Centre for Community Partnerships

The tri-campus Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) is mandated to build community, enhance capacity and steward partnerships for curricular and co-curricular community-engaged learning (CEL) and research (CER) initiatives. CCP works with faculty, staff, students and community partners to facilitate opportunities for students to learn from, and contribute to, community organizations.

Community-engaged learning is a form of experiential learning distinguished by its pedagogical approach, which has the following features:

• Takes place in partnership with non-profit, grassroots and public organizations
• Responds to community-defined priorities
• Anchored in reciprocity, so that community partners and students each benefit from the engagement
• Student reflection on community engagement experiences is integrated into the course or program design

CCP’s mandate is informed by student, faculty and community partner input, and is operationalized through a variety of community, faculty, staff and student-focused initiatives. These include instructor resources and support for CEL course design and delivery; staff-and faculty-facing programming for fostering best practices in CEL; and co-curricular CEL programs for students.