Meet the Crew
Get to know the faculty, staff and research assistants who work incredibly hard on the Center's projects!
The Center for Public Scholarship & Social Change brings together teams of faculty, students, and members of the community to engage collaboratively in research for public purposes. Aiming to leverage the ability for shared research on public issues, the Center for Public Scholarship lends assistance and expertise in identifying research issues, developing research designs, collecting data, writing up results, disseminating results, and working with policymakers and practitioners to resolve issues affecting local, regional, and global communities.
Goals for the Center include the following:
Get to know the faculty, staff and research assistants who work incredibly hard on the Center's projects!
Please feel free to look through all the research reports the Center has done over the years!
The Community Engagement Grant Program, housed within the Center for Public Scholarship & Social Change, is an internal grant program for faculty that aims to support costs (e.g., supplies, equipment, student wages) associated with one of the following projects: Community-Based Research and Community Impact Projects.
The submission deadline is Monday, April 4th, 2022.
For the application and more information about the grant, please click here.
Congratulations Dr. Jennifer Frank, Jenna Graeff, and Dawn Watson on being published in the Engage for Change Journal! To read their paper, "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Homelessness as Environmental Injustice", click here.
Dr. Jennifer Frank and her team have been featured on the LNP website! To learn more about this amazing project, click here to read the full article.
Congratulations Mary Brogna, Destiny Lebron, and David Lenig on graduating! We wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors! We will be cheering you on as you start your next stage of life. On behalf of the Center, thank you for all your hard work, engagement, and dedication in helping the local community.
Carrie Smith, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator
Center for Public Scholarship and Social Change
Phone: 717-871-7478
Office: McComsey Hall 231
Lori Leaman
Program Administrator
Center for Public Scholarship and Social Change
Phone: 717- 871-7622
Office: Second Floor, Huntingdon House
Helen Schirf
Graduate Assistant
Center for Public Scholarship and Social Change
Email: hmschirf@millersville.edu
Office: Second Floor, Huntingdon House