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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Grant applications can be long and arduous processes, and can swallow a lot of your capacity and time, which is why it’s important to make sure the grant will suit your needs. Before applying for a grant like the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Partnership... More
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
by Kawsar Mohamed, CFICE CCEC Administrative Research Assistant As a student with a disability, I am not surprised about the recent findings of Statistics Canada, which demonstrate that unemployment rates among people with disabilities are at least twice the national and provincial levels of all age groups. I was therefore ecstatic when I... More
Monday, August 13, 2018
What is it like to receive funding to participate in community-campus engagement work? Magda Goemans and Anna Przednowek, two long-time CFICE research assistants, talk to CFICE about how continuous Community-Campus Engagement funding has impacted their experiences. Both speak to how continuous funding allowed them to immerse themselves in the... More
Monday, August 6, 2018
What's the difference for a community organization between receiving community project funding versus community-campus engagement project funding? What makes community-campus engagements challenging with respect to funding? What opportunities does community-campus engagement funding provide to community organizations? In this podcast, we sit down... More
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. Lee Rose is a curious social innovator with an knack for working across systems to drive change. He led the creation and development... More
Friday, July 27, 2018
What should community-campus engagement (CCE) look like for our students, our communities, and our institutions? This is the question that was posed to several panelists at the June 20, 2018 launch of Community-Campus Engage Canada, an emerging network of community-campus engagement practitioners seeking to share learnings and bolster the field of... More
Thursday, July 5, 2018
By Tyrone Burke Photos by Chris Roussakis The ivory tower’s walls are getting a little more permeable. For the past six years, the SSHRC-funded action research project Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) has studied how players on campus and in the community can partner to co-create knowledge and positively impact... More
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Erin Martel, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. Lynn Sutankayo is a partnership coordinator at University of Alberta's (North Campus) Community Service-Learning (CSL) unit, where she... More
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Post-secondary institutions have specific timelines, long processes for things like ethics approval or grant applications, and generally speaking, a complex power structure that can involve some firm top-down governance. These factors can easily complicate a campus-community partnership,... More
Thursday, June 28, 2018
by Diana Bronson, CFICE Community Co-Lead and Peter Andrée, CFICE Principal Investigator We recently had an extraordinary opportunity to discuss what is happening on food policy with European experts and organizations, as well as colleagues from around the world, in events in Brussels (29-30 May), Budapest (30 May-1 June) and Brighton (June 4-5).... More
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Co-op placements and internships, some unpaid, have long been the only way for many university students to put what they’re learning in classrooms into practice. These opportunities provide students with the chance to do a sort of taste-test of their chosen career path before graduation.... More
Thursday, June 21, 2018
On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 CFICE celebrated the launch of a new national network and community of practice called ‘Community-Campus Engage Canada’. As part of this launch, CFICE convened a panel and webinar titled Co-Creating the Future of Community-Campus Engagement in Canada. Moderated by Peter Andree, the webinar had presenters thinking... More
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