The Urban Core Mayors (UCM) is a bipartisan, multi-regional coalition of Michigan’s thirteen central city mayors intended to address areas of mutual concern as well as develop and implement an agenda for local and state policy for cities. Facilitated...

Domicology is the study of the economic, social, and environmental characteristics relating to the life cycle of the built environment. Cities around the United States have been dealing with the significant problem of structural abandonment for decad...

The 2022 Participatory Modeling Field School in Detroit, Michigan, features four days of hands-on workshops, keynote addresses by leaders in the participatory modeling (PM) field, and opportunities to learn about and model problems of concern to urba...

This project is developing a database to track students participating in the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP), which is designed to increase interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This project also assesse...

Co-lead on university-wide project seeking APLU IEP designation. Actions include conversations with internal and external stakeholders regarding Michigan State University relationship and initiatives in community and economic development with emphasi...

Held online and in person forums attended by local officials. Goal was to inform on the parameters of how American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds could be spent and better understand community needs.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are federally funded out-of-school time programs for high-poverty, low-performing schools administered by state departments of education. This project is an ongoing comprehensive evaluation of s...

The MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) at the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development is building a new economic development ecosystem by leveraging higher education assets to support the creation and applicati...

MSU student scholars work collaboratively with community partners, local organizations, and their fellow cohort members over the course of an academic year. The scope of each project will vary by partners, although all projects are focused on communi...

Students work with community partners on a variety of projects, including organizing food pantry, clothing closet, tool shed, working with seniors on yard work, blight removal, planting of trees, painting, etc.

MSU students work in a group for one day in the community.

Students serve on an immersive virtual experience throughout a semester to explore the possibilities for creating virtual volunteer opportunities for future MSU students and to assist with resource development projects.

Activities were designed to make college and career information accessible to a broad group of students and parents. They provide exposure to career fields through pre-college programs and community organizations working to engage young people in a v...

A multi-university effort to leverage and coordinate university resources in support of neighborhood initiatives in the HOPE Village community. It is an innovative model of community–campus collaboration which builds on the assets of all groups in or...

Wayne State University's Shiffman Medical Library serves as NLM National Outreach Library with the goal of disseminating trusted health care and scientific research to populations who have lacked access to and are underrepresented in medical research...

The mission of the MSU Science Festival is to celebrate the many ways science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (the STEAM disciplines) touch our everyday lives and shape our future, broaden public access to informal learning environment...

Redevelopment of a traveling exhibition, creation of an online version of the exhibition, and development of extensive educational curriculum materials and educational resources.

Documentation and presentation of the diverse folk and traditional arts of Michigan as well as nationally and internationally. This work is done in partnership with communities and traditional artists. University Outreach and Engagement, the MSU Muse...

MSU's Graduate Certification in Community Engagement prepares students for academic and professional careers that integrate scholarship with community engagement. The Certification is designed to help graduate and professional students develop system...

Our team is in the fourth and final year of an evaluation of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation of Metro Lansing. At the national level, the goal of TRHT is to "eradicate the belief in a racialized hierarchy of human value and the structural an...

The Office of College Access Initiatives: Project #1 Upward Bound of MSU To prepare college bound high school students for success in post-secondary institutions. To follow and support underrepresented youth in post-secondary institutions. Classes ...

We scheduled and executed 5 days of visits to MSU in Feb and March of 2020, before COVID forced us to cancel the remaining 5 dates of visits to MSU. For the 5 dates, we managed to bring 6th-12th grade students, their teachers and in some occasions f...

Saturday Academies are workshops that take place on MSU's campus, once a month. We were only able to fit one in before COVID shut us down and we had to cancel the remaining 3 Saturday programs. Saturday program was a way to connect our outreach in ...

The summer virtual program was created to fulfill a need for our program to have a summer presence as we had been describing to the students throughout the previous year. They had to attend a certain amount of Saturday programs to be invited to our S...

This charrette was a partnership between DNR-Wildlife Division and the National Charrette Institute; It focused on understanding what residents of Ionia and Montcalm counties know about chronic wasting disease in white tailed deer and what their info...