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Add your outreach content to the UA for You Portal!

Upcoming Training Dates: Fall Semester 2010 TBA

Please RSVP to TBA with the time and date you will attend, your UA Net ID, and please indicate your program affiliation (if not noted in your email signature).

Schedule A Time at Your Convenience
Contact TBA to request a different training date or to find out about additional scheduled trainings. Nisha may be able to come to your office to show you how to add outreach content.

To Schedule Special Trainings, Ask Questions etc.: Please Contact Nisha Rao at nishar@email.arizona.edu if you would like to set up a special training for yourself or your staff or have any questions or comments.

Location: Unless otherwise noted, all trainings take place at McClelland Park, Rm 102 (computer lab) on the corner of 4th Street and Park St (IMPORTANT: This building is also known as Family and Consumer Sciences - says this on 4th St. side. PLEASE take care to not confuse this building with McClelland Hall which is located elsewhere). We will be at the table in the back of the room, the white board when you enter room 102 will indicate that there is a training.

Thank You - we look forward to working with you.

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UA Collaborative for Community Engagement and Outreach Social Network

If you are affiliated with the UA and do outreach, please contact us and we can invite you to join the UA Collaborative for Community Engagement and Outreach. Please let us know your program and/or department affiliation. This collaborative social network is a "behind the scenes" networking tool for UA affiliated faculty and personnel involved in outreach.

The Gift Center

The Grant Information, Facilitation and Training (GIFT) Center is a service of the UA Foundation that offers UA faculty, staff and development personnel support with their non-governmental charitable grantseeking activities. View the Gift Center's page on the Outreach & Extension Portal

Resources from UA Cooperative Extension

Outreach Consultants

Contact us if you would like to be listed below as an outreach consultant.

Melody Buckner: Instructional Design Specialist in the Outreach College, under Vice Provost for Outreach

Melody's mission is to help faculty create online courses that expand the reach of The University of Arizona experience. She guides faculty through a systematic creative process for developing an optimum instructional environment to engage learners using a learning management system and educational technologies. This service is offered specifically to faculty who are interested in developing fully online courses or programs that reach out to the non-traditional students. Contact Melody at mbuckner@arizona.edu

Marti Lindsey: Outreach Director of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC)

Marti has wealth of expertise across academic disciplines that can help you figure out how to translate your field of study to the general public, the k12 community or other target audience. View Marti's bio here (she has a background in both science and social science).

Social Science and Science Faculty can talk to Marti about:

  • Models of university to community interaction, participation, and collaboration
  • Disseminating your expertise, research and interests within the broader community
  • Moving beyond standard approaches to outreach (e.g. curriculum and “one-shot: workshops)

Marti organizes the weekly Standing Meeting: Best Practices - Outreach Design & Evaluation for the UA Collaborative for Community Engagement and Outreach. Contact Marti at mlindsey@email.arizona.edu

Resources from Other Universities

Michigan State

The University-Community Partnerships at Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement published a series of 34 Best Practice Briefs between 1998 and 2005. The briefs summarize research-based information about human service concepts, processes, models, and tools for funders, policy makers, and service organizations. The full series is archived on their website. You can download the PDF for Brief 32 and 33 below. Both briefs, Copyright © 2005 by Board of Trustees of Michigan State University.

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