CU | 208
DC | HNS 147 (VTC launch site)
GC | Library 134
OC | 522

An identical session is being held at 2:00pm in the following rooms. For more information click here.

CU | 262
DC | BH 315
GC | Library 134 (VTC launch site)
OC | 522

Guest Lecturer: Hiram Fitzgerald, Ph.D.

Community Engagement Scholarship focuses on the integration of higher education’s knowledge base in research and creative activities, with the public’s knowledge base anchored in the realities of everyday life. The integration co-joins higher education’s knowledge discovery and application missions with community needs for sustainable and transformative change in nearly every facet of contemporary life. Dr. Fitzgerald will focus on issues related to institutional alignment with respect to community engagement scholarship, and examine approaches to building and sustaining community partnerships in order to advance knowledge and solve community problems through approaches that emphasize the co-creation of knowledge and co-production of sustainable change. Dr. Fitzgerald will also illustrate how community engagement scholarship enhances higher education’s efforts to educate students to participate in and lead the development of 21st century innovations that will enhance competitiveness, locally and globally.

Hiram E Fitzgerald is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. He is president of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium and is a member of the Council on Engagement and Outreach of the Association for Public and Land Grant Universities. In 2014 he was elected to the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship.

In his diverse research efforts, Fitzgerald participates in a variety of interdisciplinary research teams focusing on evaluation of community-based early preventive-intervention programs in Michigan. Fitzgerald’s major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, 0-5 age boys and risk, implementation of systemic community models of organizational process and change, the etiology of alcoholism, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement. He has published over 500 journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and peer-reviewed abstracts. He is senior editor of the two volume Handbook of Community Engagement, and the recently published, Going Public: Civic and Community Engagement (MSU Press).

Fitzgerald has received numerous awards, including the ZERO TO THREE Dolley Madison Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to the Development and Well Being of Very Young Children, the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Selma Fraiberg Award, and the designation of Honorary President from the World Association for Infant Mental Health. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 7, 34, 37) and the Association of Psychological Science.

An identical session will be held at 2:00 pm on the same day, broadcast from Gainesville to all four campuses.