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Community Engagement Fellows- Learning Together
Helping people learn together across organizational boundaries is a challenge, and one of the most important things we can do to spark creative community solutions and transcend social divisions. To enhance your skills in this realm, please join in one or more Learning Together training sessions on Wednesday, November 18th and Thursday, November 19th. For a description of each training, please visit https://www.cefellows.org/learning-together-trainings and/or view them below. Dr. Travis Tennessen of the Center for Community Learning at Western Washington University will facilitate the sessions. He serves as the lead convener of Community Engagement Fellows (www.cefellows.org) - a community of practice focused on building learning partnerships across organizations. To sign up, please complete this simple Google Form: Sign-up for Learning Together Trainings The sessions will be conducted via Zoom. Those who sign up will receive calendar invitations and email reminders. Learning Together training sessions are free and open to all. We encourage you to forward this invitation to friends and colleagues who may be interested. Please send questions...
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Measuring Mutual Benefit and Reciprocity in Community Engagement and Public Service Activities
Free for members and Campus Compact national service members $25 per webinar for non-members Campus Compact’s 2020-2021 national webinar series takes the great and varied work happening on the ground around the country and brings it straight to your desk. Topics touch on issues of relevance to faculty, staff, students, and their partners in education and community building. Be sure to tune in each month for information, tools, and resources to support and inspire you. Register Description Mutual benefit and reciprocity are arguably the defining characteristics/principles of the Carnegie Foundation's definition for community engagement partnerships. In this session, we examine how these two characteristics/principles are often conflated as synonyms by researchers, administrators, and practitioners (Dostilio, et al, 2012; Janke, 2018), and offer definitions and measures that demonstrate their distinctiveness. We will share an emerging research program that is aimed at creating greater conceptual clarity and operationalization of these two terms in how we measure and track community engagement activities and...
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