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  • Education sub-menuEducation

    With a strong emphasis on student-centered learning, critical literacy, and liberal arts and sciences education, OSUN creates diverse global classrooms of students who learn from each other and collectively develop a culture of dialogue and debate.

    • Teaching
      • Birkbeck Summer School
      • Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP)
      • Developing Teaching Professionals
      • Global History Lab
      • Global Teaching Fellowship Program
      • GLOBALED
      • Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
      • Network Collaborative Courses
      • OSUN Courses
    • Threatened Scholars
      Initiative

    • Mobility

    • Certificate Programs
    • Curricula
      • CORUSUS
      • Economic Democracy Initiative
      • Economic Policy Addressing Inequality and Poverty
      • Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network
      • Human Rights Program
      • Liberal Arts and Sciences Collaborative
      • Policy Labs
      • Professional Development Program for University Administrators
      • Public Health and Human Rights
      • Strengthening the Core
      • Transnational Politics
      • Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice
  • Research sub-menuResearch

    OSUN promotes collaboration across its partner institutions, including the codesign of research projects, to explore issues of global and local relevance through socially engaged research, interdisciplinary collaboration, or comparative research.

    • Research Projects
      • The Democracy Institute
      • Economic Democracy Initiative
      • Engaged Scholarship
      • GEOHUB
      • Global Institute of Advanced Study
      • Global Observatory on Academic Freedom
      • Interruptrr
      • Open Society Research Platform
      • Research Creation Initiative
      • Senior Projects
    • Fellowships
      • Chatham House Academy Fellowships
      • Global Scholars Academy
      • Modular Doctoral Program
  • Access sub-menuAccess

    OSUN expands access to higher education by creating new pathways for underserved communities. Academic integration and connected learning bring educational opportunities to students beyond OSUN’s brick-and-mortar campuses.

    • Teacher Education
      • Enhanced Network Teacher Education Capacity
      • Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
    • Education Pathways
      • Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescents
      • Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison
      • English Learner Success in Content Classrooms
      • Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
      • Microcollege for Just Community Leadership
      • OLIve
      • Roma Equity in Higher Education
      • The Socrates Project
  • Civic sub-menuCivic Engagement

    With a belief in the public purpose of higher education, civic engagement across OSUN promotes best practices and bold new initiatives to help students, faculty, and institutions realize their full potential as community actors and educators.

    • Student Engagement
      • Global Commons
      • Global Debate Network
      • Global Engagement Fellows
      • Get Engaged Conference
      • Online Arts Workshop
      • Student-Led Initiatives
      • Student Life Initiatives Project (SLIP)
    • Engaged Learning
      • Certificate in Civic Engagement
      • Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences
      • Engaged Scholarship
      • Engaged Senior Projects
      • OSUN Science Shop
      • Solve Climate by 2030
  • News sub-menuNews + Opportunities

    OSUN offers myriad opportunities and events to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and scholars, and faculty. News and features provide updates on project impacts and the people involved.

    • Newsroom
      • Current News         
      • News Archive
    • Events
      • Current Events
      • Events Archive
    • Opportunities
      • Current Opportunities
      • Student Opportunities
      • Faculty Opportunities
      • Opportunities Archive
  • Resources sub-menuResources

    OSUN faculty and institutions have worked collectively to assemble this dynamic collection of student-centered teaching methodologies and instructional strategies. Whether working online, in person, or in a blended context, establishing a clear and consistent communication plan with students is central to all of these practices.

    • OSUN Resources
      • Academic Technology Guides
      • Blended Learning Toolkit
  • About sub-menuAbout

    OSUN aims to educate students for tomorrow’s global challenges, fostering critical thinking and open intellectual inquiry to strengthen the foundations of open society amid the current authoritarian resurgence.

    • About OSUN
      • Our Vision
      • Who We Are
      • What We Do
      • Member Institutions
      • Themes
      • Annual Report
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Institutional Engagement

Civic Engagement Menu
  • Student Engagement
    • Global Commons
    • Global Engagement Fellows
    • Get Engaged Conference
    • Online Arts Workshop
    • Student-Led Initiatives
    • Student Life Initiatives Project (SLIP)
  • Engaged Learning
    • Certificate in Civic Engagement
    • Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Engaged Senior Projects
    • OSUN Science Shop
  • Institutional Engagement
    • COV-AID
    • Engaged Scholarship
    • Global Debate Network
    • Protests in Perspective
    • Solve Climate by 2030
    • Tomorrow is Now
OSUN is committed to supporting member institutions deepen existing regional, national, and international connections, and forge new ones.

Institutional Engagement in Action

  • Engaged Scholarship
    OSUN offers financial and infrastructure support to faculty and graduate students at OSUN member institutions who are interested in engaged scholarship. This support can help faculty identify community partners and provide resources for faculty. 
  • Global Debate Network
    The Global Debate Network will support the development and growth of successful multilevel debate programs at all participating OSUN institutions, while creating meaningful pathways of exchange and collaboration among them.
  • COV-AID
    Communities of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence
    COV-AID seeks to collect and share stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, document practical steps and strategies, and strengthen public support for engaged universities.
  • Tomorrow Is Now
    The Eleanor Roosevelt Conferences: A Virtual Discussion Series Highlighting the Relevance of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Legacy in Today’s Crisis, named for the last book Eleanor Roosevelt authored, published posthumously in 1962 and still relevant today.
  • Photo by Bettina Campomanes
    Photo by Bettina Campomanes
    Solve Climate by 2030
    A coordinated climate education initiative across Open Society University Network and beyond.
     
  • Protests in Perspective
    Conversations with some of the leading voices on racial justice, human rights, and the history of protest movements.

   

“An anchor strategy is more than the sum of individual community engagement programs; it is a mission developed to address tenacious community challenges, and implemented to permeate an institution’s culture and change the way it does business.”

— The Democracy Collaborative

Open Society University Network
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