Apply for this grant to develop a learning community where your faculty and staff can strengthen their knowledge of community engagement.  Supports institutions in designing and implementing an intentional combination of professional development workshops and learning communities aimed at better preparing faculty and staff to implement high-quality community engagement practices. Grantees are encouraged to design programs that encourage faculty and staff to work across disciplines and to infuse curricular and co-curricular experiences where appropriate. They are also encouraged to think about how the program can encourage participants to produce public scholarship with their students and community partners. Grantee institutions are to establish a committee charged with the oversight of the program with the overall goal of sustaining it beyond the grant period.  

Typical Implementing an Engaged-Scholars Learning Community Grant projects may occur over an academic semester, academic year, or summer as determined by the Primary Investigator(s).

The Grant Program goals are:

1. Support institutions in the implementation of faculty and staff professional development focused on community engagement practices.
2. Increase the number of high-quality, place-based experiences where members of the institution partner with members of the local community.
3. Increase the number of authentic reciprocal community-campus partnerships.
4. Support inter- and intra-institutional collaborations between faculty and staff throughout Indiana.
5. Support the dissemination of examples of high-quality campus-wide community engagement practices as a means of broadening the field.