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Center for Community Engagement
University of Mississippi

Community Engaged Fellows Program

The Community Engaged Fellows Program at the University of Mississippi is an interdisciplinary, intercollegiate community of practice designed to further institutionalize and support engaged teaching and scholarship performed in mutually beneficial and equitable collaboration with communities. Participating faculty and staff can opt-in to either a teaching, research and creative achievement, or programmatic track and receive a $1,500 stipend.  

The Community Engaged Fellows Program is intended for: 

  • faculty at any rank who are new to community engaged teaching and scholarship 
  • staff and administrators involved in community engaged programmatic efforts 
  • experienced faculty who would like to deepen their community engaged teaching and scholarship  
  • teaching and learning staff and administrators

Participants are expected to: 

  • Attend a week-long retreat during the May intersession to kick off the program (8 hours each day); 
  • Attend six 3-hour seminars (three during the fall and three during the spring) throughout the program; 
  • Develop a new syllabus or refine an existing course to include community-based learning (teaching track), or produce either a research creative achievement prospectus or incorporate evaluation tools to collect data to support future publication (research and creative achievement track), or develop a new program or refine an existing program to include community engagement (programmatic track);  
  • Writing a short blog post for the university’s community engagement website or an equivalent public-facing communication piece; and  
  • Prepare a presentation to campus on their work and what they gained from the fellowship experience. 

Topics covered in the Community Engaged Fellow Program include, but are not limited to: 

  • Franz’ Engaged Scholarship Model and Ernst Boyer’s Scholarship of Integration 
  • Integration of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement 
  • Designing and Implementing Reflections 
  • Assessment and Evaluation 
  • High Quality Partnerships 
  • Community Engagement as an Interdisciplinary Practice 
  • The Ethics of Community Integrated Research 
  • Effective Methods for Community Based Participatory Research 
  • External Funding Sources 

 The selection criteria include:  

  • Well-conceived and clearly articulated interest in community engagement and expectations of how the program will impact role and work; 
  • A well-defined plan for teaching the course in the next academic year, advancing a research or creative achievement prospectus, or delivering a program; 
  • Description of personal approach to the development of a mutually beneficial collaboration with a community partner, including an outline of possible contributions and benefits; and 
  • Conceptualization of how community engagement will work synergistically with efforts to identify and remove barriers, improve fairness in systems and outcomes, and create a more inclusive understanding of how opportunities for success and achievement can be made available to all people.  

Any faculty and staff interested in participating in the 2023-2024 Community Engaged Fellows Program should complete the submission form by Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 5 pm. A committee will review all submissions, and acceptance notifications will be sent out by mid-March 2023.