Centers

Center for Engagement and Community Development

The mission of the Center for Engagement and Community Development is to promote engagement across the breadth of our campus- in teaching, research, and outreach - and to connect the vast resources of K-State to the significant issues of public need facing Kansas and communities worldwide.

Current Projects:

CECD initiatives include:

  • Rural Grocery Store Sustainability- Confronting issues of business development, public health and community sustainability, CECD is partnering with the Kansas Sampler Foundation, the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, grocery store owners from across the state and faculty and staff from the departments of agricultural economics, human nutrition and rural sociology at K-State to identify and develop models to sustain retail sources of food for rural Kansas citizens.
  • Public Issues Education
  • Benchmarking and Assessing Engagement and Community Development


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Outreach

  • There is no information available at this time about outreach with which the Center for Engagement and Community Development is involved.