GOALS | THREE

Global Arts + Humanities will strengthen the university’s capacity for transformative, communityengaged partnerships through arts and humanities methods, orientations and interventions

Community-engaged work is often an ill fit with university administrative structures, the rhythms of an academic calendar and the traditional definitions of faculty research, productivity and efficacy. Global Arts + Humanities puts forth a vision for public-facing, community-engaged partnerships that are meaningful, sustainable and advance diversity, inclusion and equity.

3:1 | Community-Engagement Grants

Community-engagement grants support new projects that build upon extant Ohio State community-focused engagements. These projects include undergraduate student service-learning or other high-impact- practice curricular opportunities; graduate student pedagogy; and experiential learning.

3:2 | Best Practices for Community-Engagement

Global Arts + Humanities is committed to community-engaged partnerships sustained by an adherence to best practices that respect community partners, prioritize their needs, resist exploitation and foster reciprocity — this includes exiting community-engaged partnerships responsibly and ethically. To foster best practices, we are developing tools for assessing the impact of communityengaged partnerships and advancing the scholarship of engagement by mentoring emerging researchers and practitioners through workshops as their community-based pedagogy and research develop.

3:3 | Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute The Difficult Subjects: K-12 Teaching Institute brings together elementary, middle- and high-school teachers from Central Ohio for a year-long exploration of multidisciplinary approaches to teaching a difficult subject in America’s past and present. “Difficult subjects” are those that center on the experiences of historically-marginalized groups in America — experiences that have had a profound effect on the lives of marginalized people, not only over the course of individual lifetimes, but across multiple generations. Ohio State faculty-led content workshops complement and supplement State of Ohio standards. The topic for the inaugural 2020-21 institute is American slavery.