Centre for Community Partnerships

The Faculty Advisory Committee advises the Centre for Community Partnerships and advocates for community-engaged learning at the University of Toronto.

The CCP Faculty Advisory Committee is comprised of:

• Two co-chairs
• The Director of the Centre for Community Partnerships, the Senior Director, Student Experience and the Vice-Provost of Innovations in Undergraduate Education
• 10-12 members with experience teaching using a community-engaged learning approach and publishing scholarship on community-engaged teaching and learning

Diverse representation (campuses, faculties, colleges, departments, rank, teaching and research streams, seniority at U of T, experience in CEL teaching and learning and community engagement) is of utmost importance.

The committee meets two times per year (early Fall term, early Spring term). 

Chairs serve a three-year term and members serve a two-year term.

• Provide feedback to CCP staff regarding faculty support, programming and the direction of the faculty development portfolio.
• Provide feedback to the CCP about their experiences teaching community-engaged learning courses, including benefits, barriers and other related issues.
• Identify and develop strategies for institutionalizing community-engaged learning more fully at the University of Toronto (e.g. Building the profile of community-engaged learning, attracting new faculty and units (departments, colleges, faculties) to the approach, integrating community-engaged learning into institutional priorities at various levels of the University of Toronto and identifying, advocating and promoting various rewards and incentives for faculty members using this engaged approach.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the profile of the CCP (key messages, methods of promoting the CCP to faculty and academic administrators).