate Professor Leah Sprain · Higher Education and Democracy Fellow, 2023-24

“ It is [hard] to quantify the influence that outreach awards and discussions with the Office for Outreach and Engagement have had on the way I think about my scholarship and the field as a whole. My whole professional development and world view has been shaped by this work.”
- Associate Professor Eliana Colunga · Building Early Language and Math Together · Communities Code: Engaging Underrepresented Youth in Creative Computing · Co-Designing an Early Education Program for Children Birth to Three · Conversations About Growing Up With Two Languages