Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute: Keynote with Professor Timothy K. Eatman

The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) invites you to attend the Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute. The Institute is an annual event that brings CEL instructors together for sharing and learning alongside a plenary speaker and various panels. The theme of this year’s event is "Advancing Anti-Oppressive Community-Engaged Learning." 

Join us for Professor Timothy K. Eatman's keynote address, No More Smoke and Mirrors: Publicly Engaged Scholarship in 21st Century Academe – Beware the Shrinking Imagination. 

Community-engaged learning (CEL) can serve a powerful role through academe in navigating the most pressing issues of our time. It can push us to be more thoughtful about knowledge creation and its sundry sources. It challenges us to acknowledge community based and Indigenous expertise in ways that do not typically register in higher education. Evidence suggests that community-engagement is a high impact practice, when conducted in a constructively critical manner, makes the education experience better and more robust, for faculty as well as students. Yet, academe has some work to do in order to achieve these aims. Pivoting on the principles of publicly engaged scholarship, full participation and the work of imagining as frameworks for social amelioration, Dr. Tim Eatman challenges attendees to reconcile weaknesses within traditional approaches, within a liberal arts context, and to activate community-engagement with a sense of prophetic imagination. 

Professor Eatman, an educational sociologist and publicly engaged scholar, serves as the Inaugural Dean of the Honors Living - Learning Community and Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark.

All instructors, staff, students, community partners and the public are welcome to join the virtual event. This event will be recorded.

Video, microphones and chat will be disabled for this event. Only speakers and hosts will be visible.