UK Engage fosters, facilitates and supports collaborative work to solve key questions and meet pressing needs facing Kentucky through broad partnerships across the university, extension system and the communities we serve.
This work is made possible through:
- Collaborative, translational research that addresses relevant and timely questions;
- Applied scholarship, connecting knowledge and expertise from the university to the community;
- Meaningful student learning and engagement; and
- Co-creation that forges community-focused solution.
UK Engage is guided by principles that emphasize:
- Leveraging the knowledge, talent, research, resources and reach of the university at-large to help populations within the Commonwealth thrive;
- A broad focus that is both university-wide and state-wide;
- Mutually beneficial partnerships that support problem identification and solution creation;
- Addressing important societal and community issues;
- Taking transdisciplinary approaches in creative solution finding;
- Diversity, equity and inclusion;
- Extension knowledge and expertise to co-create beneficial engagement programs and enhance extension programming and impact at community level; and
- Overall alignment with university goals, student learning, research priorities and engagement objectives.
This report outlines the following strategic priorities:
- Strategy 1: Improving Organization and Engagement Support
- Strategy 2: Building a Culture of Engagement
- Strategy 3: Investing In and Incentivizing Engagement
- Strategy 4: Setting Priorities for Engagement
- Strategy 5: Supporting Faculty, Staff and Student Engagement