About

Engaged Learning at the University of Michigan is a campus-wide portal connecting students and faculty and staff to engagement opportunities in Detroit, Michigan and beyond! Our office is dedicated to helping students connect with opportunities that not only enhance their academic journey but help carve a path for them as they embark on their lifetime journey of learning. With support of faculty and staff we strive to continue to broaden our engagement opportunities and meet the demands of the ever changing professional landscape that students will soon find themselves.

This site is dedicated to promoting these two intertwined threads at the University of Michigan:

• Interdisciplinary work that crosses our academic disciplines and brings together multiple modes of thought and approaches to knowing; and
• Engagement of our faculty, staff, and students with authentic stakeholders in our work, to both inform and guide the work with these stakeholders’ own knowledge and understanding and to realize their own opportunities through the conduct of the work.

Twenty-first-century problems will not be solved with twentieth-century skills alone or within traditional academic disciplinary domains in the ivory tower.

Faculty, staff, students, and community members all play a critical role in addressing these challenges and making our world better. We all share a commitment to positive change pursued in partnership — across the disciplines, with the community, and around the world.