Recognizing the value and impact of their individual communities, Rural serving institutions play a vital role in engaging, serving, and connecting their communities, to resources, experiences, and opportunities, within and beyond their locale. Through efforts to create synergy and collaboration between rural serving institutions and the communities they serve continue to expand, limited access to resources, time constraints, and an array of other challenges continue to serve as barriers against engagement. This CoP will consider the state of community engagement across rural serving institutions nationally: what’s gone well, what has been learned, and what are the ongoing challenges? Through open dialogue, it will facilitate an exchange of resources and learned experiences, to better address challenges for community engagement experienced by rural serving nationwide

Co-facilitators: Stephanie Lesperance & Dreama Gentry