Action Item (as stated with DEI strategic plan launch in 2016)
The Center for Educational Outreach (CEO) continues to serve as the campuswide hub for K-12 outreach. CEO leads a coordinated university-level strategy for educational outreach and engagement and significantly increases both the capacity and effectiveness of U-M faculty, campus outreach professionals and student groups by providing consulting, training and programs to equip them to work with K-12 communities including schools, youth and college-access organizations.
DEI 1.0 Evaluation Update
Over the years of DEI 1.0, CEO created and enhanced a number of programs and initiatives.
Communities of Practice now include:
- University Outreach Council with 375 members from 150+ campus units
- Faculty Forums on Outreach and Engagement, with collaborations between U-M and community partners that to date have sponsored events for 750+ participants
- Michigan Pre-College and Youth Outreach Conference, held in the past 3 years, engaged 720+ outreach professionals from 32+ institutions
Infrastructure and Tools to support outreach:
- Youth Hub highlights 75+ pre-college programs, 35 resources and events, and has 6,250+ user accounts with website visits by 13,000+ prospective students
- The CEO Resource Library, hosted on the CEO website, which highlights and makes accessible 35+ video, PDF, and toolkit resources for any K-12 or higher education users that focus on programming, interacting with students virtually, training young professionals in the outreach space, and much more
- A series of innovation programs launched in Year Five that includes: College Made (engaging 125 students from 4 high schools); ECoach (serving 2,000+ high school students in 14 high schools); and virtual Wolverine Express for MCAC schools; in the past year, continued developing Google sites with online resources for statewide use
Consulting/Capacity Building:
- Consulted with 17 schools/colleges and 35 central units on 50+ initiatives through 325+ consultations for faculty, staff and students
Supported 29 student organizations through Project Inspire - Provided faculty on Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses with fellowships and grants to support their outreach projects
- Developed long-term partnership with Children on Campus and ITS for minors to onboard new virtual and hybrid versions of K-12 campus programming
Direct Service:
- Through Wolverine Express, connected over 48 U-M units and departments to 12 high schools, 120 classrooms and 2500+ students
- Maintained a CEO campus visitation program that enabled 70+ in-person visits and 60+ virtual visits for 4750+ students
- Partnered with Michigan College Advising Corps (MCAC) to place recent U-M graduates in 14 underserved high schools across the state as full-time college advisors
- Leveraged the GEAR UP program to expand CEO’s college access programming to a cohort of 755+ 8th grade students through their first year of college
Responsibility: Center for Educational Outreach