Community Engagement

When ECU students, faculty and staff work in partnership with community members to solve problems, that’s when traditional research becomes community engaged research. ECU works alongside community partners to develop research questions, determine methods to investigate an identified problem, collect and analyze data, interpret the data and share results with others.

ECU has been recognized as a Carnegie Foundation Community Engaged institution and has been designated by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University. Additionally, the university was awarded the prestigious C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Award from the Lucille W. Gorham Intergenerational Community Center in 2012.  ECU has a strong history of working together with communities to fight health, education and economic disparities in the region and we’re continuing to uphold that tradition.

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Contact

Sharon Paynter
Chief Innovation and Engagement Officer
paynters@ecu.edu
Office of Economic and Community Engagement