Academic Engagement (AE) leads UNG's role to direct engagement programs that have earned the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement across UNG campuses. AE coordinates and facilitates comprehensive educational programming, community-based learning opportunities, and invests in discovery through engagement scholarship.
Developing a community of engaged students, faculty and building relationships with partners can help solve complex challenges to 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 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.
