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TILT support for
Community Engaged Learning at CSU
TILT’s Community Engaged Learning programs serve:
- Faculty and instructors who are developing and teaching CEL/ SL (Service Learning) courses
- Community partner organizations who host and co-create CEL and SL opportunities
- CSU students
For Faculty & Staff
Connect with TILT for a one-to-one consultation or other course development resources. Contact Danyel Addes, Program Coordinator for Community Engaged Learning.
Join our CSU mailing list to get notifications of CEL/SL opportunities and events for academic and campus-based partners.
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Community Engaged Learning / Service Learning Mini-Grant Funding
The Community Engaged Learning program in The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) offers Community Engaged Learning (CEL) / Service Learning (SL) Mini-Grant Funding. Calls for proposals are posted here and shared on the CSU email list when they become available. These grants, typically ranging from $500 to $1,000, are available to fund the development of new CEL courses or initiatives, or the improvement of existing ones.
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Goal: to create an intentional, semi-structured, space for faculty and instructors at CSU to talk about their Community Engaged Learning / Service-Learning courses, projects, or practices. Regular meetings and touchpoints will allow participants to learn from each other, connect and find support, share resources, examples, and ideas, and improve our ability to create rich learning experiences for students while supporting community priorities or meeting community requests.
Who is this for?
This COP is intended for those running or developing CEL/SL projects. We will ground our discussions and explorations in the specifics of current work and pull in articles, resources or examples based on participant interests and questions.
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The Provost's Council for Engagement
The Provost’s Council for Engagement advances the practice and recognition of our integration of academic scholarship and community engagement. As a faculty-driven initiative, established in 2016, the Provost’s Council advances the scholarship of engagement, including engaged teaching, engaged research and engagement with communities across Colorado and the world.
In 2019, the Council introduced a “Continuum of Engaged Scholarship” framework to identify the breadth of engaged research, teaching and service activities moving from outreach to co-creation, while offering a model to individual faculty and departments for documenting progress, demonstrating impact and evaluating performance. The Continuum presents the What, Why, and How of Engagement, conducted across the university’s mission areas.
For questions and additional information contact:
Danyel Addes
Program Coordinator of Community Engaged Learning
For Community Partners
Hear more about our approach to community partnerships, ways to connect with faculty and students, and support for co-teaching and project development. Contact Danyel Addes, Program Coordinator for Community Engaged Learning.
Join our Community Partner mailing list to get notifications of opportunities and events for community partners, including ways to connect with courses, professors, student leadership programs.
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For Students
FORGING A JUST FUTURE
Hilton Denver City Center
APRIL 8-10
Applications Closed
Students interested in Civic & Community Engagement, Higher Education, and Leadership are invited to apply for a Fully Funded conference that is being provided by SLiCE and TILT! The deadline to apply is February 29th!
What you might need to know:
Campus Compact, a national organization promoting and supporting civic and community engagement in higher education, is holding their national conference in Denver this year, April 7th through 10th.
This is a fantastic opportunity for CSU students to see and learn about innovative and impactful work happening across the country and in Colorado.
About:
Compact24 is a national conference focused on the role of higher education in building healthy communities and a just and equal democracy. Topics include civic learning and democratic engagement, community engagement, and community-based research.
Why attend as a student?
It is a great opportunity to learn about courses that include real-world experience and support community projects, learn about graduate programs and degrees that include community-based work, gather ideas and examples to bring back to CSU, and do some networking and professional development.
Attending conferences is a great way to learn about emerging career opportunities, to get familiar with professional conference settings, and to learn about research opportunities in areas that interest you. See the Conference Schedule Here
What is it? What is Included?
The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT), Student Leadership, Involvement, and Community Engagement (SLiCE) Office, and the President’s Leadership Program (PLP) are collaborating to offer funds for a small number (8) of students to attend the Compact24 conference. All interested undergraduate or graduate students are welcome to apply.
We encourage undergraduate students involved in a Community Engaged Learning or Service Learning course, project, or community engagement program to apply, but this is not required.
Funding covers student registration fees. Meals and transportation from CSU’s Fort Collins Campus will be provided on the three days of the conference, April 8th – 10th.
For Students
- Are you looking for Community Engaged Learning, Service Learning, or research opportunities?
- Do you have a class or graduation requirement that includes an in-depth community engagement component and you are trying to find the right organization or group to work with?
- Are you curious how Community Engaged Learning is different from volunteering or community service?
- Are you doing Community Engaged Learning (receiving academic credit for community-based work) and could use some support, or guidance?
- Are you creating a research poster or presentation about a Community Engaged Learning project? Could you use some examples, guidance or feedback?
Community Engagement work needs many minds to be done well. The best way to get good at it is to talk it over with others. Meet with our Program Coordinator for Community Engaged Learning to discuss a project, ask questions, figure out next steps, or connect with opportunities.
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More Community Engaged Learning at CSU
Project & Course List
Help us build a list of Community Engaged / Service Learning projects and courses! This will make it possible for :
- People to see examples of Community Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship projects at CSU and look for projects of interest
- Instructors and community groups who are looking for Community Engaged Learning partnerships to find each other and connect directly
Let us know about your Community Engaged Learning or Service Learning work. You can indicate if you are actively looking for partners or collaborators and if or when you are open to inquiries. Please submit information about your project even if you are not currently looking for partners as it helps us build an inventory of these efforts across campus and Northern Colorado.
The CSU STEM Center is a university-wide organization that supports and collaborates with faculty and staff who focus on STEM research and education. They serve as an organizing point for small and large-scale projects on campus and connect and support CSU’s science, engineering, mathematics, and technology engagement and education programs across CSU and in the community.
The STEM Education & Engagement Community at CSU is made up of faculty and staff members of all ranks and areas of expertise who support the STEM Center’s mission of connecting and supporting CSU’s science, engineering, mathematics, and technology programs for STEM education research, programming, and activities across CSU and in the community. Members choose to join the STEM Community Directory because of their interest in and willingness to collaborate on STEM outreach, research and education.
The Office of Engagement and Extension: Become an Agent of Change
Partner with Colorado State University.
CSU’s Office of Engagement and Extension delivers on its land-grant mission by making the university’s educational programs, services and resources accessible to all, enabling individuals to act as agents of change and together build thriving communities.
Award Winning CSU Programs
The Middle School Outreach Ensembles (MSOE)
The Middle School Outreach Ensembles (MSOE) program is an internationally recognized, community-based music outreach program sponsored by CSU that provides music instruction to local middle school students. The program embodies CSU’s land-grant mission, providing equal opportunity and equal access to its music programming through loaned instruments and expert music lessons at an extremely low cost.
Campus Connections Theraputic Youth Mentoring Program
Campus Connections Therapeutic Youth Mentoring program is a high-impact service learning course (3 credits) at Colorado State University and a program serving local youth. Campus Connections was developed in 2009 in response to a community request for additional services for youth experiencing difficulties. CC is an innovative core service for youth exposed to adversities providing mentoring in a unique structure. This includes mentor mentees pairs being part of a mentor family (four pairs) with youth of similar ages, exposure to a college campus, academic support, dinner, pro-social activities, and integrated mental health services. Youth are referred from the juvenile system, schools, human services, and many other providers who recognize the tremendous benefits of therapeutic mentoring for youth.
