December 2022 | Issue 34
A Message from the Vice Provost
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As a land-grant university UC Davis has a long history of community engagement and this tradition continues today. The variety, scale, and scope of these activities is truly amazing— ranging from institutional partnerships with cities and place-based neighborhood initiatives focused on community health and wealth to scores of policy-relevant and community-engaged research addressing today’s intractable social, economic, and environmental problems in California and throughout the world.

As these wicked challenges require coordinated action, so do our efforts around university community engagement. I believe it’s time to share our stories and best practices so that we can work towards building a culture of collective impact. This will showcase community engagement’s vital role in confronting today’s most complex problems, thus helping us to achieve the university’s strategic plan goal to “support our community, region, state, nation, and world through mutually beneficial and impactful partnerships.” In the coming year, I look forward to imparting more detail about how we can accomplish this work for the public good, together.

In community,

Michael Rios
Vice Provost, Public Scholarship and Engagement  

The Public Impact Research Initiative (PIRI) was established through Public Scholarship and Engagement to recognize and support research that is cogenerated with community partners, is of mutual benefit, and has a positive public impact. Through this program we provide financial support for new collaborations or sustaining relationships that will support publicly engaged research with non-university partners. Visit the PIRI webpage for more information.

Proposals are due January 20, 2023.
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Spotlight: Your Public Scholarship Community
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We must find ways to restore the social contract between government and its citizens, writes Governor Gavin Newsom. That is what College Corp represents.
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“I subscribe to a ‘mentoring web’ model where students and postdocs and researchers and faculty of all ranks — all of those folks — benefit from having a web of people around them who support them in different ways and who they can call on for different things,” said associate vice provost Tessa Hill.
The Public Scholars for the Future program integrates community-centered theories, methods and techniques into the practice of the next generation of public scholars. This is an interdisciplinary cohort-based program open to Ph.D. students in any UC Davis college or school who plan to register for in-person instruction in the 2023 spring quarter. Due to the strike, the application deadline is now February 15 and the program will run in spring quarter rather than winter quarter 2023.

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In Other News

Events and Opportunities

Deadline: Accepted on a rolling basis

Supporting the Public Good
Philanthropic support plays a vital role in advancing UC Davis public scholarship mission. We invite you to support our vision of discovery, learning and engagement for the public good. 

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