Core Competencies
of the Community Engagement Certificate

Goals of the Program:

Similar to MSU's Certification in College Teaching, this certification is designed to help graduate and professional students:

• Prepare for a career as a community-engaged scholar or practitioner

• Learn about scholarly approaches to community engagement

• Gain skills for collaborating effectively and respectfully with community partners

• Share disciplinary knowledge and experiences with other graduate students, faculty, and staff

• Network with other engaged scholars and practitioners—on campus and nationally

Program Competency Areas:

Foundations

• Histories of Community-Engaged Scholarship

• Disciplinary Variations

• Principles and Practices

Community Partnerships

• Establishing partnerships

• Sustaining partnerships

• Community collaboration techniques

Critical Reflections and Thinking

• Critical, reflective practice

• Engaging with diverse communities

• Ethics and community-engaged scholarship

Community-Engaged Scholarship & Practice

• Community-engaged research

• Community-engaged creative activities

• Community-engaged teaching and learning—service-learning

• Community-engaged teaching and learning—informal learning

• Community-engaged service and practice

Evaluation and Assessment

• Evaluation of community partnerships

• Peer review of community-engaged scholarship

Communication and Scholarly Skills

• Communicating with public/practitioner audiences

• Communicating with academic audiences

Successful Community Engagement Careers

• Documenting your engagement accomplishments

• Career strategies for community-engaged scholars and practitioners

For more information regarding the Graduate Certification in Community Engagement, please refer to their website.