Engagement Scholarship Consortium Opportunities
Awards
2026 ESC Awards of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium supports and encourages excellence in community-engaged scholarship through its annual Awards Program. The program recognizes higher education institutions and their exemplary contributions to scholarship and the practice of engaged scholarship.
The 2026 ESC Awards of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship will recognize exemplary institutional programs in the following categories: Student, Faculty,Outreach and Engagement Professional, Community Partner, Distinguished Dissertation, Institutional Leadership, and Distinguished Engaged Scholar.
Learn more and submit a nomination
Nominations deadline: May 1, 2026
Professional Development
2026 Emerging Engagement Scholarship Workshop
The Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW) is an intensive professional development program that provides advanced doctoral students and early career faculty with background literature, dialogue, mentoring, and workshops designed to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of community-engaged scholarship. The EESW is competitive with only 15-20 applicants selected each year.
Highlights:
Learn the basic foundations of community-engaged scholarship, research, and practice
You will have a designated faculty mentor, and participate in small-group work
Panel discussions with faculty and community organizations
Get connected with a national network of engaged scholars!
This year's EESW will take place on Monday, October 5 and Tuesday, October 6, 2026, immediately before the Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. Workshop participants can take full advantage of the larger conference program.
Application deadline : May 30, 2026
Service
Call for Reviewers
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium is seeking reviewers for its Awards Program nominations and Conference proposals, and later this year its Grants program applications.
To express your interest in serving as a reviewer for these programs, please click the button below to indicate which you would be interested in reviewing. Committee chairs will identify and contact reviewers for each program to confirm their interest. If you are no longer available at the time of review or are solicited to be on multiple review committees, you may decline at that time.
We hope you will engage in the critical work that the ESC is doing to recognize, support, and disseminate the engaged scholarship of faculty, staff, and students.
Publishing
Journal Special Issue Calls for Submissions
ESC Updates will occasionally include calls for submissions to special issues of journals emphasizing community-engaged scholarship.
Special issue: Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Sustainable Agriculture
Submission deadline: August 31, 2026
Research Involvement and Engagement
Special issue: Patients and Publications: Expanding Perspectives in Research
Submission deadline: November 15, 2026
Special issue: Our Democratic Imagination
Submission deadline: December 31, 2026
Jobs
ESC Updates will occasionally include links to position announcements released by its member institutions. See the ESC website for a fuller list of position announcements shared with the Consortium.
Community Outreach Coordinator, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University
Strategic Engagement and Grants Specialist, Public Service and Outreach, University of Georgia
Vice President for Outreach, Engagement, and Regional Development, Northern Illinois University
Director, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, University of Georgia
