Public Scholarship Center
View Programmatic Structure (pdf)The Public Scholarship Center leverages the ability of the faculty and distinguished visitors to conduct rigorous empirical research and attempt to find synergies to build upon the research activities of existing university centers. Collaborating with key figures and organizations of client communities to help define and prioritize research foci, activities and projects may include but are not limited to the following:
- Conduct, publish and disseminate results of sponsored research on regional concerns
- Conduct polling, open-ended interviewing, mass media educational communication, teleconferencing, online and print, and training, conferences and other media.
- Develop new models, provide expertise, and create linkages to support the public impact activities of CCERP
- Help raise the level of public awareness about and responsiveness to the persistent and widening economic and social disparities across class, ethnic and racial lines
- The political and social consequences of declining community engagement and political participation
- The study of the social and economic consequences of immigration
- Faculty and visitor colloquia
- Funding Opportunities-individual faculty members, visitors, students and student organizations will have access to a variety of CCERP grants to subsidize the above activities
