The CRC hosts public events, symposia, dialogues, and training opportunities that bring people together around urgent questions facing West Virginia and beyond. Join the conversations, relationships, and shared learning that shape our work.
CRC Symposium — Let's Grow Together
The 2026 CRC Symposium "Let's Grow Together" brings students, scholars, and community partners into a shared space to celebrate the transformative power of community engaged research. Each year, the symposium highlights long-term project partnerships that have grown through university–community collaboration and creates opportunities for new conversations, friendships and ideas to take root. In doing so, the togetherness at the symposium reminds us that resilient communities are cultivated through meaningful relationships, shared knowledge, and collective action.
The Resilient Communities Engaged Research Dialogues Series
The Resilient Communities Engaged Research Dialogues Series welcomes community-engaged scholars to share insights on their approaches, orientations, and efforts to generate knowledge and contribute to social transformation. We elevate conversations on key concepts and methodologies used by community engaged scholars while fostering an uplifting atmosphere.
All dialogues will take place online. Viewers and listeners can tune in via Zoom or in-person at the CRC in Brooks Hall. Zoom details will be provided to registered participants.
Advance registration is required. You can register here.
About the Series
Community-engaged scholars are invited to share insights on their approaches, orientations, and efforts to generate knowledge and contribute to social transformation.
We elevate conversations on key concepts and methodologies used by community engaged scholars while fostering an uplifting atmosphere.
Vibrant Transformations:
West Virginia Youth Resilience Leadership Summit
The Vibrant Transformations: West Virginia Youth Resilience Leadership Summit brings together young leaders, educators, community organizations, and mentors from across the region to explore how youth can prepare for the future and contribute to vibrant transformations in their communities. The summit will create an encouraging environment to share experiences, learn practical tools for community action, build networks of support, and explore pathways for contributing to the well-being of West Virginia.
At its core, the summit affirms a simple but powerful idea: young people are not just the future of their communities—they are active protagonists in shaping them today.
July 23–26 · West Virginia University, Morgantown
Summit Goals
The Youth Resilience Leadership Summit seeks to:
Young people develop confidence, skills, and relationships that support their continued engagement in community initiatives.
Participants build connections with peers, mentors, and organizations working toward vibrant communities.
Participants exchange experiences and strategies for addressing local challenges.
Participants leave the summit with ideas, partnerships, and motivation to contribute to their communities.
Participants are introduced to higher education as a space for growth helping them imagine new educational pathways that support both personal development and the well-being of their communities.
Geographies of Possibility:
Engaged Research, Pedagogies and Partnerships in Hard Times
Early Career Scholar Convergence
We are living through what many simply call hard times. Across regions and institutions, people are confronting overlapping economic, ecological, and political crises that strain livelihoods and unsettle long-standing assumptions about the future. Yet hard times are also moments of conjuncture when communities organize, experiment, and build new forms of solidarity.
For scholars committed to community-engaged research, the question is not only how to analyze these transformations, but how to accompany communities in the collective work of imagining and creating more just and resilient futures.
Rajesh Tandon
A world-renowned leader in participatory research and community-engaged scholarship, Rajesh Tandon brings decades of experience advancing socially responsible higher education and grassroots knowledge co-creation.
Conference Details