Engage KSU - Our Community Engagement Initiative

Community Engagement is "the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a content of partnership and reciprocity." -The Carnegie Foundation

The Engage KSU model represents an institutional framework for recognizing, celebrating, and advancing community engagement efforts at KSU. The arrows forming the outside of the model signify the reciprocal relationship between the faculty, staff, administrators, students and alumni of KSU and our local, regional, national, and global communities. These reciprocal relationships encompass and inspire the work of community engagement that we see as central to this initiative, represented by the black circle at the core of the model. Underlying the core of community engagement, depicted by three converging golden circles, are the pillars of higher education: teaching, scholarship, and service. All members of the University – faculty, staff, administrators, students, and alumni – may enact and support community engagement through teaching, scholarship, and service. Extensive institutional structures & resources are critical in support of community engagement, as is a robust array of partnerships & networks.

Community Engagement is the process by which KSU and its broader community connect, collaborate, and exchange resources in the effort to build mutually beneficial, long-term relationships that provide value to each party and help positively enhance awareness, availability, and accessibility for collective growth.