Community Engagement and Partnerships Working Group

The Community Engagement and Partnerships Working Group will assess and reimagine how to ensure that the university builds and sustains meaningful, credible and mutually beneficial relationships with communities and external partners. It will make recommendations that would promote a values-based, intentional, proactive and enabling approach to partnership and generate recognition for Carleton as a partner of choice and distinction for a broad range of collaborators locally, regionally, nationally and globally.

Areas of Focus

• Institutional enablers and constraints
• Trust-building and credibility
• Community and industry partnerships
• Government and multilateral engagement
• Long-term risks and sustainability
• Values-based partnership models

The group will recommend directions that:

• Strengthen Carleton’s partnership ecosystem
• Promote inclusive and credible engagement
• Position Carleton as a partner of choice locally and globally
• Reinforce existing strengths and institutional trust

Membership

Co-Chairs 

• Chantal Trudel, Director; Associate Professor, Industrial Design (Co-Chair Academic)  
• Mara Brown, Director, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (Co-Chair Administrative)  
  

Members 

• Lacey Thompson, Manager of Fitness and Wellness Programs, Athletics
• Alexandra Arraiz Matute, Assistant Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies  
• Ethan Hermer, Professional Programs Officer, Faculty of Science  
• Claire McMenemy, PhD Student, Social Work  
• Ela St. Michael, MDes Student, Industrial Design  
• Rodney Nelson, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business  
• Laura Pickell, Associate Professor, Life Sciences  
• Allan Thompson, Co-Director, Journalism and Communications