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Fostering relationships in New Zealand
Article by Katie Peikes | April 11, 2025
UD study abroad program on sustainability in agriculture illustrates the value of connection
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For the Record, Friday, April 11, 2025
Article by UDaily staff | April 11, 2025
University of Delaware community reports new honors, publications, presentations, service
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Revitalizing downtown Laurel
Article by Adam Thomas | April 10, 2025
Delaware Sea Grant helps reinvigorate Sussex County town by building affordable housing, downtown shops and nature-based playground
Interdisciplinary Programs
Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement
Partnerships help us provoke new thinking in the classroom, pursue new insights in every field, translate our discoveries to innovation and engage with the community."
The Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement prepares educated, engaged citizens and scholars who can address critical community issues and contribute to the public good. This certificate is particularly beneficial as funding agencies increasingly require researchers to articulate their work’s relevance and wider societal impact.
Recorded on students' transcripts, the certificate creates a scaffold by which scholars integrate their academic study into community engagement experiences through participation in coursework, community-focused graduate research or creative work, and hands-on experience.
Scholars will maintain a portfolio that may contain reflection materials, research documents, a record of experiential hours and a final synthesis that documents their deepened understanding as community-engaged scholars.
The Graduate Community Engagement Summer Scholars program offers highly motivated graduate students the opportunity to immerse themselves in community-based research or creative projects. Scholars spend 10 weeks (20-25 hours/week) during the summer in full-time pursuit of their projects in partnership with a Delaware nonprofit, government, community-based action research or service-based corporate agency and simultaneously pursue academic reflection. At the conclusion of the program, scholars present their projects at a symposium and receive a stipend of $5,000.
This program is open to students from any academic discipline, providing a valuable opportunity to pursue community-engaged scholarship.
Advisement
Students will assess their projects with assistance from CEI. They will submit a final report upon completion of the project.
News
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Revitalizing downtown Laurel
Article by Adam Thomas | April 10, 2025
Delaware Sea Grant helps reinvigorate Sussex County town by building affordable housing, downtown shops and nature-based playground
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Paying it forward
Article by Christy Selagy | April 09, 2025
Blue Hen parents Abrea and Scott Truskin are eager to support the UD community wherever they can
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Fostering relationships in New Zealand
Article by Katie Peikes | April 11, 2025
UD study abroad program on sustainability in agriculture illustrates the value of connection
Connect
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