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SIU System Office of Community Engagement outlines roadmap, targets clean-energy jobs and broadband projects
Summary
The SIU System Office of Community Engagement presented a 2025–26 road map, announced new hires and projects including Lightcast workforce data subscriptions, a clean-energy workforce effort targeting 50 hires by year end, broadband/digital equity work and multiple grant proposals.
Connie Frost Spurlock, director of the SIU System Office of Community Engagement, told the Board of Trustees that the office has moved from interim staffing to a permanent team and outlined a 2025–26 road map focused on strategic integration, student-centered work and measurable community outcomes.
"Our mission in the office is to strengthen and expand mutually beneficial community university relationships across Southern Illinois," Spurlock said, summarizing the office's guiding framework and its use of community-centered models such as EPIC. She described recent hires, the addition of two program coordinators, and graduate students who support projects in environmental justice and digital equity.
Spurlock said the office purchased…
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