Community Engagement

Community Engagement


Community Engagement

Program Description
The goal of this project is to develop a set of language science activities that both feature the Spanish language as their subject matter and also can be conducted in Spanish.  These activities will be integrated into the public outreach efforts of the Language Sciences Research Lab embedded within the COSI museum; moreover, this project will create the necessary infrastructure (including student training materials and museum advertising materials) to ensure that the activities continue to be used past the end of the project.

Principal Investigators
Anna Babel
(Spanish & Portuguese), Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Linguistics), Leslie C. Moore (Teaching & Learning), Laura Wagner (Psychology)  

Project Description
This project will enact an intentional exit strategy for the Be the Street project. In doing so, it will transfer the intention of the spirit of the project to an organized, institutionally-supported group of community leaders who have indicated their interest in carrying the work forward in a way that aligns with their existing and ongoing community-based work.

Principal Investigators
Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies) and Moriah Flagler (Theatre)

Project Description
This project aims to continue and sustain a drug-prevention program in two Columbus public schools located in the epicenter of the opiate epidemic in Franklin County: South High School and Marion Franklin High School, both on the Southside.   Funding will support a graduate student who will serve as facilitator as well as the purchase of materials for the in-class activities, so that the program can continue when the service-learning course is offered again in 2020 and 2021.

Principal Investigators
Linda Mizejewski (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Alina Sharafutdinova (Department of Public Safety/ Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services)

Program Description
This project would enable the lower level of the Pizzuti building to become the home to an ongoing, public-facing educational collaboration between the Columbus Museum of Art and OSU. Graduate and undergraduate students taking courses in the History of Art and AAEP would be able to develop a range of skills doing hands-on museum work like budgeting, installation, lighting, catalogue writing and production and registrarial management.  

Principal Investigator(s)
Kris Paulsen (History of Art and the Program in Film Studies) 

Additional Collaborators
Tyler Cann (The Columbus Museum of Art) Lisa Florman (History of Art), Cindy Foley (The Columbus Museum of Art), Karen Hutzel (Arts Administration, Education and Policy), Dana Carlisle Kletchka (Arts Education, Administration, and Policy) and Daniel Marcus (Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio State History of Art)


Guide to Community Engagement Across the University

The following centers and initiatives directly engage a community and/or facilitate the work of Ohio State constituents who wish to do so: List of public or cross-disciplinary connectors.

The following entities have community-oriented documentary and artifactual holdings on campus: List of archives.

The following publishing entities have a community-based focus: Publishing list.

Many community-engaged projects have teaching and student-centered work at their core. This may look like service-learning or field school. It may also take the form of working with youth or training teachers. And sometimes, it looks like an interdisciplinary plan of study or incubator space that makes room for student-led creative experiment.

See list of teaching and student-centered work

The following entities either support community-engaged work that integrates artistic practice in some way or are experts in working with community partners and could (or do) provide critical research or skill sets in doing this work ethically, thoroughly, and humanely.

See list of community-engaged projects and partners with Ohio State