2025 CEL Faculty Institute In-Person Day: What’s Next for CEL? Charting the Course for Transformative Change

Presented by the Centre for Community Partnerships

The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) invites you to attend the 2025 Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute, What’s Next for Community-Engaged Learning? Charting the Course for Transformative Change.

The CEL Faculty Institute is an annual event that brings together CEL instructors from across the University of Toronto to share and learn from each other about effective strategies for CEL teaching, informed by the latest research and on-the-ground experience.The two-part event will take place over two days, the first featuring a virtual plenary panel and the second, an in-person day (listed below) at the University of Toronto St. George Campus. This year’s Institute will offer an opportunity to reflect on 20 years of CEL at U of T, and to further our collective critical thinking about the future of CEL.

This full-day gathering will take place at Hart House on St. George Campus. The day will begin with a community thought leaders’ plenary featuring some of our longest standing and dedicated community partners in CEL; concurrent panels; lunch; and opportunities to contribute to a storytelling initiative recognizing CEL work that has been done, and the work that continues, to catalyze transformative change. All University of Toronto instructors are invited to attend the in-person event.

The deadline to register for the in-person event is Friday, April 18, 2025.

If you are an instructor or lecturer, please reach out to Rebs Lee at rebs.lee@utoronto.ca to inquire about registering.

Please note that staff who support CEL and community-partnered EL will receive invitations through their units for this in-person day.