Community Engagement
Faculty Events
Engaged @Noon
Where ideas meet impact
Please join us for our hybrid Engaged @Noon Series to discuss various opportunities and resources for faculty at °®¶¹´«Ã½. Hosted by the Community Engagement team in the Office of University Community Partnerships.
ASSESSING COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING:
°®¶¹´«Ã½, Faculty & Community Partners
Participate in a conversation about how °®¶¹´«Ã½ faculty evaluate students in experiential learning courses. Discover innovative methods to assess your learners and understand the significance of feedback from community collaborators.
Featured Speaker:
Lori Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Criminology
Dr. Lori L. Hall is an Assistant Professor of Instruction with over a decade of experience in teaching and research, specializing in critical criminology, trauma-informed practices, and transformative justice. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology with a concentration in Crime/Deviance and Race from Virginia Tech. Dr. Hall also holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from Arkansas State University and a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
With a student-centered approach to teaching, Dr. Hall emphasizes the importance of creating spaces where all students feel supported, valued, and included using a trauma-responsive pedagogy. She incorporates a variety of teaching methods to engage students and ensure that they not only grasp course content but also apply critical thinking to real-world justice issues. To this end Dr. Hall and some of her students’ work have contributed greatly to several podcasts, like .
December 4, 2025​
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CGS Room 140 or virtually
Are your students connecting the dots?
Reflection Assignments
Molly Hamm-RodrÃguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education
Dr. Molly Hamm-RodrÃguez is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education specializing in anthropology of education and comparative and international education. Dr. Hamm-RodrÃguez completed a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder’s School of Education. She holds an M.A. in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also completed a B.A. in English and B.S. in Secondary Education (6th-12th grade English language arts teaching license) at Kansas State University.
Dr. Hamm-RodrÃguez uses ethnography, archival methods, oral histories, community-based and youth participatory action research, and discourse analysis. Her research has been supported by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Her research priorities are developed through reciprocal relationships that center youth and community voices as well as through research-practice partnerships with schools, districts, and community-based organizations.
SAVE THE DATE
February 3, 2026
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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