UCO faculty regularly connect their students, classes, research, and service to assist with community needs, living into our campus values as a metropolitan university. The John A Maisch Collective for the Greater Good seeks to honor those engaging with communities through academic connections and to support and highlight the work that is being done, while assisting community partners, faculty, and students in finding one another and working across disciplines when appropriate. Care is taken to collaborate with UCO’s Office of Community Engagement so that community needs may be fully met and to incorporate the Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) so that transformative learning is measured. By connecting faculty across disciplines to address the needs of community partners, the UCO community will be well positioned to address issues with greater complexity. When done well, community work is not siloed work. The Collective will serve as a space - not to direct the activities of community partners and faculty - but to broadly connect and support the work being done. Finally, and most importantly: The structure for The Collective is not yet complete. It is being built with broad faculty input and careful planning for the future.

Graduate Faculty Advisor for the MPH in Community Engagement Program | Public Health Program | Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies | College of Education and Professional Studies

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