Center for Community Engagement
Center for Community Engagement
Conville Endowment for Community Engaged Teaching and Research
The Conville Endowment for Community Engaged Teaching and Research was established
to honor Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Conville and to support and reward excellence in
community-engaged teaching and research. Multiple funding awards are given each year
to faculty.
Interdisciplinary Investigations Research Series
The II Research Series provides funding on a two-year cycle for faculty and community
members to work collaboratively to produce research or creative work that addresses
community challenges or effects social change. Applications due each May. Read about the 2022-24 II Research Series.
Service-Learning Faculty Fellows
CCE accepts 5-6 faculty each year to participate in the Service-Learning Faculty Fellows
program, in which faculty meet weekly during the spring semester to learn about service-learning
pedagogy and redesign an academic course to include a service-learning component.
Faculty Fellows receive $2400 to teach the initial service-learning course, which
can either be paid as direct compensation to the faculty member (minus fringe benefits
and taxes) or paid to the faculty member’s school (full amount).
Eagle SPUR Community Engaged Research Funding (for undergraduate research)
Eagle SPUR provides funding for undergraduates to conduct community-engaged research
and creative projects in which university and community members work collaboratively
to address critical societal issues. Community-engaged projects directly incorporate
community partners' expertise and lived experience into a research or creative project.
Best Community Engaged Research or Creative Activity at UGS (for undergraduates)
One undergraduate student will receive recognition and a $300 prize for presenting
the best community-engaged research or creative activity at the annual Undergraduate
Research Symposium presented by the Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research.