Archives: CCE

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Community Engagement Event a Success!

On March 27, 2019, the Carleton Community Engaged Pedagogy group (with support from CFICE and others) held their 5th annual Carleton U Community Connections networking event meant to help community members, faculty, staff and students network for future community-campus engagement opportunities. The event was a big success, bringing together 140... More

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Department of Gender & Women’s Studies – Tenure-Track Position – Apply by May 5, 2019

Trent University invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to start July 1, 2019, or January 1, 2020, subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate must possess a PhD in an area of feminist scholarship, have an active research program with... More

Friday, April 5, 2019

Join the CCEC Steering Committee — Apply by April 22, 2019

Call for Applications - Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) Steering Committee The mission of Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) is to contribute to thriving, just, and sustainable societies by growing connections, capacity, and infrastructure for community-driven collaboration with post-secondary institutions across Canada. CCEC emerges... More

Friday, March 29, 2019

CFICE co-lead places article in The Chronicle Journal

Monday March 25th's copy of The Chronicle Journal, a newspaper published out of Thunder Bay, featured a familiar face: That of CFICE Researcher Charles Levkoe! On the heels of the "Understanding our Food Systems" gathering held in January 2019, Charles and colleague Jessica McLaughlin (co-ordinator of the Indigenous Food Circle), penned this... More

Friday, March 29, 2019

Video: Community-Campus Partnerships for Social Infrastructure Webinar and Resources

On March 21, 2019, CFICE and Community-Campus Engage Canada, with the support of Simon Fraser University, University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation (UWCRC), McConnell Foundation, and the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, presented Community-Campus Partnerships for Social... More

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Equity Services – An Important Carleton Resource for All (including CCE partnerships!)

By Alexandra Zannis, CFICE Volunteer I often view Carleton University as being an island. Contained within the school borders is a city within a city, complete with its own political organization, economy, and culture. Given that it is surrounded by rivers and is slightly removed from Ottawa’s core, Carleton University also physically embodies... More

Friday, March 15, 2019

Job Opportunity: Manager, Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) — Apply by March 31, 2019

Community Campus Engage Canada’s mission is to contribute to thriving, just and sustainable societies by growing connections, capacity and infrastructure for community-driven collaboration with post-secondary institutions across Canada. CCEC emerges from a seven-year SSHRC-funded pan-Canadian participatory action research project that... More

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

FREE Online Course: Towards Co-operative Commonwealth

Today, political, economic, social and ecological crises are deepening, putting life at risk on a global level. Many of us are working toward solutions, that are socially just and ecologically sound. Advocacy for a new economics is growing. But as calls for systems change grow we often work in silos, unaware of each other’s... More

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Research can be an inaccessible term, and here’s why

by Kate Higginson, CFICE Communications Research Assistant What does someone do after being forcibly institutionalized for 18 years because they were labelled as having an intellectual disability? In the case of Peter Park, he chose to become an advocate for other people with disabilities to make sure this inhumane treatment wouldn’t happen to... More

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Call for Chapters: Preparing Students for CCE – Proposals due: March 16, 2019

Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: March 16, 2019 Full Chapters Due: July 14, 2019 Submission Date: November 6, 2019 Community-engaged scholarship is an equitable and democratic approach to scholarship that seeks to identify and solve community-based problems. Community-engaged scholars aim to serve the public good by developing and... More

Friday, February 15, 2019

S’engager envers les collectivités

Des professeurs et des représentants de syndicats et de groupes communautaires ont partagé leurs réflexions sur la mission sociale des universités. Par Claude Gauvreau Valoriser davantage la mission sociale des universités et lui donner plus de visibilité, partir des besoins des citoyens afin de développer des projets de recherche et de... More

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Intersectionality as a modus operandi for violence against women work

In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Kristina Reed, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. Bonnie Brayton has been the National Executive Director of the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN) since 2007 when she... More

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