2025 Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute Virtual Plenary Panel – What’s Next for Community-Engaged Learning? 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 (listed below) and the second, an in-person day 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.

For our virtual plenary panel, we will welcome five scholars with decades of experience in the practice of, and scholarship about, CEL who have been keynote speakers at past CCP Faculty Institutes since our first Institute in 2008. Together our panelists will offer their reflections and insights at this critical juncture for CEL, and lead us in thinking about the past, present and future of CEL pedagogy. All instructors, staff, librarians, students, community partners and the general public are welcome to join the virtual plenary panel on Zoom.

Featuring:
– Patti H. Clayton, Ph.D., Independent Consultant, PHC Ventures, Practitioner-Scholar-In-Residence, North Carolina Campus Engagement (NCCE), Senior Scholar, Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)
– Tim K. Eatman, Ph.D., Inaugural Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community, Professor Department of Urban Education, Faculty Affiliate Department of Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences-Newark, Center for Security, Race and Rights, School of Law, Rutgers University-Newark
– Tania D. Mitchell, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Community Engagement, Professor in Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education, University of Maryland
– Dan Sarofian-Butin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Education and Community Studies, School of Education & Social Policy, Merrimack College
– Randy Stoecker, Ph.D., Independent Community Development and Knowledge Mobilization Consultant, fomer Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison