Archives: MITACS

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

DISCUSSION PAPER: CCE Policy and Funding: The Challenge Ahead

Community-Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) is an emerging national network and community of practice focused on strengthening Canadian communities by increasing the capacity, infrastructure and impact of equitable community-campus partnerships of all types, including student experiential learning, community-engaged research, and social innovation.... More

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Growing Accessible Experiential Learning and Community-Campus Engagement in Canada

by Kawsar Mohamed, CFICE CCEC Administrative Research Assistant As a student with a disability, I am not surprised about the recent findings of Statistics Canada, which demonstrate that unemployment rates among people with disabilities are at least twice the national and provincial levels of all age groups. I was therefore ecstatic when I... 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, June 13, 2018

PODCAST & STORY: When Governments are ‘Community-First’

Story and podcast by Nicole Bedford, CFICE Project Manager and Communications Coordinator Sometimes it’s hard to trace the direct impact that government programs have on our communities. This is partly because on-the-ground projects leading to community change often receive funding from many sources, including private donors, industry partners,... More

Thursday, December 12, 2013

MITACS and SSHRC Joint Initiative to Support Graduate Students

Mitacs and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council are pleased to announce a joint initiative to create stronger connections between Canadian companies and social sciences and humanities graduate students. Learn... More

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