Archives: Aligning Institutions

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

UAKN presents at AICI’s Canadian Community-Campus Engagement Roundtable Event

In the recent release of its December newsletter, the Urban Aboriginal Network shared the following news about its collaboration with CFICE's Aligning Institutions for Community Impacts working group: "The UAKN Secretariat presented at the Canadian Community Campus Engagement (CCCE) Roundtable meeting on October 26th, 2017. The strategic goals of... More

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

10 Resources for building a community-engaged curriculum

by Ash Coutu, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Does the thought of including community engagement in your courses sound intimidating? Don't fret. There's no need to reinvent the wheel when there's already a wealth of resources out there waiting to be used! Our team at CFICE has combed through the internet and put together a... More

Friday, March 3, 2017

Creating a Community First Classification System for CCE

by Katalin Koller, Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Working Group Research Associate At the beginning of Phase II of CFICE, the newly formed Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Working Group (AICI-WG) was tasked with investigating the co-creation of a community-first classification system for community-campus engagement (CCE) in... More

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

2017 Action Planning for Canada’s National Community-Campus Engagement Movement

by Maeve Lydon, CFICE Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Community Co-Lead  The year 2017 promises to be an exciting year for connecting efforts and consolidating a long-term vision and action plan for the national community-campus engagement (CCE) movement in Canada. To that end, Community First Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE)... More

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Connecting CFICE and CUEXPO2017 Vancouver – Growing the Common Good in Canada –

by Maeve Lydon, CFICE Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Community Co-Lead  Our Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) policy and action work over the next three years (2016-2019) will focus on strengthening both Canadian communities and the national community-campus engagement (CCE) movement in Canada. We continue to... More

Friday, August 5, 2016

Indigenous Research Ethics

by Katalin Eve Koller, PhD Candidate & CFICE Aligning Institutions for Community Impact RA Indigenous Peoples share a historical memory and experience with academic research fraught with destructive power relations, structural violence, and imperial politics. Many academic disciplines contributed to the expansion of European imperialism across... More

Friday, June 17, 2016

AICI Welcomes Maeve Lydon as Community Co-lead

“Research doesn’t just belong to the university.” – Maeve Lydon, May 31st The Aligning Institutions for Community Impact (AICI) Working Group is pleased to welcome Maeve Lydon as its Community Co-lead. Located in Victoria, BC, Maeve brings a wealth of experience from her recent work with Community-Based Research Canada (CBRC) and her... More

Friday, May 6, 2016

Embedding Public Engagement in Higher Education in the United Kingdom

By Katalin Eve Koller, Ph.D. Candidate, and CFICE Aligning Institutions RA Community-Based Research Canada recently hosted a webinar featuring Sophie Duncan, Deputy Director of the United Kingdom National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE-UK). Sophie’s talk proved of great interest to the work of the CFICE Aligning Institutions... More

Monday, March 14, 2016

We want to hear from YOU!

Have your say. Take our survey! Have you heard? CFICE is making some exciting new changes! As was proposed in our initial SSHRC application, CFICE is getting ready to transition to Phase II of our work. In order to transition smoothly, we want to hear from YOU regarding how you might want to be... More

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