Carleton’s Committee on Community Engaged Pedagogy, with the support of the EDC and the Discovery Centre, will be hosting a Mini-Conference on Community Engagement in Research and Teaching on Thursday, Dec. 15.

This mini-conference will bring together the instructors and staff at Carleton involved in community-engaged research and teaching to share experiences and learn from one another. Collectively, we hope to better understand the modalities of community engagement in teaching and research at Carleton, including the benefits and challenges of these approaches, and to identify best practices around issues such as timelines, grading community-based projects, building relationships with external partners, managing risk and liability, turning community needs into researchable questions, and ethics reviews.

We’ll also be sharing some exciting news about Carleton Connects - a portal that will be launched in the new year that will allow external organizations and community-engaged scholars and units at Carleton to establish relationships with one another.

The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m., followed by a networking lunch from 12-1 p.m. Stay tuned for more details, including the complete agenda.