Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship

CULTIVATING COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

The Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship integrates community and civic engagement into undergraduate academics with a focus on equity, ethics, and reflection.

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The Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship (MPES) integrates community and civically engaged learning into the academic fabric of Harvard College. Through hands-on learning experiences in and with communities beyond the Harvard context, MPES links academic work to real-world questions, problems, and opportunities, and challenges students to bring together intellectual content with community perspectives and expertise.

To inform and motivate rigorous scholarship and meaningful engagement with community, Engaged Scholarship:

  • Expands academic learning by integrating community context and course content 
  • Promotes the intellectual development of students while responding to community interests, needs and priority action areas 
  • Embraces novel pedagogical approaches to strengthen existing collaborations and partnerships whenever possible, while also cultivating new relationships 
  •  Supports informed and community-centered engagement to facilitate learning and understanding of course concepts 
  • Nurtures reciprocal, respectful, and responsive relationships with communities 
  • Fosters intellectual, social, personal, and institutional transformation through ethical and equitable engagement that brings students and communities together 

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Faculty

The Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship provides consultations, pedagogical guidance, and funding to support relational work in engaged scholarship courses.

Students

Learn to link academics to real-world questions, problems, and opportunities. Bring together scholarship with community perspectives, knowledge, and expertise.

News & Stories

Curious about the people who put theory into practice? Learn more and be inspired by the work of MPES students, faculty, and partners. 

Meet faculty and students who are part of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship.