The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, is composed of higher education member institutions, a mix of state-public and private institutions. Our goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity. The annual conference was held in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Aliya Durham co-presented with Dr. Nancy Gauvin, Dr. Keith Caldwell, and Ms. Trupti Sarode at the 2024 Engagement Scholarship Consortium conference in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, October 10. The panel was titled, “All-In: Creating an Ethos of Community Engagement Across an Institution” and explored the synergy between academic departments and institutional efforts toward meaningful change in communities. Their panel drew on lessons from experiential learning, place-based initiatives, and examples of community engaged praxis in teaching and research. Dr. Durham emphasized social work’s long-standing practice of engagement in the region with an emphasis on faculty research, practicum partnerships, and the Browne Leadership and Community and Racial Equity Leadership (CREL) fellowships.