1. Search the database
2. Add/update your outreach work
3. Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What should I enter as outreach and engagement?

A: You should enter your teaching, research, and service work that is conducted in partnership with the nonacademic community. It may be a community based program, collaborative research project, service-learning, distance learning, continuing education or extension course/program or other type of project that engages the university with the community “beyond the campus walls.” Outreach and engagement is defined as meaningful and mutually beneficial collaborations with partners in education, business and public and social service. It is—

• That aspect of teaching that enables learning beyond the campus walls
• That aspect of research that makes what we discover useful beyond the academic community
• That aspect of service that directly benefits the public

Q. What happens to the information I enter?

A. The information will be included in your OSU:Pro profile. The Outreach and Engagement section of all OSU:Pro profiles makes up the Outreach and Engagement/P-12 Database. The database includes over 400 outreach and engagement projects that represent the broad range of Ohio State’s partnerships and collaborations. The database projects demonstrate the ways in which faculty, staff, and students are partnering with the communities the university serves in Ohio, the United States, and around the world. Members of the university community and the general public can access this database to learn more about your work, to find potential collaborators, or to participate in your outreach and engagement program.

Q. Who should enter outreach and engagement projects into the database?

A. If you are leading an outreach and engagement project, please share those projects. If you are the outreach and engagement contact or administrator for your unit, please work with the colleagues in your unit to make sure all the outreach and engagement initiatives in your unit are represented.

Q. We have a team working on this project. Who should enter the project in the database?

A. Any member of the team can enter the project in their personal profile in OSU:pro. As you enter the information, you will be asked to list Inside Partners involved with the project. Once you include an Ohio State individual, this project will then also be recorded in their individual profile (with you listed as a partner). Your Ohio State partners will be able to edit the project from their individual prolife.

Q. What if I need to make changes to my project?

A. On the database gateway page (http://pro.osu.edu/oe/), click on Add or Edit Project to log in with your OSU username and password in order to access and edit the Outreach and Engagement section of your OSU:pro profile.

Q. What information do I need before I enter a project?

A. The following elements are required to enter an Outreach & Engagement project:

• Project Title
• Project Description. Include all information that will help others understand your project. Consider including WHAT the project is, WHAT the objectives and/or expected impacts are, WHO it is aimed at, WHERE it is held, WHY it exists, and HOW to get involved. Spell out acronyms. Be sure to include key words that will help people find your project. You may want to include a keywords list at the end of your description.
• How will you measure success in this project (Project Outcomes and Impact)? What are the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of the project? This may include information such as number of people affected; changes in knowledge, attitudes, or skills of participants (community and Ohio State participants); documented financial or social impact; publications and grants resulting from this project. If results are not currently available, list the types of data that will be gathered to document outcomes and impact.
• Times Offered (check all that apply): Annual, Fall Quarter, Ongoing, Spring Quarter, Summer, Upon Request, Winter Quarter
• Type of Engagement (check all that apply)
  Activity/Event (Athletic Event, Camp, Certificate, Class, Clinical Experience, Community Programs, Conference, Continuing Education, Degree Program, Field Trip, Lecture, Performance, Presentation, Professional Development, Seminar, Speaker, Special Event, Tour, Visit, Work Study Program, Workshop)
  Resources (Curriculum Guides, Distance Learning, Distributed Education, Grant, Information, Library Services, Referral Program, Resource Materials, Support Materials)
  Support (Community Service, Consulting, Direct Service, Fellowship, Internship, Mentoring, Partnership, Patient Care, Tutoring, Volunteerism)
• Subject(s) (check all that apply)
  Economic Development
  Health & Safety (Geriatric Health, Health Care Services, Health Safety, Multicultural/Health/Education, Patient Education, Research, Safety, Underserved Populations)
  P-12 (preschool-12th grade Agriculture, College Bound Programs, Community Development, Environment, Family Relations, Fine and Performing Arts, Foreign Languages, Government/Public Policy, International, Language Arts, Library Media, Mathematics, P-12, Physical Education/Health, Science, Social Sciences/Social Studies, Sports, Technology)

Optional Elements

• Project Website
• Where This Program Takes Place (county/counties, states other than Ohio, countries other than United States, Mt. Vernon area, University District, downtown Columbus)
• Educational Level (youth program, preschool-12th grade, undergraduate, graduate, professional development)
• Outside Partners (external to Ohio State)
• Inside Partners (other Ohio State personnel)
• Grants associated with the project
• Publications associated with the project

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