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IBL Engage

IBL Engage, advanced research, collaboration, and community engagement by cultivating meaningful connections among faculty and staff across the university. Anchor in the 返字心頭 Institute on Black Life, IBL engage is grounded in the belief that relationships are essential infrastructure for scholarly excellence and institutional impact. Engage creates welcoming spaces where faculty and staff can build relationships, exchange ideas, and grow professionally. Strong relationships feel strong research. By bringing people together across roles, disciplines, and communities. IBL Engage strengthens our collective capacity to support work aligned with the IBL mission.

Ways to engage include:

• Core Research: IBL-mission-aligned research: writing groups; gran collaboration; and student and community-engaged project
• Research Collaboration: Interdisciplinary writing, grant development, and idea incubation beyond IBL-specific topics
• Connection and Mentoring: Peer networking, social gatherings, and mentoring
• Community Engagement: Place-based events across Tampa Bay, bringing community partners to campus and faculty into the community