Engaged Department Grant

School of Music

What is Public Engagement?

The intentional and strategic deployment of intellectual human capital to work in partnership with public and private sectors to:– Enrich scholarship, research and creative

activity– Enhance curriculum, teaching and learning– Prepare educated, engaged citizens.

What does it mean to be “engaged?”

• In an Engaged SOM…

– SOM is respected and valued by University and Community.

– Faculty members are respected and valued.

– The Voice of community members are respected and valued.

– School of Music Leaders value engagement and offer support.

– Engagement activity is rewarded.

Engaged Department Grant

• Purpose: to advance the institutionalization of public engagement at the University of Minnesota by furthering the integration of public engagement into the programmatic features of the department.

An engaged department is one that:

• Utilizes public engagement as a strategy to achieve key academic goals for students and faculty;

• Encourages and supports high quality community-based research and engaged scholarship among faculty and/or students;

• Incorporates public engagement into academic coursework to enhance student learning and development;

• Supports collaborative research and teaching activities between members of the department and members of the community.

The Team

• Keitha Hamann, Team Leader

• Laura Krider• Scott Lipscomb• Jerry Luckhardt• David Myers• Kathy Romey• Wendy Zaro-Mullins• Scott Currie • Anna Schultz

• Our Charge: participation and leadership in three phases of the grant program– Planning and

Development of a strategic action plan

– Implementation of the action steps

– Assessment and Reporting

Goal 1

• Build up from the division level a comprehensive definition of community engagement and identify what is already happening.

Goal 2

• Examine current curriculum for opportunities to engage, and identify and create 3-5 model programs or ways to add value to existing programs through community engagement.

Successes

• The process we have developed for reviewing grant applications fosters a spirit of collaborative exploration.

• We have received new funding to continue this work– Fall Collage Concert: $3,200– Vocal Music Civic Engagement Fund: $50,000

• To date we have funded 17 proposals that total $8,250

• 7 of these grants were given to graduate students

Graduate Students successes

• Current Trends in Music Education Class• Choral Conducting Class

Goal 3

• Through examination of exemplary models, presentations by guest speakers, and conversations with potential community partners, create opportunities for faculty, students and community partners to explore, develop, and implement public engagement initiatives.

Successes

• Professional Development Guests– Marin Alsop – October 2009– Sean Gregory – April 2010

• Future Guests– Paul Phoenix – October 2010– Rineke Smilde – April 2011– Marin Alsop returns – April 2011

Goal 4

• Identify, develop and maintain partnerships with community members, groups and individuals – professionals in the field, alumni, schools, community organizations, arts organization, corporations, and others interested in building engaged relationships

Goal 5

• Create and maintain SOM public engagement infrastructure, i.e., forms, assessments, invitations, web presence, communication systems, committees, etc. Suggest changes in FAR and propose faculty incentives and rewards that facilitate public engagement in the SOM

To the future

• Life of the EDLT extended• Expanding web presence• Continuation of mini-grant program• Ongoing professional development• Developing relationships with community

partners

Questions?