Community Engagement and Impact, Impact, Impact: a Co-Curricular Model for Co-Creating Change Online
Host: University Outreach and Engagement
Date: March 18, 2026 | 1:00–2:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: Via Zoom
With a 10-year strategic plan entitled Inspiring the Future Makers, Lehigh University is an institution increasingly dedicated to the real-world application of classroom theory. Lehigh's Office of Creative Inquiry offers students from all majors Impact Fellowships, an opportunity to engage, over two semesters, with authentic, multiyear projects alongside faculty mentors and external partners. Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh's inaugural vice provost for creative inquiry, and Bill Whitney, assistant vice provost for experiential learning programs, will present the Impact Fellowship program’s structure, methodology, and examples of how addressing complex global problems can translate into students taking radical ownership of potential solutions, advance knowledge and praxis, and prepare students to lead deeply rewarding lives of impact.
- Khanjan Mehta, Vice Provost for Creative Inquiry, Lehigh University
- Bill Whitney, Assistant Vice Provost for Experiential Learning Programs, Lehigh University
The host of this session is MSU's Office of University Outreach and Engagement who facilitate university-wide efforts to create an ecosystem of engagement by supporting the engaged activities of faculty, staff, and students; fostering public access to university expertise and resources; and by advocating for exemplary engaged scholarship, nationally and internationally. In all of its work, UOE emphasizes university-community partnerships that are collaborative, participatory, empowering, systemic, transformative, sustainable, and anchored in scholarship.
- Date:
- Wednesday, March 18, 2026
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://oqtry8dab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MD-KFLeeKYu1Y6T909_KxsLkOmUfDuYgLetIHyCeF72Of3NL-VAwvDyDe8Igr4BUte2zkopx7rWrd3TltCzloCEmaOzmiwnq18ElWTDXBxGCWvkuNz9I__cnkL4fIvR4m5eGK7VU4NsaytzJZM3p7NNg40cKm9G2i7YhBiLHtazIv_a2MhbByNMG5iKfXNPNQdAE-1aj7RzEgxCudiFjUA==&c=7S_d0ysTpaW3a9-oCvYBOo0cufCxzh8SjLddEUVdtNcgfYnjPVVzXw==&ch=4ncQdF_5WhJnrSau52ObmaifrLyacy9k53z0gp0r4ZMgJ1SPRjUJOQ==__;!!HXCxUKc!3Avr5zvR4NJ37PBM3W7wyHFqGqjAnHeXmpAchfbWmyOUzahfjAbFbe30SVfKCHgLoNeUvT-eM66gvdErQFxI$
- Audience:
- Educator Network Future Faculty In-Class Educators Online Educators
- Categories:
- Community-Engaged Learning Guest Speakers Online Session