University of Louisville
2309 S 3rd St
Louisville, KY 40208
Community Engagement Town Hall
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Venue: Virtual via MS Teams
Presentations
Title: Business Students and West End Community Leaders: Collaborate to Promote Economic Development
Presenters: Anne Marie Zwerg, Assoc. Professor of Management. College of Business
Description:
College of Business students and West End community leaders collaborate to identify community needs for businesses & services and the available real estate for entrepreneurial ventures to meet these community needs. Students received guided tours of West End neighborhoods, spoke with community organizers, and surveyed residents and existing business owners to identify paths for future entrepreneurial ventures. Students then identified a geographic corridor that would provide the necessary infrastructure to support burgeoning entrepreneurs to meet community needs.
Title: "CeLOUbrate Print: A Community Printmaking Project"
Presenters: Rachel Singel, Associate Professor, Hite Institute of Art and Design, Department of Art & Design, Erica Lewis, Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Humanities
Description:
Hosted by the Portland Museum, CeLOUbrate Print is a community printmaking project with free, local woodcut workshops and a culminating event, during which we steamroll printed woodcuts, demonstrated other processes, and hosted an exhibition of Louisville prints. Learned how community-based learning and teaching incorporated outreach in this project.
Bridging The Public Divide Through University-Community Partnerships
Friday March 21, 2025
Clinical and Translational Research Building
Health Science Campus
9:00am-3:00pm
The theme for the 2025 Engaged Scholarship Symposium is Bridging the Public Divide through University-Community Partnerships. There is a divide between the university and the public. Universities are seen as distant, irrelevant, and generally not a part of the community. We need to demonstrate the connection between higher education and the public at large through, engaged-research, engaged-teaching, and outreach activities. The 2025 Engaged Scholarship Symposium seek to explore the various ways higher education is bridging the divide with the public through the many collaborative projects occurring with faculty, staff, students, and the general public.
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Cooperative Summit II
Friday, February 21, 2025
UofL Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHE) at 1606 Rowan St
The University of Louisville is planning the second Cooperative Summit for Friday, February 21 from 11:00-1:30 at the UofL Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHE) at 1606 Rowan St. in the Portland neighborhood. The Summit will bring together individuals in the Louisville area who are involved in cooperatives as well as those who are interested in the cooperative movement to explore topics such as business planning, funding, cooperative governance, and budgeting among others. Participants will have the opportunity to share about the work of their cooperative and present their questions to others in this time of sharing and learning together.
Registration is closed
Community Engagement Town Hall
Date: November 1, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Venue: Belknap Academic Building 218
Register https://forms.office.com/r/05TWv2Pcm7
Presentations
Title: Project Qoricocha - A community-led reforestation effort in the Andes Mountains of Peru
Presenter Name: DJ Biddle, Director, Center for Geographic Information Sciences
Description: Project Qoricocha is a multidisciplinary partnership between UofL, the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development, and Campesino Forestal to monitor and assess reforestation efforts in the Qqencco community of the Peruvian Andes. Students collaborate with community members to identify project goals, and use cutting edge technologies to gather and interpret data about this unique ecosystem.
Title: CeLOUbrate Print: A Community Printmaking Project
Presenters: Erica Lewis, Graduate Student, Comparative Humanities and Rachel Singel, Professor, Art & Design
Description: Hosted by the Portland Museum, CeLOUbrate Print is a community printmaking project with free, local woodcut workshops and a culminating event
Title: Center for Environmental Policy and Management: Community Engaged Scholarship that informs Participatory Governance and Participatory Research
Presenter: Lauren Heberle, Professor, Sociology
Description: Dr. Lauren C. Heberle, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management will discuss examples of community-engaged projects that highlight participatory governance and research with emphasis on how students have been able to gain experience working with community organizations and government agencies.
Community Engagement Virtual Town Hall
September 24, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Presentation 1: The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) Initiative: Mitigating impacts of climate change and flash flooding in Appalachia
Presenters: Tyler Mahoney – Asst. Professor, Speed School of Engineering, Mary Brydon-Miller - Professor, Educational Ldshp Eval & Organizational Dev, Stephanie Prost – Assoc. Professor, Kent School of Social Work & Family Science
Description: Overview of a new NSF-funded program focused on understanding the causes and effects of flash floods in Appalachian communities. This project will use both engineering and social science methodologies to improve community resilience to flash floods.
Presentation 2: Fitness Promotion: A Collaboration Between the Louisville Metro Police Department and the University of Louisville Exercise Physiology Program
Presenter:Mike Jett, Senior Lecturer, Lab Director, Exercise Physiology Department of Health and Sport Sciences, College of Education & Human Development
Description: A brief historical perspective of the type of relationship between the Louisville Metro Police Department and UofL Exercise Physiology Program, the genesis of the collaboration, current projects, and future plans.
Presentation 3: The Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) Project: Building Community Resilience from the Inside Out.
Presenters: Jennifer Middleton – Assoc. Professor, Kent School of Social Work & Family Science & Co-Pi Louisville Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC), Beatriz Vides – Community Partner, Shantel Crosby – Assoc. Professor, Kent School of Social Work & Family Science
Project Description: The Trauma Resilient Communities (TRC) project aims to build resilience and equity in communities recently affected by trauma. In partnership with the Mayor's Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods, as well as Be the Change, LLC, the TRC Project was first launched in Louisville, Kentucky in 2017, but has subsequently been implemented in impacted communities in New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, California, as well as internationally in Chile, Spain, and Jamaica. The TRC project in Louisville, Kentucky specifically aims to help youth and their families heal and recover from the impact of community violence, racial trauma, and human trafficking by utilizing a resilience framework to disrupt systems and structures of oppression.
2024 UofL Engaged Scholarship Symposium
The UofL Annual Engaged Scholarship Symposium is an annual opportunity to network and share current research and teaching activities involving community partners and service to the community. The ninth annual symposium was held March 22 at the Shelby Campus.
UofL Libraries Professor Fannie Cox with community partner co-presenters from the Friends of the Parkland Library.
The theme for the 2024 Engaged Scholarship Symposium was Community-University Collaboration: Working in Partnership with Our Community with panel presentations, lightning talks and roundtables featuring university-community collaborations involving UofL and Bellarmine University (a full listing of the proceeding is available here). Many community partners attended the symposium as co-presenters with their university collaborators including Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, the Waggener High School Black Student Union, Friends of the Parkland Library, Common Earth Gardens of Catholic Charities, Play Cousins Collective, Collins High School in Shelby County, KY.
The annual Outstanding Community Engagement Awards also took place at the symposium. The Outstanding Community Engagement Award was created in 2009 to recognize faculty, staff, students and community partners involved in outstanding community engagement through volunteerism, outreach, partnerships, curricular engagement or engaged scholarship.
This year's honorees are:
- Student: Angel Okorie
- Staff: James Cripps
- Faculty: Jennifer Middleton
- Community Partner: Redeemer Lutheran Church
2023 Gheens Community Engagement Mini-Grants Awards Ceremony
The Gheens Foundation Mini-Grants Program held an Award Ceremony and Luncheon at the University Club on Monday, October 30th, 2023. Learn more about the awardees here.
2022 Partner Showcase at the 2020 Quad on the Belknap (October 13)
2022 Community Engagement Luncheon at the University Club Ballroom (October 14)
