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ENGAGE!

I think,

In the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Louisville, we share our expertise with the community through engaged research and scholarship, student internships, community-based learning, public lectures, partnerships, and outreach. We explore diverse ideas, engage local residents, regional and national leaders, and collaborate across programs with a commitment to sharing our knowledge and skills far beyond the classroom and lab.

ENGAGED RESEARCH • Alternative Transportation Study • Alzheimer’s Disease and the Church Study • Annual Housing Report • Anxiety in African-Americans Study (JCPS) • Art as Memory: Suffering, Redemption, Liberation Documentary • Beechwood Pocket Park Concept Plan • Bus Shelter Public Art Project (TARC) • Community Nursing Home Research Project • Destination Louisville Project • Double Vision: A Collaboration of Artists & Poets • Economic Impact Analyses of Bourbon Industry/Auto Industry/ Medicaid • Evaluation of Farmers’ Market Support Program • Human Capital Scorecard • Human Trafficking in Metro Louisville Study • Knowledge in Development (KID) Lab • Local Option Sales Tax Study • Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations • Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture • Louisville Water Company Forecast Project • National Registry of Historic Places Nominations • Northern Ireland Cross-Community Involvement Study • Parkland Public History Project • Project Progress • Psychosocial Interventions for Cancer Patients Project • Racial Profiling and LMPD Study • Research on ADHD & Children’s Emotion Regulation (RACER) • Story Avenue Park Concept Master Plan • Streetscape Projects (Smoketown, Frankfort Ave., Story Ave.) • Urban Forest Data Collection Project

COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING • Internships, Service-Learning Projects, and Study Abroad Experiences • Amazing Global Marketplace • Creative Process Series (Louisville Free Public Library) • Critical Thinking/Mindfulness Classes (Hotel Louisville) • Ethnographic Research Methods Course • Housing Justice Reading Group • Inclusion & Equity Internship Program • Louisville Preservation Fund/Green Lab Project • Work-Study Exchange Programs (France, Russia) • New Albany Curatescape Project • Park Hill Industrial Corridor Demonstration Site • The Real Food Challenge Course • Society of Physics Student’s Program (JCPS) • Sustainability City Series • Teacher Continuing Education Program • “We the People” Civics Program

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISM • A&S All Star Pre-Game Educational Series • A&S Faculty Field Trips • A&S Meet the Professor Lecture Series • African-American Theater Company’s MLK Tribute • Anne & William Axton Reading Series • Anne Braden Exhibitions and Events • Brain Awareness Week • Bullitt Lectures in Astronomy & Math • Grawemeyer Award Lectures (Psychology, World Order) • History of Radio Podcasts • Miracle Monocle • Naamani Memorial Lecture • Open Studio Art Weekend • Pecha Kucha Night Louisville • Strange Fruit on WFPL • Writer’s Block Festival • Yearling’s Club Lecture Series • Zephyr Gallery Exhibition Series

OUTREACH • Adelante Hispanic Achievers • Behavioral Change Team • Calvino Prize • Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities • Civil Rights History School Curriculum • Classical Language Consultation • Cognitive Science Research in K-8 Classrooms • Consultation to Public Defenders Office • Dual Credit (Math, Law, Government) • Eco-Reps Sustainability Education Program • Environmental Finance Center • Fair Housing Market Analysis • JCPS Science Education Improvement Project • Kentucky Cemetery Preservation • Kentucky State Data Center • Language Translation Services • Latin American Film Festival • Louisville Labor Management Agency • Meditation & Mindfulness Workshops • Noble Kelly Psychological Services Center • Nursing Home Depression Intervention Services • Parole Board Training • Peace Day Commemoration • Resilient Families Program • Safe Urban Garden Program • Science & History Fair Judging • Teacher Training on Williams Syndrome • The Urban Studies Institute • Theatre Arts Repertory Company • USA-Ukraine Digital Forensics & Security Training • Whitney M. Young French Connection

PARTNERSHIPS • American Printing House for the Blind Museum • Arts & Cultural Attractions Council • Bernheim Forest • Carnegie Center for Art & History • Center for Neighborhoods • Community Composting Project • Crane House • Eastern Cemetery Rehabilitation • Family Scholar House • Filson Historical Society • Food in Neighborhoods (FIN) • Girl Scouts • Heuser Hearing Institute • Kentucky Center for African American Heritage • Kentucky Historical Society • Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft • Kentucky Opera • Locust Grove • Louisville Arts Council • Louisville Visual Art Association • Muhammad Ali Center • Nazareth Home • Oldham County Math • Portland Museum • Re-surfaced • Riverside, the Farnsley Moreman Landing Project • Science Center • Sister Cities of Louisville • SoFo Day of the Dead celebration • Speed Art Museum

initiativesA&S engagement

Engagement GlossaryENGAGED RESEARCH

Academically-relevant, community-focused research that partners with the community equitably to conduct research, share outcomes and

integrate knowledge gained into action for change or social improvement.

COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNINGEngages students in studying community issues to increase

understanding and application of academic work, and engages faculty, students and community in mutually beneficial collaboration.

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISMPublic lectures, presentations, performances and conferences focusing

on scholarly work and research to wider audiences.

OUTREACHServices provided to and for the benefit of the community by faculty,

staff, and students. Extends the university’s resources and builds capacity to serve the public at large.

PARTNERSHIPSCollaborative interaction with community and related scholarship for the mutually beneficial exchange, exploration, and application of knowledge,

information, and resources.

Therefore I...

The University of Louisville is an equal opportunity institution.

EngagementThe Safe Urban Garden Development Program provides resources and assistance to help minimize the potential health risks associated with urban gardening. The program aims to improve public health within Louisville by providing well-researched and easily-accessible information about urban gardening to increase the number of safe home and community gardens.

Internships and other community-based learning programs provide invaluable opportunities for students to collaborate with professionals and to put the knowledge they gain in the classroom to work in the community.

The Center for Arts & Culture Partnerships places student interns at local arts and cultural organizations that expose them to the challenges of professional practices and prepare them for careers as leaders in cultural and arts institutions in the community like the Muhammad Ali Center, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and Louisville Public Media.

248 Faculty/Staff & 788 Students 25,560 hours of off-campus student engagement

Teaching, researching and serving in 117

Kentucky counties, 3 states and 11

countries.

More than 200 Community

Programs and Projects

More than 400 opportunities in 70 degree programs

A&S

The Parkland Oral History Project combines recent historical scholarship on the fight for racial justice with the lived memory and contemporary struggles of West Louisville, a portion of the city still beset by racial and economic inequities. A public radio series and a multi-media website will present the history of urban policy, race relations, and grassroots struggle alongside the stories of community residents and interracial activists.

engaged scholarship and research

parkland oral history project

community-based learning

internships

The Repertory Company, featuring a troupe of Master of Fine Arts in Performance candidates, performs two plays in rotating repertory for thousands of children, teachers, and other members of the community every year. The performances are offered at a very low cost for any school or non-profit organization in the Louisville metropolitan area. The Company’s tours have visited schools, nursing homes, the Governor’s Mansion, and the state prison.

Performed for more than 100,000

people since 1975

public intellectualism

theatre arts repertory company

outreach

safe urban garden program

two thirds of all projects include diversity and sustainability initiatives.

Collaborative anthropological research with Louisville Metro Government on the project, “Louisville Farmers’ Markets Coordination, Access, and Capacity Building,” to increase access to markets by supporting the use of SNAP benefits and to bolster mutual support among the rapidly growing number of markets in and around Louisville.

outreach

farmers market projectIn 5 years following

removal, tree seedlings increased 14-fold

and saplings tripled

A collaborative biological research project with the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy to understand the impacts of invasive shrub honeysuckle and its removal on plant communities, soil processes and erosion in the woodlands of Cherokee Park. This project aims to provide scientific data as a foundation for preserving and managing the biological heritage in our parks and the ecosystem services they provide to our community.

engaged scholarship and research

invasive honeysuckle study

More than 80 A&S engaged research and

scholarship projects.

More than 20 A&S projects

focusing on food equity and theenvironment

To learn about other A&S engagement programs and projects, visit uofl.me/as-engagement

Engaged research & Scholarship

Digital media academyA two-week, digital storytelling day camp for

rising sixth-grade girls designed to increase problem-solving confidence and technological

competence. The camp is designed to help the girls see themselves as valuable members of the world who can speak to the issues they see in their communities. Led by five doctoral students working with two English faculty members to design,

teach, and operate the daily workshops, publish journal articles about the results,

and learn about teaching meaningfully with technology and as a team.