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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

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

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

A conversation about disability in the workplace

Conversations about disability in the workplace are long overdue. In this lively podcast, CFICE team members Kristina Reed, Kawsar Mohamed, and Nicole Bedford have a frank conversation about the challenges and rewards of being open to sharing, listening, and working together to make workplaces more accessible to all. Access a PDF version of the... More

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

New CCEC Webinar Series: Building the Community-Campus Engagement Movement in Canada in 2019

Community-Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) presents a new webinar series: Building the Community-Campus Engagement Movement in Canada in 2019 -- An interactive Community Campus Engagement (CCE) Webinar Series offering participants community-campus and student engagement skills, resources and opportunities to connect and grow our national network. The... More

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Transformations through ‘Community-First’ Engagement – New Engaged Scholar Journal Special Issue!

What happens when community-campus partnerships involving diverse communities, community-based organizations, postsecondary institutions, researchers, students, and foundations seek to put communities first in their engagement practices? This is the question that is addressed through a range of perspectives in this issue of Engaged Scholar... More

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

New Year’s Resolution: Be More Community-First

by Kate Higginson, CFICE Communications Research Assistant With the holidays over and a new calendar started, most of us spend January focusing on getting back into a routine. Many of you may have come up with a traditional New Year’s resolution, like eating more veggies or cutting down on waste- and these are great... More

Friday, December 7, 2018

Video: Navigating community-campus research partnerships: Introducing a tool to help the process

On Thursday, December 7, 2018 CFICE presented Navigating community-campus research partnerships: Introducing a tool to help the process. In this webinar, presenters provided an overview of a self assessment tool, designed specifically for community organizations, that provides information and resources about community-based research with academic... More

Friday, November 30, 2018

From Parliament Hill to Your Desk: Important Initiatives Making Research and CCE Accessible

by Kate Higginson, CFICE Communications Research Assistant The last time your community-campus engagement (CCE) project held a meeting, was there a push button on the meeting room door so a participant in a wheelchair could access the room? What about a sign language interpreter, or someone available to take notes for the member with... More

Friday, November 16, 2018

So you want to use CCE research for your thesis?

by Kristina Reed, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Conducting a thesis is hard work and adding in a community-campus engagement (CCE) component can make it even more difficult. But the rewards of building deep relationships in your community, and knowing that your work will be relevant, and hopefully, useful, to the community, can far... More

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

PODCAST & STORY: When Post-Secondary Institutions are ‘Community-First’

Story by Nicole Bedford, CFICE Project Manager and Communications Coordinator and podcast by Kate Higginson, CFICE Communications Research Assistant When it comes to making community-campus engagement (CCE) more equitable, a small policy change by a college or university can make a huge difference. This was the experience of the Community First:... More

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Infographic & Guide: The Process of Successful Community-Campus Engagement

​In partnership with CFICE, U-Links has developed a manual and the purpose of this document (Click here for the full CFICE - Campus Community Manual PDF or access the FRENCH version here) is to guide community organization staff as they begin to create research-oriented relationships with university faculty. The goal of these relationships... More

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Best Practices for Community-Campus Engagement

by Aimee Coueslan, Engagement Liaison, Rural Development Institute, Brandon University This article was first posted by Aimee Coueslan on Medium.com and is being shared with her permission on the CFICE website. In their core strategic planning, universities across Canada are now identifying community engagement as a core function of research,... More

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