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Description

UTEP’s Community of Engaged Scholars (CES) is made up of faculty members and community leaders who are actively involved with the scholarship of engagement, which includes teaching, research, and/or service activities. Housed within UTEP’s Center for Community Engagement (CCE), the CES offers a networking base that helps connect faculty and students with community partners to conduct enhanced student learning and research activities aimed at serving the Paso Del Norte region.

Aspirations

CES members aspire to foster stronger, more socially magnanimous relationships among faculty, students, and community partners in a supportive community-enhancing environment.

KEYWORDS

  1. Capacity Building
  2. Community Engaged Scholarship
  3. Community Engagement
  4. Community Partnership
  5. Service Learning

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Heyman, Josiah
Member
Professor
Liberal Arts - Sociology and Anthropology
Society, culture, anthropology, borders, migration, states, power, inequality, working classes, work, consumption, health, U.S.-Mexico border, COVID-19, applied anthropology, values and social science, human rights, immigration, border policy, water, Community-Engaged Scholarship,Community Engagement, community organizations
Featured: Awards

Hiroi, Taeko
Member
Professor
Liberal Arts - Political Science and Public Administration
Political Institutions, Lawmaking, Electoral Systems, Democratization, Political Accountability, Political Instability

Hsu, Pei-Ling
Member
Professor
Education - Teacher Education
Science Discourse, Youth Empowerment, Internship Education, Dialogic Pedagogy, Youth College and Career Readiness
Featured: Awards

Izquierdo, Elena
Member
Professor
Education - Teacher Education
Large scale Dual Language; Leadership in Dual Language Bilingual Education; and BiliteracyEquity; Policy in Dual Language Schooling; Contrastive Analysis and Second Language Acquisition; Bilingual Education; Socio Cultural Competence; Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education;

Jin, Lixin
Member
Professor
Science - Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Environmental Science, agricultural sustainability, Critical Zones, drylands, Soil quality
Featured: Awards


CUE- Community University Engagement
UTEP Resource
Tool
Related Effort: Community of Engaged Scholars
Jennifer Lujan
Resource Link

Visit the CUE to view community partnering agencies and to identify community needs to address. Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to partner with community organizations to help identify needs and the volunteers to help meet them.

Community organizations may individually manage their agency profiles.
CUE system also assists with an internal tool to manage service-learning courses, placements and the tracking of hours.

Engaged Scholarship Consortium Resources
Tool
Resource Link

The Engaged Scholarship Consortium provides a list of toolkits, tools, and resources so that engaged scholars and practitioners may be aware of the numerous resources available to assist them in fostering engaged scholarship and developing the array of skills necessary for working successfully in collaborative, community-engaged contexts.

UTEP Center for Community Engagement (CCE)
UTEP Resource
Service
Jennifer Lujan
Resource Link

The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) serves as UTEP’s resource center for faculty, staff, and students who are interested in engaging in the community through a variety of programs and activities. The CCE connects the resources of the university to help meet community priorities through maintaining healthy and mutually beneficial relationships with community partners.

UTEP Community and Academic Partnerships for Health Science Research (CAPHSR)
Data
Resource Link

To create a sustainable infrastructure for a community and academic health science partnership that fosters collaborative research and education to address health disparities and promote health equity among underserved populations on the US-Mexico border. The primary goals of the Community and Academic Partnerships for Health Science Research (CAPHSR) are:

Create opportunities for networking and developing a common ground for health services and health science research among community agencies and faculty members
Assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of community and academic health sciences research

DIALOG SOURCES

I3 Move Communities provide a way to share expertise, resources, and community information to the general public. There are numerous tools available, both open source and proprietary, for engaging in dialog and sharing information and knowledge within a closed group.

This community engages in dialog as follows:

None specified to date.