Upcoming Roundtable
The next University Roundtable on Transformative Regional Engagement will be held September 27 and 28, 2009, at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Contact Melanie Baer or call 706-542-6638, for registration and additional information.
What is Transformative Regional Engagement (TRE)?
Transformative Regional Engagement (TRE) brings together university, education, government, and private partners in coordinated efforts to transform the prosperity of a region (i.e., mega-community) through education, economic, workforce, and community development.
Mission of the Roundtable
Defining the 21st Century Regional Engagement Mission for Universities.
University and WIRED pioneers gather to share learning from new leadership opportunities in transformational regional economies; re-scope the evolving university engagement mission originally laid out in the Morrill Act for land grant colleges; and forge consensus around scholarship needed to advance new university roles, responsibilities, and opportunities to impact public policy and expand engagement.
Overview of the October 6, 2008 Roundtable
The University Roundtable on Transformative Regional Engagement (TRE) gathered forty-eight participants to an event preceding the National Outreach Scholarship Conference held in State College, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State University and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities' (formerly NASULGC) Council on Engagement and Outreach cosponsored the Roundtable. The six-hour discussion spanned topics that included developing a scholarly framework for regional engagement; the dialectic formed by the purpose and potential of the evolving mission in relation to pressures to maintain the status quo; lessons learned from pioneering efforts by universities and U.S. Department of Labor WIRED regions; and finally, the implications for this work. The distinguished gathering brought together participants from fifteen states, sixteen universities, and ten or more state, federal, or national organizations.
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