{"id":22317,"date":"2022-04-19T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=22317"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:42","slug":"a-successful-first-year-for-the-new-minor-in-community-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2022\/a-successful-first-year-for-the-new-minor-in-community-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"A successful first year for the new minor in Community Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        A successful first year for the new minor in Community Engagement\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton\u2019s new Minor in Community Engagement got off to a great start when the second-year foundations course (SOCI\/ANTH 2180) partnered with Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability (CAFES) in Fall 2021. Student projects focused on the City\u2019s development of the 15-minute neighbourhood concept. You can see the results of their efforts <a href=\"https:\/\/cafesottawa.ca\/2021-15-minute-neighbourhood-community-engagement-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, as well as an article about the project in the Sandy Hill community newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.imagesandyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022-April-May-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Image<\/a>, on page 11. Instructor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/deborah-conners\/\">Dr. Deborah Conners<\/a> is planning a second project with CAFES for Fall 2022, which will focus on increasing diversity in community association membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some images from their project are included below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2022\/04\/SOCI-2180-2-400x307-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2022\/04\/SOCI-2180-2-400x307-1.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2022\/04\/SOCI-2180-2-400x307-1-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2022\/04\/SOCI-2180-400x266-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2022\/04\/SOCI-2180-400x266-1.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2022\/04\/SOCI-2180-400x266-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton\u2019s new Minor in Community Engagement got off to a great start when the second-year foundations course (SOCI\/ANTH 2180) partnered with Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability (CAFES) in Fall 2021. Student projects focused on the City\u2019s development of the 15-minute neighbourhood concept. You can see the results of their efforts here, as well as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}