Register for Community-Engaged Publishing Workshop

Location: Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 from 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Attention: Faculty, Academic Staff, and Graduate Students

Do you have a great service-learning, outreach teaching, community-engaged research, or Extension project and are unsure how to write it up for a peer-reviewed publication? Are you familiar with disciplinary journals and are interested in branching out into interdisciplinary community engagement journals but not sure where to get started? Then this interactive workshop is for you.

Fundamentals of Publishing Community Engagement

From 9:00-10:30 am, we will focus on what makes publishing community-engaged work different than publishing traditional scholarship, how to incorporate community partner voices into your publishing, and how to unpack a robust project into multiple scholarly pieces.

Finding Strategic Journal “Fits” and Resources for Your Community Engagement

From 10:45-12:00 pm, we will focus on where to disseminate your community-engaged scholarship at community engagement friendly conferences and journals, how to achieve article “fit” with specific journals, and where to access more writing resources and support.

Workshop Schedule

8:30-9:00 Workshop check-in, light breakfast, networking

9:00-10:30 Fundamentals of Publishing Community Engagement

10:30-10:45 Break

10:30-12:00 Finding Strategic Journal “Fits” and Support for your Community Engagement

NOTE: You may attend the whole morning or just the part you’re interested in.

Sponsored by: University Outreach and Engagement, The Writing Center, The Graduate School

Diane M. Doberneck is the director of faculty and professional development in the university outreach and engagement office and adjunct associate professor of community sustainability at Michigan State University. Diane is a frequent journal reviewer for interdisciplinary community-engagement journals, recent co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, author of Campus Compact’s Knowledge Hub on Publishing Engaged Scholarship and MSU’s online toolkit, Resources for Publishing Community Engaged Scholarship, https://engage.msu.edu/learn/resources-for-publishing-community-engaged-scholarship

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Special Accommodations

If you require any special accommodations, please note them in the box below. We will do our best to comply with requests made by 2/13/2026. Requests made after that time will be accommodated if time and facilities permit.

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Please let us know if you plan to attend (check only one)
- Fundamentals of Publishing Community Engagement (9:00-10:30AM)
- Finding Strategic Journal “Fits” and Resources for Your Community Engagement (10:45AM-12:00PM)
- Both Sessions (9:00AM-12:00PM)

Event Information

For more information about this event, please contact:

Diane Doberneck

connordm@msu.edu
517‑353‑8977