Working with researchers and scholars in the IU Indianapolis community is essential to our mission. We’re proud of the work we’ve done together—and are eager to see where our efforts will take us in the future.
We’ve made significant advances—including the development of the Civic-Minded Graduate scale and rubrics.
We’ve also completed longitudinal research on IU Indianapolis students who are involved in service learning. And we’re always working to deepen our campus–community partnerships.
The Office of Community Engagement conducts research and disseminates findings that advance best practices and inform the work of community engagement—at IU Indianapolis and around the world.
We partner with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research through the Community Engaged Research Group to further research across the campus. And we work with faculty to share their community-engagement research efforts.
Learn more about OCE researchCommunity-engaged research takes place in the field. Faculty members and students conduct research that assists them as they partner with communities to meet an identified need and improve quality of life.
While partnerships vary in their depth, researchers often incorporate community organizations into every part of the research process.
Explore community-engaged researchThe scholarship of engagement refers to scholarly activities that study community-engaged projects.
It analyzes how best to conduct this type of research, enhances the community-engaged research framework, and measures how researchers, students, and communities benefit from these projects.
Discover our scholarship initiativesThere are a number of issues that the community, along with a number of institutions concerned with community-engaged research, have identified as research priorities.
Learn more about critical issues in Indiana