C2UExpo 2017 will celebrate and showcase community-campus partnerships – local, national and global – which advance social, health, environmental, educational and collective strategies supporting transformation for the common good.
The conference is now accepting proposals for presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops and more that fall under the following four themes. Submit your proposal today by visiting the conference website.
Proposals are due by November 13, 2016.
C2UExpo 2017 Conference Themes:
The Engagement Process: Powerful Questions, Powerful Questioning
Engagement serves as an ethos and functional platform to bring together diverse academic and community entities, each having different strengths and differing sources of power. This theme invites proposals that:
- Draw on approaches that include reflective practitioners and inquiry perspectives,
- Critically examine methods that support inclusivity and dialogue: listening, questioning, building consensus, holding space for conflict (thus making it easier for potential partners to discover their shared purpose and pull together in the same direction), and
- Examine community-campus engagements from the lens of ethical research (policy and practice), viewing community as teachers, areas of misalignment between community-based research funding and project needs, and supporting academic transformational change (i.e., elevating what we mean by “engaged research”).
The Community to Campus Project Life Cycle
Project conception, ideation, and determination! This theme celebrates community-campus partnerships that have developed to the stage of producing tangible changes in the world – such as reducing homelessness, preserving the environment and, creating access to credit. This theme invites proposals that address:
- The essential elements that enable projects to achieve change
- The role of social innovation as a spark for change
- Key lessons for the next generation of community-campus collaborations that want to transform society for the common good.
Comprehensive Community-Campus Engagement
Community-campus partnerships extend across research (community-engaged research, participatory action research), experiential education (e.g., service learning, co-op, and practicums), and senior leadership (alliance-building with public and private sectors domestically and internationally). This theme examines different forms of community-campus engagement and probes the full potential of community-campus initiatives for the common good.
Community-Campus Partnerships Without Borders
Community-campus projects extend across time zones, languages, and political and cultural differences. This theme examines the unique challenges and opportunities associated with projects that bridge distance and difference in order to achieve change.