UAA Webinar: Community-Engaged Teaching

Community Engaged Teaching: Building the Institutional Support that Scholars Need

Friday, November 3, 2023
12:00 – 1:30pm Eastern Time

DESCRIPTION OF WEBINAR

The field of urban affairs welcomes opportunities for applied scholarship and community engaged teaching, as avenues for faculty, students and community partners to come together to co-create and advance knowledge, and positively impact our communities. Despite being a high-impact teaching practice, good teaching with the community is time consuming, challenging, and does not fit into the “traditional” model of pedagogy.  In this webinar, we will hear from leaders at universities that provide tangible support to community-engaged scholars. These leaders will share their approaches to designing supportive community-engaged institutional environments for students, faculty, and partners. We will explore how faculty can help promotion and tenure decision-makers and others understand the challenges and benefits of teaching with the community; as well as how to encourage our own institutions to embrace practices  that would make often nebulous “support” for community engaged teaching more concrete.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Best practices for institutional support of community-based learning
2. Effective ways to work with administrators to encourage adoption of policies and practices to support this pedagogy
3. Strategies for effective communication with promotion/tenure committees and others about community-engaged teaching

TARGET AUDIENCES

• Graduate Students (Advanced Dissertation Stage/Job Search)
• Early Career (1-3 Years Beyond Doctoral Degree)
• Early Career (4-6 Years Beyond Doctoral Degree)
• Mid-Career/Senior/Year 7+ Beyond Doctoral Degree

SIGN-UP & COST

• UAA Members: Free
• Non-UAA Members: $25
• Deadline to Sign-up:  November 1, 2023

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QUESTIONS?

• Contact [email protected]