About the Office of Outreach and Engagement
Mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations are central to both the definition of outreach and engagement and how the Office of Outreach and Engagement does its work. We exist to work in collaboration with faculty, staff, students, and units to enrich Ohio State’s partnerships with the community and to embed outreach and engagement into colleges and departments. We are pleased to work with the following affiliated program:
- Service-Learning Initiative supports the integration of outreach and engagement into teaching.
Outreach & Engagement and Affiliated Programs
Functions of Outreach & Engagement and Affilated Programs
- Seeding outreach and engagement through grants, consulting with faculty
- Providing a point of contact for faculty, staff, students, and community
- Offering outreach-related professional development through seminars, Patterson lecture, Roads Scholars tour
- Giving administrative leadership with reports and policy development
- Having outreach-related national involvement through the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the Committee on Insitutional Cooperation committee on engagement, and other national affiliations
- Providing communications/cataloguing through reports, database, news releases, web presence
Staff
Valerie Lee, Vice President, lee.89@osu.edu, (614) 247-7795
Stephen Myers, Associate Provost, myers.603@osu.edu, (614) 688-1301
Lauren Seligman, Director of Advancement, seligman.11@osu.edu, (614) 247-6602
Ben Lewis, Director of Communications and Special Projects, lewis.485@osu.edu, (614) 247-7100
Tei Street, Director of Outreach and Engagement Educational Programs, street.2@osu.edu, (614) 247-7795
Eric Troy, Director of Community and Cultural Transformation, troy.11@osu.edu, (614) 688-1069
Patricia Cunningham, Director of Student Engagement, cunningham.212@osu.edu, (614) 733-9118
Mark McCann, Program Director, mccann.249@osu.edu, (614) 247-1939
Kim Kovarik, Special Assistant, kovarik.9@osu.edu, (614) 292-8441
Betty Ellis, Budget Manager, ellis.199@osu.edu, (614) 247-8007
Janis Browning, Program Coordinator, browning.5@osu.edu, (614) 688-2931
Shawna Hansen, Community and Public Relations Coordinator, hansen.339@osu.edu, (614) 688-1076
Vicki Reed, Office Assistant, reed.749@osu.edu, (614) 247-7795
