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    Academic Engagement

    Academic Engagement (AE) directs engagement programs that have earned the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement across UNG campuses. AE coordinates and facilitates comprehensive educational programming, supports community-based learning opportunities, and invests in discovery through engagement scholarship.

    Developing a Community

    Developing a community of engaged students and faculty and building relationships with partners can help us to tackle complex challenges and enhance UNG and community resources. We will build a flexible research collaboration network (RCN) across faculty, departments, and colleges.

    This will generate research that builds upon our understanding of productive community engagement efforts and will also:

    • demonstrate UNG’s commitment to the greater community;
    • promote the mission of the university as a student-focused environment that develops students into leaders;
    • advance the university’s objectives as a University System of Georgia leadership institution;
    • progress the objectives of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification; and
    • strengthen UNG's initiatives through greater coordination and impact.

    Community Engagement and Academic Engagement

    As Academic Engagement, our focus is on academic activities: opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to foster learning beyond the classroom (service-learning, community-based practicum and internship opportunities, community-engaged undergraduate research, engagement scholarship, etc.).

    These activities are subsumed under the broader, more extended definition of engagement captured by the Carnegie "community engagement" classification: "the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching defines community engagement as the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial creation and exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.

    The purpose of community engagement is the partnership (of knowledge and resources) between colleges and universities and the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues, and contribute to the public good.”

    Career Path Fair  returns to UNG

    Career Path Fair returns to UNG

    The fifth annual Career Path Fair exposed about 875 seventh-graders to local businesses March 16-17 at UNG's Gainesville Campus.

    High school students  can preview life at UNG

    High school students can preview life at UNG

    UNG will hold free Nighthawk Preview open house events on all five campuses this spring.

    Poultry team places  at national contest

    Poultry team places at national contest

    The UNG poultry team placed eighth at a national poultry contest in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in November.

    Dragon boat team  wins gold on Lanier

    Dragon boat team wins gold on Lanier

    UNG's dragon boat team finished first in the collegiate division of the 200-meter race at the annual Atlanta Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Lake Lanier Olympic Park.

    Le Belle Voci performs at annual state conference

    Le Belle Voci sings at state conference

    Le Belle Voci, the women's ensemble at UNG, performed at the Georgia Choral Directors Association annual conference this fall semester.

    Poultry team places 5th at  national collegiate contest

    Poultry team places at national contest

    The UNG poultry team placed fifth out of 12 teams at the 55th National Collegiate Poultry Judging competition in Arkansas last month.

    Women of UNG award scholarships to students

    Women of UNG award scholarships

    Six UNG students were awarded the Women's Education Scholarship from the Women of UNG, which is a shared interest group of alumni, faculty and staff.

    College of Education earns national seal of approval

    College of Education earns accreditation

    UNG's College of Education earned its national accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. It also earned a Level 4, or exemplary, in the Preparation Program Effectiveness

    Three UNG faculty to deliver commencement speeches

    Faculty to headline fall commencement

    Faculty members Dr. Katherine Adams, Dr. Timothy May, and Dr. Bryson Payne will be the keynote speakers at the fall 2021 commencement ceremonies at UNG.

    President and 26 others inducted into Phi Kappa Phi

    27 inducted into Phi Kappa Phi

    UNG President Bonita Jacobs and 26 other faculty and students were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

    2 murals in progress in UNG's observatory

    2 murals painted inside observatory

    Ten visual arts students are painting murals inside UNG's North Georgia Astronomical Observatory this fall. A Presidential Incentive Award funded the collaborative project between the visual arts and physics

    Global education main focus of week

    Events expand global learning

    UNG's Center for Global Engagement will celebrate International Education Week from Nov. 15-19. The weeklong celebration will expose students to cultural differences and global opportunities.

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