Opportunities to Get Involved

研究:

  • Dedman College Linking Fellowships help 教师 connect with colleagues in other disciplines and expand their interdisciplinary research capabilities
  • 的 Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute provides a platform for collaboration and the exchange of ideas across academic disciplines, helping to forge connections between the physical sciences, 社会科学, humanities; between Dedman College and SMU’s professional schools; and between academia and the broader community. 的 DCII provides funds for cluster speakers series and advanced symposia, support for 教师 research assistants, organizes the Big Challenge program that tackles a major challenge facing humanity with associated events and programming.
  • Cluster-specific funds for projects that are collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature, that help advance the cluster through new external research awards and publications, that leverage existing resources and projects.
  • 与达拉斯, SMU’s place-based community engagement program serving south and west Dallas, offers research grants and collaboration opportunities with its 34 non-profit partner organizations, 教师, 工作人员, student volunteers. Current research with 与达拉斯 centers on community partner engagement with universities, student leadership learning, 项目, a longitudinal study of student learning through place-based community engagement.

Teaching and Mentoring:

  • Faculty contribute courses to interdisciplinary majors such as that of the SMU Human Rights Program. 的 SMU Human Rights Program is educating a new generation of visionary changemakers to defend and demand human dignity. As one of only seven 项目 in the United States to grant a bachelor's degree in Human Rights, it offers over 100 academic courses, educational travel opportunities across the globe, a variety of proven social innovation efforts in North Texas.
  • Faculty can bring their expertise in any aspects of urban life to the University Honors Program’s interdisciplinary team-taught course, 的 Greater Dallas Experience. In its emphasis on understanding cities from different disciplinary perspectives, course seeks to serve as a catalyst for innovation and problem solving. 超越正式学习, course directly involves and engages students with various aspects of the city and its inhabitants via field trips and community projects.
  • 的 Office of Engaged Learning, Hegi Family Career Development Center, McNair Scholars Program, 与达拉斯, alongside other initiatives on campus, offer 教师 the opportunity to mentor research and high-impact projects via paid internships, undergraduate research assistantships, or Engaged Learning Fellowships.
  • 与达拉斯 invites 教师 to connect relevant courses to their eleven community-identified needs (e.g., homelessness, food insecurity, college access, immigrant and refugee support, etc.) to permit students to obtain general education and other Common Curriculum requirements. 的 与达拉斯 team supports the development of such courses via coaching, 金融, 还有其他方法. 例如, a Corporate Communications and Public Affairs course teaching Communication 研究 and Data Analytics partners with a non-profit organization so students can learn focus group facilitation skills and survey design and analysis while benefiting a local non-profit organization. Plans exist to develop a grant-writing course helping SMU and our community partners.

社区:

的 Urban 研究 Faculty Cluster offers an intellectual community with shared commitment to community-engaged research. You can also find community at SMU via :