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Thursday, July 26, 2018

The Important Role of Project Administrators in CCE

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Working with an institution as large as a university can be a daunting, challenging task filled with moving parts and bureaucratic hoops to jump through. For a community organization, tackling the challenges that come with a partnership with a post-secondary institution can be... More

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

A Budding Community-Campus Engagement Hub: The Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation

by Leigha McCarroll,  Research Assistant, Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Ottawa) Working Group Take a stroll through the echoing hallways of St. Paul University to find a hidden treasure: the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop – a gorgeous co-working space and innovation hub nestled in Old Ottawa East. It serves as a workspace... More

Thursday, July 19, 2018

10 ways to create successful community-campus engagement partnerships

by Alexandra Zannis, CFICE Communications Volunteer Community-campus engagement (CCE) projects are meaningful projects that can have remarkable impacts on our communities, even if they can be daunting at first. Don’t be scared! If you’ve found yourself gearing up to start a CCE partnership and are ready to make lasting change, check out our 10... More

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Academic Article: Participatory planning in a low-income neighbourhood in Ontario, Canada: building capacity and collaborative interactions for influence

Published on July 13, 2018 in the Oxford Academic Community Development Journal, this article, Participatory Planning in a Low-Income Neighbourhood in Ontario, Canada, provides an overview of a community-led participatory planning process that sought to involve citizens who are often marginalized within planning processes. The research took place... More

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Call for Submissions: Reaching Across Borders, Building a Better World — Apply by August 17, 2018

Academics Without Borders, in partnership with Academica Group, invites submissions for a unique new conference, Reaching Across Borders, Building a Better World: The impact of Canada’s colleges and universities on global development. To be held on November 5-7, 2018 in Montreal, the conference is very proud to have the support of Canada’s... More

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

A Greater View of the Landscape: Co-Creating a Brokering Tool for Community-Campus Engagement

by Eileen O'Connor, Academic Co-lead, and Leigha McCarroll, Research Assistant, of the CCE Brokering (Ottawa) Working Group Ottawa is home to a rich cast of academics and community organizations hoping to make the city a little more environmentally friendly. But with countless government departments, 6 post secondary institutions in the... More

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Carleton Hosts Launch of Community-Campus Engage Canada

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

Achieving Positive Community Change through Reciprocal CSL Partnerships

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

Expectations and timelines when working with a post-secondary institution

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

CFICE/FLEdGE Researchers Talk Food Policy in Europe

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

Ontario Government Work-Integrated Learning Mandate: What does this mean for Faculty, Community, and Students?

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

Friday, June 22, 2018

Developing a Toolkit for Community-Based Research

by Tara McWhinney, Research Assistant, CBO Tools Working Group In Phase 1 of the CFICE project a series of community campus engagement projects looked at how to improve community impacts through collaborative research projects. The need for a toolkit to help guide community organizations on the process of partnering with academics for research... More

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