| Title | Undergraduate Leadership Development: Leveraging the student experience to strengthen Community Engaged Learning |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2019 |
| Completion | 03/31/2021 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Title | Expanding Community Engaged Learning Opportunities Across First Year Cohort-Based Programs |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2019/2020 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Kerry Greer |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 22,653 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Kerry Greer, Instructor, Sociology, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 1: Summary | Community engaged learning (CEL) is a high-impact learning activity that deepens student learning and improves mastery of course material. For students in first year cohort programs, specifically the Coordinated Arts Program (CAP) and Vantage College (VC) , CEL offers students the opportunity to have a shared, common experience, something that is difficult to otherwise achieve with the diverse student body enrolled in both programs. CEL also provides a context for students to gain professional experience while developing their understanding of the broader Vancouver community that they are now a part of. However, faculty knowledge of and confidence in developing CEL opportunities for students is limited in both programs. This project builds faculty capacity by establishing CEL Faculty Fellows and sustainable resource support by providing specially trained CEL TA Fellows who, combined with CEL Mentors, will support new practitioners of CEL in exploring this innovative pedagogical method across both the CAP and VC. |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2020/2021 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Kerry Greer |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 27,090 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Kerry Greer, Senior Instructor, Sociology, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: Summary | Community engaged learning (CEL) is a deeply transformative pedagogical strategy incorporating multiple stakeholders into the learning process. From the faculty perspective, it requires managing a group of students who often have very individualized learning experiences as they engage with community partners at multiple sites. For students, community engaged learning is transformative, but stressful – they have to learn to navigate learning outside of the context of the classroom, and develop skills for working with a much more diverse set of actors than they are accustomed. This project leverages the student experience and builds on it by hiring undergraduates who have experience with CEL as student-leads to support faculty, fellow students and community partners. Undergraduates will be trained by the Centre for Community Engaged Learning, building on a model developed to train graduate TAs in a similar role, and will then be matched with faculty to support ongoing community engaged learning projects. |