All -
Thanks for a great meeting last week. As we all said, this group is one of the best! It's amazing minds being totally open to sharing in a collegial environment and safe space. It doesn’t get any better!
Here are some follow-up items:
*
We will cancel our January Zoom as many will not be back.
*
We decided this meeting was important enough to do it F2F twice a year. Here’s the link with potential June dates, we’re looking at a Thursday/Friday: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0TFHkyBd3…
During our February meeting, we will discuss agenda items for the coming months:
*
Garnering Support for Engagement - messages for internal and external stakeholders
*
Reporting Impact and ROI
*
Promotion and Tenure
*
Funding for Engagement
*
Harnessing AI for Engagement
*
Who should be on our listserv
*
We can keep adding...
We are also reaching out to the schools who haven’t been active to invite them to our team.
If you want to email the list, use this address: big10engagementreps(a)lists.unl.edu
Let me know what we’re missing! Thanks for the partnership and for all you do around engagement. Enjoy the break!
Kathleen
[ps://ucomm.unl.edu/images/email-signature/4h.gif]
Kathleen Lodl
Associate Dean/4-H Program Administrator
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension
211 Ag Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0703
402.472.2966 • klodl1(a)unl.edu<mailto:klodl1@unl.edu>
http://www.extension.unl.edu <http://www.extension.unl.edu/ >
[ebook icon]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.facebook.com/UNLExtension211__;!!Pv… > [tter icon] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/unlextension__;!!PvXuogZ4sR… > [terest - Keep Ohio Beautiful] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pinterest.com/source/extension.unl.… >
Regarding the discussion about General Counsel-approved MOUs for
community-engaged learning partnerships, my center director sent this:
CCEL replaced our MOU process that had gone through OGC and Office of Risk
Management approvals (sample attached) with what we refer to as our Community
Partner Compliance Process <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/HiCeMZwHp8NLBo2J6__;!!PvXuogZ… > (also
approved by OGC and OET) and for purposes of students being approved by
their faculty or CESP for other opportunities they want to use for their
programs, we created this version of it, which we refer to as the
Compliance Check for One-Off <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/jYzrHLwdVWQ1V73dA__;!!PvXuogZ… >situations.
Both of those forms have been updated with the new language about not being
able to work with organizations that limit participation based on a
protected category and are not open to anyone to participate per my meeting
with Tina Marisam right before Thanksgiving.
Students also have to complete a Community-Engaged Learning Student
Participation Agreement form that is built into our existing portal or via a
form <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/WwEZqnMmsJT9sC2Z8__;!!PvXuogZ… >that some faculty who don't use
the portal for referrals use instead. CESP Students complete a very similar
form also embedded in the portal. I worked with OGC to create those as
well.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM Laurie Van Egeren <lve(a)umn.edu> wrote:
> Can you please send me the template for the CEL partner MOU? it's CGA
> approved, right?
>
> --
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>
> Laurie A. Van Egeren, Ph.D.
>
> *Vice Provost for Public Engagement*
>
> University of Minnesota
>
>
>
> *President, Engagement Scholarship Consortium*
>
> *Co-PI, Center for Advancing Research Impact for Society (ARIS)*
>
>
>
> she/her/hers
> lve(a)umn.edu
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://engagement.umn.edu/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-t…
>
--
Laurel E. Hirt, M.A.
Pronouns: She, her, hers (why pronouns? <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mypronouns.org/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-t… >)
Director, Center for Community-Engaged Learning
240 Appleby Hall
128 Pleasant Street
SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
ccel.umn.edu
612-625-3344 (direct)
612-626-2044 (front desk)
612-802-7619 (text/cell)
Facebook: @UMNCCEL <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.facebook.com/UMNCCEL/*__;Iw!!PvXuog… >
Instagram: @UMNCCEL
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.instagram.com/ccelumn/?hl=en__;!!Pv… >
YouTube: @UMNCCEL <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwF9ZTzKY9InE-… >
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.myccel.com/__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!DQ6… >
*The University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus is located on Dakota treaty
lands included in the 1805, 1837, and 1851 broken treaties
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://treatiesmatter.org/treaties__;!!PvXuogZ4… >. The lands still rightfully belong to
the Dakota peoples. *
StrengthsQuest Top 5 Talent Themes:
Relator~Empathy~Belief~Individualization~Connectedness
*"Real Change, Enduring Change, Happens One Step at a Time." *
*Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933-2020*
*“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates
walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” *
*Maya Angelou (1928-2014) *
*"You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it,
unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing
it." *
Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015)
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.facebook.com/**A21/UMNCSLC__;IyU!!Pv… >