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On February 11th, 2015, the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences' Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship hosted a full-day event on Community Engaged Scholarship (CES). The event consisted of two panel discussions and two intensive workshops, and was attended by 44 individuals from multiple disciplines. 

While the tools of civically engaged higher education (service-learning, community-based research, etc.) existed in sociology classes well before the onset of what some call the “civic engagement movement,” they have quickly shifted from margin to center as key building blocks for sociology’s own trend toward public sociology.