Welcome to the Office of Engagement and Outreach

Building from UW’s Strategic Plan, Breaking Through: 2017-2022, the Office of Engagement and Outreach (OEO) has been created to be a portal of access to UW for the citizens of Wyoming (and beyond) and to coordinate and streamline engagement and outreach efforts to achieve enhanced consistency, follow-through, and impact. OEO responds to the challenge in UW’s strategic plan to commit itself to “scholarship, outreach and service that extend our human talent and technological capacity to serve the people in our communities, our state, the nation, and the world.” At the heart of that commitment are the values of engagement and communication, and the specific goal to “improve and enhance the health and well-being of our communities and environments through outreach programs and in collaboration with our constituents and partners.” Building on our history and identity as Wyoming’s sole land-grant and public flagship institution we will work to implement a new vision for engagement and outreach with our communities. We look forward to partnering with campus and statewide constituents to elevate the university’s already substantial efforts in community engagement and outreach.

OEO Contact Information

Providing a healthy and safe campus environment is our top priority for the University of Wyoming. In response to concerns regarding the novel coronavirus COVID-19, to contact our Office please call 766-5202 or email engage@uwyo.edu.

Who we are

Staff

UW Engagement Council

AmeriCorps program

Reports and Strategic Planning

UW’s Engagement Task Force completed its final report, Envisioning Community Engagement and Outreach, in May 2018. This report and the supporting materials have been posted to share with UW and Wyoming communities. A strategic plan will be completed in Spring 2019 and posted. More information on the Engagement Task Force report.

View: OEO Strategic Plan

Campus-wide survey

In the spring of 2018, a faculty and staff survey was deployed to each UW unit to further inventory specific engagement activities and community impact. The campus-wide survey represents a conservative estimate of UW’s statewide outreach and engagement and provides data to understand the wins we should celebrate and where we can strategically invest. Results of the voluntary survey completed by 83 UW units show 1,296,287 individuals across all counties were served by UW engagement/outreach efforts in 2016-17, and the 666,795 contact hours for these efforts represent the equivalent of 321 fulltime employees (FTEs). Select reports and maps are available here.

Fostering and Rewarding Excellence

OEO Community Engagement Resource Guide

Faculty Engagement Fellowships

Marvin Millgate Community Engagement Awards

UW Women's Suffrage Grants

Not currently accepting applications

OEO K-12 Outreach/In-reach grants

Not currently accepting applications

Statewide Events

Saturday University

Suffrage Events

Wallop Civic Engagement Program

World to Wyoming

UWYO Events Calendar

Professional Development Opportunities

Interactive Map of Past Events

Sponsors and Partners

We are so thankful for our sponsors and partners who generously support University of Wyoming Engagement and Outreach programming with their time, talents and funding. Please visit our sponsors and partners page.

The Office of Engagement and Outreach is appreciative of all gifts. For questions, please contact the UW Foundation at 307-766-6300 or foundation@uwyo.edu.

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Office of Engagement and Outreach in the News

New UWYO Events Calendar

The Office of Engagement and Outreach is excited to provide the UWYO Events Calendar. The calendar provides a means to post UW-sponsored statewide events for the first time. Users will be able to filter events by event type, county and audience, and to search by keyword. The new UWYO Events Calendar includes all department/unit calendar events, providing users a single calendar to discover all UWYO Events.

UWYO Events, Statewide Engagement Calendar

UW News

The new Office of Engagement and Outreach serves as a portal to the citizens of Wyoming.

From agriculture and education to events, research and outreach, you can find the University of Wyoming at work in every corner of the state. Earlier this year, UW launched the Office of Engagement and Outreach to increase citizen access to the university and to streamline engagement efforts. Read more about Engaging Wyoming in the Winter 2020 issue of UWYO Magazine.

Private Gift to UW Supports Civic Engagement

The $100,000 gift to the University of Wyoming from The Tucker Foundation will support the Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Project, which focuses on conversations about issues of significant public concern—part of UW’s strategic plan and service to the state. Read more about The Tucker Foundation gift ->

Garrison Selected to Lead New UW Office of Engagement and Outreach

A longtime University of Wyoming faculty member who has led wide-ranging outreach programs around the state has been selected to lead UW’s new Office of Engagement and Outreach. Read more about the selection of Dr. Garrison->