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Monday, February 13, 2017

5 Things You Should Know 杏吧原创 Tenure in Canada and at 杏吧原创

by Marie Jos茅e M. Tremblay, CFICE Volunteer If you are a community partner who participates in community-campus engagement (CCE) with a Canadian university, you may have heard of 鈥渢enure鈥� or 鈥渢enure-track鈥� professors. You may be wondering 鈥淲hat exactly is tenure? What does it do?鈥� These questions are important as the value of tenure... More

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Plain Language Podcast and Report: Community-Campus Engagement (CCE) Brokering, Partnership Tools, and Student Pathways to Engagement: An Environmental Scan

This plain language podcast provides a summary of Holly Stack-Cutler鈥檚 report聽titled Community-Campus Engagement (CCE) Brokering, Partnership Tools, and Student Pathways to Engagement: An Environmental Scan. This research聽was conducted聽in 2016, in partnership with the CCE Brokering, Student Pathways, and Partnership Tools working groups. The... More

Monday, February 6, 2017

Journal Article: Collaboration for Transformation: Community鈥� Campus Engagement for Just and Sustainable Food Systems

One of the top questions on CFICE researchers' minds over the past four years has been whether or not (and how)聽community-campus engagement can contribute to building social movements. In Phase I, each of the hubs explored this question in more or less detail. Well the Community Food Security hub now has an answer to... More

Friday, February 3, 2017

NWAC Releases Report Card on the National Inquiry into MMIWG

On January 5, 2017, the Native Women鈥檚 Association of Canada (NWAC) issued a press release announcing the release of their official Report Card on the activities of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Inquiry). Drafted to reflect the success of the Inquiry in meeting its directives and mandates as... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Call for Abstracts: 10th Education Research Symposium – Apply by February 24, 2017

The Oxford Education Research Symposium, which will take place March 20 - 21, 2017 in London, UK, is a forum for the presentation of papers and discourse by scholars who have a particular interest in the theory and practice of universal education. 聽Notations for the March 2017 conference: *聽Papers presented will be subsequently peer... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

CFICE’s Amanda Wilson Reflects on Evaluation Symposium Experience

by Amanda Wilson, Community Co-lead of the CCE Brokering (FS) Working Group --- This article was first posted on Food Secure Canada's Website January 26, 2017. Link to the full article here --- January 18-19, 2017 CFICE (Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement) held a two day Symposium in Ottawa to reflect on the... More

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Job Opportunity: Director, Centre for Community Partnerships – Apply by Feb. 14, 2017

The University of Toronto is seeking applications for the position of Director at their Centre for Community Partnerships. Reporting jointly to the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education (VP,IUE) and the Senior Director, Student Experience (SD), the incumbent will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of... More

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Podcast: Decolonizing Research and Relationships

The Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty has consistently held the space since 2006 for the generation of a body of knowledge within food systems discourse, that shines a light on the myriad ways that Indigenous hunting, fishing and gathering societies are persisting into the 21st century. While they are among some of the... More

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Report: Responsibilities and Relationships: Decolonizing the BC Food Systems Network

The BC Food Systems Network (BCFSN) strives to build and maintain networks inclusive of diversity of cultures聽including Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. In 2012, with support from Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement鈥檚 (CFICE) Community Food聽Security (CFS) Hub the BCFSN staff developed an evaluation to better understand... More

Monday, January 30, 2017

Stewart Street Residents and Researchers Reflect Upon ANC Stewart Street 鈥� Peterborough

by Nadine Changfoot, Katie Caddigan, Jason Hartwick, and Tessa Nasca Katie Caddigan and Jason Hartwick, Stewart Street residents, and Tessa Nasca and Nadine Changfoot, researchers at Trent University and members of CFICE, met to discuss and reflect on what participating on the ANC Stewart Street 鈥� Peterborough project provided them six months... More

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Community Conversations with B!ke Peterborough and GreenUp

by Nadine Changfoot, Academic Co-lead, Community Environmental Sustainability Hub (Pbto/Halib) On October 7, 2016, B!ke Peterborough and GreenUP Peterborough organized a day long Community Conversation informed by the work of the CFICE and Trent supported Active Neighbourhoods Canada (ANC) Stewart Street Neighbourhood Project in Peterborough... More

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Report: CFICE Symposium Backgrounder (Preliminary Phase I Findings)

On January 18 and 19, 2017, representatives from each of CFICE's Phase I hubs and Phase II working groups, came together in Ottawa to discuss the findings of the project to date. The event celebrated聽CFICE's impact in communities across Canada and also looked at what recommendations could be carried forward in Phase II to... More

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