Community Engagement (CE)

“Make vital, ethical, and sustained contributions to social and

economic well-being by engaging communities in research,

learning, and debate about community issues of concern.”

Strategic Plan 2011- 2016

Community Engagement

Provide the “tweet” version of your CE activity.

Go to http://ce.educ.ubc.ca/ce-mapping/ or, on your

recipe card write:

• Name:

• Email:

• 140 character summary of CE activity.

• Interested in follow up? Y/N

• Interested in showcasing your CE work? Y/N

Community Engagement

Timeline

• Community Engagement included in the Faculty Strategic Plan, 2011-2016

• Discussion paper Community Engagement in the Faculty of Education presented to Faculty Meeting, November 2011

• Open meeting of Faculty and Staff, January, 2012

• Re-naming of EPLT to include Community Engagement (Professional Development and Community Engagement), September, 2012

• Formation of the Community Engagement Working Group, October, 2012 (4 meetings thus far)

Community Engagement

“Create a body with broad representation from the Faculty and community stakeholders to help set priorities for community engagement, broadly defined.”

Strategic Plan

Community Engagement Working Group

• Open invitation

• Participants– from all departments, units and school

Formalize the working group to the extent that all departments are represented

Include students

Include community stakeholders

Community Engagement

Tom Sork DNSOMarla Buchanan ECPSLinda Farr-Darling EDCPTracy Friedel EDCPCynthia Nicol EDCPPat O'Riley EDCPPeter Cole EDCPJolie Mayer-Smith EDCPMarina Milner-Bolotin EDCPGerald Fallon EDSTWendy Poole EDSTShauna Butterwick EDST

Hartej Gill EDSTMichelle Stack EDSTJo-ann Archibald EDSTDaniel Vokey EDSTWendy Frisby KINJoanne Naslund LIBRARYMark Edwards PDCERita Irwin TEOSydney Craig TEOAnne Scholefield TEOWendy Carr TEOJosee Lebel TEO

Community Engagement Working Group Participants

Community EngagementPriorities

1. Tell and celebrate the stories of our involvement with the world

2. Challenge and shape the university’s conversation about community engagement

3. Enable scholars and communities to engage each other

4. Connect scholars with research about CE and with each other

5. Support CE activity with infrastructure and resources

6. Develop principles for good practice

Community Engagement

“Record and celebrate the Faculty’s community engagement activities and communicate the value of this work, especially in terms of scholarship, to the broader public.”

Strategic Plan

Actions

• Creation of CE Website (ce.educ.ubc.ca)

• Map CE activities

Community Engagement

Mapping CE in the Faculty of Education

What community or organization?Who was involved?How did it happen?What were the goal(s), activities, and outcomes? When and where?Who benefited?What supports (e.g. funding, administrative)?

Are you interested in being interviewed?

Community EngagementMapping CE activities: Five ways

Tweet/index cards

Online survey or narrative

Interview

Showcase / video clip for web Post Article/Report

Community Engagement

Opportunity 1

Provide the “tweet” version of your CE activity.

• Name:

• Email:

• 140 character summary of CE activity.

• Interested in follow up? Y/N

• Interested in showcasing your CE work? Y/N

Community Engagement

Opportunity 2

Represent your CE activity more fully through

questionnaire or short narrative. Go to the CE website

and respond to some or all of the questions in the

questionnaire or write a short narrative which describes

your activity in greater depth and discusses the CE

issues of greatest import to you.

Community Engagement

Opportunity 3

Be interviewed to allow a CE researcher to explore with

you in still greater depth the nature of, and your thinking

about, your CE work.

Opportunity 4

Showcase your activity via multi-media on the CE,

Faculty, and/or University websites.

Community Engagement

Opportunity 5

In addition to the above we invite you to post one or more of your academic articles or community reports etc. (about the project /research or about community engaged research approaches etc.) on the CE website.

Send your article or report to ce.educ@ubc.ca.

Community Engagement

Request

1. Urge people to get their community engagement activity on record.

2. Identify community engagement work that you would like celebrated on the website.

3. Celebrate and communicate the value of community engagement work.

4. Join in this rich and evolving conversation!

Community Engagement

Community Engagement Website:

ce.educ.ubc.ca

Community Engagement email address:

ce.educ@ubc.ca