Name
Leading from the Center: Community Engagement Professionals building frameworks for collective impact
Date & Time
Monday, March 31, 2025, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Location Name
Imperial Ballroom
Focus Area
Infrastructure and support for community engagement
Session Type
Roundtable
Description

Community engagement professionals can play important roles in facilitating faculty and student engagement with local community partners while holding longer-term connections and threads of impact. The facilitator will share how a centralized office for curricular and co-curricular engagement at a rural residential college is working to connect individual academic civic engagement course objectives and disciplines with long-term community partnerships. This roundtable will engage in critical questions for community-engagement professionals working with faculty on course design and community connection: How can we avoid all-or-nothing approaches? What structures can we build for cumulative impact over time? What makes it possible for community-engagement practitioners to advance the ethical frameworks of mutual benefit and co-creation when faculty make final decisions in course design?