The Morgridge Center for Public Service is launching this new professional development program to further institutionalize and support community engaged scholarship at the university.

Community engaged scholarship (CES) is defined as teaching, research and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities and community members to fulfill campus and community objectives.

Garbacz is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Psychology whose research focuses on developing and testing family centered and family-school partnership interventions to promote children’s social behavioral competencies and reduce the risk of later problem behavior. His work emphasizes aligning and integrating family-school-community engagement in a three-tier prevention framework.

Garbacz frequently collaborates with schools, community agencies and organizations to improve practical implications of research for children, families, and schools.

To learn more about all of the new Morgridge Fellows, check out this Morgridge Center for Public Service news release.