About the Institute for Community Engagement

The Institute for Community Engagement supports engaged scholarship across KU Medical Center. Engaged scholarship is practical work with community partners beyond our walls that propel communities and academia forward. Engaged scholarship advances KU Medical Center's mission: it is a mode of teaching, a method of research, an approach to clinical care and a form of service.

The Institute directs many initiatives, but it does not manage all KU Medical Center outreach activities. The Institute facilitates further success for outreach initiatives by providing collaborative resources for relationship-building, grant and research assistance, and communications support to KU Medical Center faculty, staff and students.

Our Mission

KU Medical Center works with communities to improve health across the city, state, region and world. We do that by:

• Enhancing educational opportunities to prepare students of all ages for their careers in health and science;
• Strengthening Kansas' health care workforce;
• Conducting research with communities to improve public and community health; and
• Advancing access to health care in medically underserved areas.

Institute Leadership