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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Over the past four years, CFICE has been looking at community-campus engagement (CCE) in all its forms. Experiential learning, a CCE method that has been embraced by many universities and colleges in such forms as community service learning, is one of the CCE methods CFICE has been exploring. In this journal article titled Towards... More
Friday, May 12, 2017
The Handbook of Community Well-Being Research brings together foundational and leading-edge research exploring dimensions of improving quality of life in communities of place. It explores social indicators and other assessment techniques including from the framework of community perspectives which is concerned with enhancing quality of life for... More
Thursday, March 16, 2017
In this paper, titled Information into knowledge: navigating the complexity in the campus community engagement context, the authors draw on two case studies from a current research project investigating the impact of campus-community engagement (CCE) to examine how the fundamental functions for effective knowledge mobilization were used. The K*... More
Monday, February 6, 2017
One of the top questions on CFICE researchers' minds over the past four years has been whether or not (and how) community-campus engagement can contribute to building social movements. In Phase I, each of the hubs explored this question in more or less detail. Well the Community Food Security hub now has an answer to... More
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
This plain language podcast is based on an article titled A study of living wage effects on employees' performance-related attitudes and behaviour by Zhaocheng Zeng and Benson Honig. In this article, the authors discuss the different attitudes towards their jobs held by living wage employees versus minimum wage employees. Download a copy of... More
Thursday, September 22, 2016
“This book is dedicated to Cathleen Kneen, a contributor to this work. She was an educator, activist and friend whose spirit continues to guide us in our work on food system transformation.” A new book is out that community-campus partners and food researchers might want to dive into this harvest season. Titled Learning, Food, and... More
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
In 2013-2014, Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement’s (CFICE) Community Food Security (CFS) Hub supported a project called "Creating a Food Hub Through University-Community Partnership." This project entailed conducting a developmental evaluation of the collaborative work occurring through Guelph University's Research Shop on... More
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement's (CFICE) Community Food Security Hub helped fund a project to address food insecurity in northern and remote communities in Canada. In collaboration with Food Secure Canada, Mt. St. Vincent University, and Lakehead University, this project renewed the work on food costing in Northern Canada so... More
Thursday, May 26, 2016
This plain language podcast is based on an article titled Transformative Research as Knowledge Mobilization: Transmedia, bridges, and layers by Colin R. Anderson and Stéphane M. McLachlan. In their article, they discuss several different strategies for making academic research more accessible. Download a copy of the podcast transcript. Podcast... More
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
FPA Voices offers concise, compelling, and thought-provoking profiles of the people who make FPA such an engaging and creative place to work. Highlights in our February Issue: Student Emily Chan brings Rwandan friends home. Alumna Natasha Pei works to end poverty. Researcher Karim Karim seeks examples of Muslim/Western cooperation. We would... More
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Journal of Higher Education, Outreach, & Engagement is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal whose aim is to advance theory and practice related to all forms of outreach and engagement between communities institutions of higher education. Individuals who wish to disseminate their research in public service, outreach, engagement,... More
Thursday, January 15, 2015
The editors of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) are pleased to announce publication of the most recent special edition of the Journal entitled 'University Engineering Programs That Impact Communities: Critical Analyses and Reflection'. We hope you enjoy... More
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