What is regional engagement?
Regional Engagement is...
- It is a partnership1 between MSU and an external agency/constituency.
- It addresses a mutual need, how to address the need, and accountability.
- It involves resources from all partners.
- It is tied to specific outcomes.
- It needs to be measurable.
- It should cut across the triad of teaching, research, and service2.
1 Partnership. We are substituting the word "activity" for Partnership" and is defined as an activity that brings to bear the time, energy, and professional talents of an MSU faculty member or staff to serve the Morehead State University 22 county region and beyond. Activities include non-credit teaching, consulting, applied research, external board or committee service2, presentations or publications that result from the engagement activity or activities.
Individual engagement activities are defined as those activities carried out by faculty or staff member that are not sponsored by the university, a college, department, center or institute where the individual faculty or staff member assumes ownership and responsibility for the activity and/or the activity is not dependent on MSU resources.
Institutional engagement activities are defined as those activities that are sponsored or supported by the university, a college, department, center or institute with resources dedicated to the engagement activity (e.mail correspondence w/Jan Hilliard, NKU Associate Provost for Regional Stewardship, Wednesday, October 7, 2009)
2 Service. For the purposes of the Regional Stewardship Program and the CPE engagement key indicators, this does not encompass volunteer activities outside the domain of an individual's professional expertise nor does it include service to academic disciplines or to the university (Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education).
