Community-Engaged Course Development Grant and Workshop: Renewing Connection & Community

Save the Date – Application opens January 2026

Plan to join us in May 2026 for a funded, two-day, interactive course development and enhancement opportunity for full-time faculty at any experience level – from the newly curious to the lifelong practitioner – who want to integrate community connections and engagement into an undergraduate or graduate-level course. Grow your understanding of community-engaged (CE) course learning outcomes, community partnerships, critical elements of CE, assessment, and other components of sound community-engaged instruction based on participants’ interests and questions. Participants will leave the workshop with a framework they develop for a new or re-imagined community-engaged course. Opportunity for individual work time and consultation with CE scholars and faculty across disciplines will support a productive, cooperative working environment.

During our time together we will attend to, model, and provide instruction on key principles and practices, including individual and collective care, relationship building and healing, collaborative practices, drawing on art-based activities, and listening. Our hope is to (re)ignite commitment to forms of teaching and learning that value community-university mutual benefit, reciprocity, joyful engagement, shared responsibility, and deep connections to people and place.

Hopeful participants will complete an application packet requiring chair support. If selected, participants will receive a $1,500 stipend upon successful completion of the 2-day workshop, and submission of a new or revised course that meets the standards for CE/SVL designation.