Faculty Events & Workshops – Centre for Community Partnerships

The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) hosts a variety of faculty programs and events that bring together instructors who teach, or are interested in teaching, community-engaged learning (CEL) courses. In partnership with the Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS), the CCP also offers programs and events for faculty involved in community-engaged research (CER).

See below for our list of Winter 2023 events and workshops. To stay up to date on upcoming events, please subscribe to our faculty newsletter.

Winter 2023

Faculty Roundtable: Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Community-Engaged Research and Learning in the Academy

February 3, 2023, 10:30am – 12:00pm ET (online)

Faculty researchers and instructors come together to discuss anti-oppressive approaches to CEL and/or CER in the academy, how they prepare students for this work, and some of the impacts for those involved.

CEL Faculty CoP: Equitable Community Partnerships When Working With and For Black Communities

February 15, 2023, 1:30 – 2:30pm ET (online)

A conversation led by Professor Notisha Massaquoi, addressing ways of building effective partnerships with Black community members and organizations.

CEL Faculty CoP: Addressing Power and Privilege in CEL through Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Approaches

March 10, 2023, 1:10 – 2:00pm ET (online)

A discussion of power and privilege in CEL led by Professor Aditi Mehta, whose work has involved collaborating with Regent Park residents and teaching ethnography in an Inside-Out prison classroom.

Faculty Roundtable: Respectful and Reciprocal Partnerships with Indigenous Community Organizations

Date TBD (online)

Faculty and community partners come together to share wise practices in developing respectful and equitable relationships with Indigenous community organizations.

Course Development Workshop

April 19, 2023, 10:30am – 12:00pm ET (online)

Covering the fundamentals of CEL pedagogy and practice while providing practical strategies for designing and running a CEL course, this workshop invites instructors to bring a syllabus that they would like to re-design or an idea for a course they would like to create.