Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. has appointed a new Provost’s Advisory Committee on Community Engaged Scholarship. The committee’s members are:

• Matthew Hartley, Deputy Dean, Professor, and Board of Advisors Chair of Education, Graduate School of Education (Chair)
• Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies
• Lisa M. Bellini, Senior Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
• Dennis DeTurck, Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor and Professor of Mathematics, School of Arts & Sciences
• Loretta Flanagan-Cato, Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, School of Arts & Sciences
• Dalmacio Dennis Flores, Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
• Andy Tan, Associate Professor of Communication and Director, Health Communication & Equity Lab, Annenberg School for Communication
• Melissa J. Wilde, Professor and Chair of Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences

The committee’s charge is to advise the Provost’s Office on how to further advance community-engaged scholarship at Penn. This will include encouraging further discussions at the school or departmental levels, as well as developing a plan for the ongoing mentoring of faculty and doctoral students interested in or engaged in this work. The committee will work closely with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, which will provide assistance connecting faculty to community organizations, communities of faith, and local schools. The Netter Center will also support the committee by providing staff support, as well as serving as a repository for information and documents on community engaged scholarship. The committee’s work builds on the 2022 report of the ad hoc Faculty Committee on Community Engaged Scholarship, which aimed to offer an initial definition of community-engaged scholarship at and for Penn.