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    110 Morrill Hall
    100 Church St. SE
    Minneapolis, MN 55455
    (612) 624-1562

19th Annual National Service-Learning Conference
OPE is an affiliate of the 19th Annual National Service-Learning Conference.

Welcome to the Office for Public Engagement!

The Office for Public Engagement works to enhance the University of Minnesota’s activities and stature as a publicly engaged research university. More about OPE.

Recent Public Engagement News

Angela Dawson, keynote speaker for Public Engagement Day 2008 and cofounder and director of the Northside Food Project The Office for Public Engagement hosts the second annual Public Engagement Day on April 22, 2008 on the Twin Cities Campus. Angela Dawson, keynote speaker and cofounder and director of the Northside Food Project, will discuss the challenge of change in university-community partnerships. To learn about the rest of the day's activities, read the complete story.

The University's partnerships with Hope Community and Learning Dreams follow different timelines and approaches, but they both work to achieve the same goal: to create change by combining University and community knowledge. See UMNnews, Mar. 26, 2008, for the complete story.

Dan Kaskubar and Ben Schein, leadership of Carlson Neighborhood Business Fellows. The Carlson Neighborhood Business Fellows, a program started by Carlson's MBA students, is working to build a relationship with their neighbor: the Cedar-Riverside business community.For more information about this new initiative, read the complete story.

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