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Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth
Article by Jessica Henderson | October 10, 2025
University of Delaware Assistant Professors Eric Layland and Brittany Zakszeski share guidance for parents, teachers and school leaders
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Supporting Delaware’s LGBT+ Youth
Article by Jessica Henderson | October 10, 2025
University of Delaware Assistant Professor Eric Layland finds elevated mental health symptoms and underage substance use among Delaware LGBT+ youth
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For the Record, Oct. 10, 2025
Article by UDaily staff | October 10, 2025
University of Delaware community reports new publications, presentations, honors, appointments
Interdisciplinary Programs
Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement
Partnerships help us provoke new thinking in the classroom, pursue new insights in every field, translate our discoveries to innovation and engage with the community."
The Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement prepares educated, engaged citizens and scholars who can address critical community issues and contribute to the public good. This certificate is particularly beneficial as funding agencies increasingly require researchers to articulate their work’s relevance and wider societal impact.
Recorded on students' transcripts, the certificate creates a scaffold by which scholars integrate their academic study into community engagement experiences through participation in coursework, community-focused graduate research or creative work, and hands-on experience.
Scholars will maintain a portfolio that may contain reflection materials, research documents, a record of experiential hours and a final synthesis that documents their deepened understanding as community-engaged scholars.
The Graduate Community Engagement Summer Scholars program offers highly motivated graduate students the opportunity to immerse themselves in community-based research or creative projects. Scholars spend 10 weeks (20-25 hours/week) during the summer in full-time pursuit of their projects in partnership with a Delaware nonprofit, government, community-based action research or service-based corporate agency and simultaneously pursue academic reflection. At the conclusion of the program, scholars present their projects at a symposium and receive a stipend of $5,000.
This program is open to students from any academic discipline, providing a valuable opportunity to pursue community-engaged scholarship.
Advisement
Students will assess their projects with assistance from CEI. They will submit a final report upon completion of the project.
News
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Three ways to partner with DAR on volunteer programs
Article by Development and Alumni Relations Staff | October 09, 2025
Earn swag and help us celebrate your volunteers!
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Cochran Scholars Lecture Series launches Oct. 16
Article by Office of Development and Alumni Relations | October 08, 2025
Three John and Patricia Cochran Scholar awardees will discuss their research
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Growing new partnerships
Article by Kaitlyn Diehl | October 08, 2025
ELI garden harvests campus, community collaboration
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