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WEBINAR: Hear my voice: Including community voices at post-secondary institutions
November 22, 2018 at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
| Location: | Online - Register to join! |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Nicole Bedford |
| Contact Email: | cfice@carleton.ca |
For a long time now, academia has been seen as one of society’s most important and valued producers of knowledge, and their research has played a significant role in much of the country’s policy and advocacy work. This culture of valuing academic voices over those of community and front-line workers is pervasive, and, in the case of community-campus engagement (CCE), can be detrimental to successfully and accurately addressing pressing community issues.
This is why CFICE strives to pursue a community-first ethos. For us, being ‘community first’ means engaging and involving community partners in all aspects of CCE work. It also means advocating for and supporting their involvement in our post-secondary institutions beyond their participation in specific courses or CCE projects.
On November 22, 2018 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST, join us for Hear my voice: Including community voices at post-secondary institutions.
In this webinar, presenters will share some of their experiences and strategies for bringing community voices more fully into the post-secondary sphere. You’ll hear from community partners who are advocating from the outside for their place at the academic table, and you’ll engage with faculty and administrators who are also doing their part to make space for the important contributions of community members within their institutions.
You’ll leave with a better understanding of the power dynamics impeding community participation at post-secondary institutions, and some clear strategies for how you can start to drive change towards community inclusion at your institution.
Level: Beginner – Attendees do not need any prior experience or knowledge of community-campus engagement.
Topics to be Covered:
- How Abbey Gardens has advocated for community voices at Trent University
- How, as a faculty member, Peter has advocated for community voices at Carleton University
- How the Harris Centre at Memorial University works to connect the Newfoundland and Labrador communities with the people and resources at Memorial University
- Discussion
- Q&A
Length: 1 hour
Attendance is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot today!
Presenters
Bios to be added soon!
Heather Reid works as the Operations Director of Abbey Gardens, a not-for profit charity providing economic and recreational opportunities for Haliburton County. Heather has a background in Recreation Management, Outdoor Education, Small Business, and Community-Based Research. She gained experience brokering projects between the university and community in Nova Scotia at Acadia University. Upon moving to Haliburton, she was the program coordinator and then director at the U-Links Centre for Community Based Research. In 2013 Heather took on the role of Operations Director at Abbey Gardens and continues to foster relationships with the university through her current position.
Peter Andrée is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on international and Canadian environmental politics, the political economy of agri-food systems, and community-based responses to the challenges of food security and agricultural sustainability. He is co-editor of “Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food,” to be published by University of Toronto Press in March 2014. He is also author of “Genetically Modified Diplomacy,” on the global politics of regulating genetically-modified crops and foods, published by University of British Columbia Press.
Amy Jones is the knowledge mobilization coordinator with the Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Amy helps make research, teaching and public engagement at Memorial relevant to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador through creating connections and facilitating effective partnerships. Amy delivers the Thriving Regions Partnership Process, which engages communities and provides funding and supports to faculty, staff and students to build meaningful research partnerships for thriving social and economic regions.
Moderator: Dr. Michelle Nilson is an associate professor with the Faculty of Education at SFU, where she teaches in the Educational Leadership programs. Her research and scholarship is inspired by questions concerning the nexus between postsecondary institutions, their environment, and the social, physical, and political. Her current work is a critical examination of student financial aid and teacher education policies and their implications for access, equity, and postsecondary student participation. Her research draws on her previous experience as an administrator of several large National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation grants that fostered opportunities for building networks and communication between various stakeholder groups. Her early days were spent in Detroit, Michigan, where she taught high school mathematics and middle school science.