Conference Session

Community and Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

agencies really like it too, but it's not always understood by my colleagues what I do. …. I think I even work more with people outside of my department and other disciplines [including] public health, environmental sociologists, and microbiology. It’s like they understand the work. …. The way that I’m engaging is very participatory and bi-directional. …. And I think the funding agencies see the value in it and the amount of information that I'm getting. And the things that I'm learning from the community are so [significant]. … I’m even writing grants differently now, because I have specific things that I propose. But I'm also allocating funding in a space for the community to decide what they want to do, and what they want to