Available CoPs
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| Civic Life in Academia: Creating Educational Pathways in Civic Engagement for Students on College Campuses | This CoP will focus on the challenges on achievements that come from designing, hosting, and managing majors or minors in civic life on your respective campus. Co-facilitator: Yetunde Odugbesan | |
| Collaboration for Better Practice: Creating Synergy Across all Sectors to Better Impact the Field | This CoP will focus on building collaborative relationships with industry, government and academia to achieve "glocal" sustainable development goals. Co-facilitator: Cory Schutter | |
| Transformative Discourse Across Differences: Designing Intentional Structured Learning Opportunities for Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement | In this community of practice, members will engage with a series of activities where they will practice integrating intentional structured learning opportunities into their existing practices. We will also provide handouts and case studies to guide members through the transformative process. Finally, we will provide a resource library and collect resources from members to grow our impact on our respective institutions. Co-facilitators: Jason Leggett and Helen-Margaret Nasser | |
| Using Community Engagement to Fight Misinformation | This community of practice will seek to examine the ways in which community engagement can be leveraged on college campuses to prevent the spread of misinformation within student communities. We will aim to provide participants with a new framework and learning outcomes to try out at their own institutions. Co-facilitators: Ryan Flynn & Elora Agsten |
Communities of Practice are open to active Campus Compact members and are a benefit of Campus Compact membership. If you have a question about your member status, please contact Natalie at nfurlett@compact.org.
Application deadline: July 17
Application details:
- There is no fee to participate.
- Participants commit to attend all scheduled virtual meetings for the CoP.
- Each CoP will meet regularly for six sessions. The specific meeting dates and times for each CoP can be found in the session description.
- Meetings will take place online via Zoom using a webcam. Participants will need access to high speed internet and a webcam and be able to use Zoom.
- CoP participants will be selected with the intention of creating a diverse learning community that includes multiple perspectives and experiences, institutions, roles, and approaches to community engagement.
- All CoPs embrace and embody the following equity-based principles that:
- (a) everyone has knowledge to share,
- (b) everyone has learning to do, and
- (c) participants bring many identities and ways of knowing and that such diverse expressions should be encouraged and incorporated into CoP activities.
Contact Shaquan McDowell at smcdowell@compact.org with any questions about the Communities of Practice.
Communities of Practice are open to active Campus Compact members and are a benefit of Campus Compact membership. If you have a question about your member status, please contact Natalie at nfurlett@compact.org.
Application deadline: July 17