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.
- Course Spotlight: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Professor Heidi Vollmer-Snarr’s students in CHEM 100R: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology headed to Washington D.C. to take science advocacy from theory to practice. Learn more about this cohort’s research and their experience with engaged scholarship!…Continue Reading Course Spotlight: Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Apply to the Engaged Scholarship Student Advisory Committee AY24-25!
Apply to the Engaged Scholarship Program’s Student Advisory Committee (SAC)! Bring people together to ask big questions, create the intellectual community that drew you to Harvard, and gain practical experience around developing workshops and curriculum! …Continue Reading Apply to the Engaged Scholarship Student Advisory Committee AY24-25! - Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It.
How can students talk about climate change in a way that sparks action, innovation, and change? This spring, a handful of students in GOV 1318, a new course titled “The Great Food Transformation,” took a fresh approach…Continue Reading Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It.