Project Guidelines
What are Outreach and Engagement Projects?
TU Outreach and Engagement Projects are focused on either teaching and learning, applied research, and/or outreach and professional service; and are reciprocal and mutually beneficial to both members of the TU community and our community/business partners. These projects bring TU and communities together and are not a collage of separate activities, but a particular approach to campus-community collaboration. There is mutual planning, implementation, and assessment among outreach and engagement partners.
Examples include:
- Service Learning: Accounting 101 course that teaches the principles of financial accounting and engages students in preparing financial statements for a local nonprofit agency as part of a service learning project.
- Community-based applied research: A study of the impact of regional greenhouse gas initiatives on a local community
- Community Outreach initiatives: A Gear-Up grant to support technology programming at high schools in Baltimore City
- Community Service Projects: Tigerthon, a student-led 12 hour dance marathon which raises money for Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital
What are not Outreach and Engagement projects?
- A good or service that primarily benefits a faculty or staff member
- Projects by another entity where students and faculty sporadically participate
- A student internship that lacks outreach and engagement elements
- Faculty or staff research that lacks outreach and engagement elements
Examples include:
- A consulting practice
- A business that occasionally has a Towson University intern
- An internship in an organization that does not directly impact the community
- A research paper that focuses on topics other than outreach and engagement
Phone: 877-TU-Link-4U or 410-704-2678
Fax: 410-704-2152
E-mail: TUintheCommunity@towson.edu
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