FACULTY: CEL Teaching support services and resources

CCP staff can assist you with CEL course design and CEL course syllabi development, informed by latest best practices, scholarship and teaching tools. We also offer research advice for your existing practices and courses across institutions and disciplines.

Please contact Heather Hermant, Lead Coordinator, Academic Initiatives, to book a one-on-one consultation.

We can assist you with finding community partners for your CEL courses. We provide access to our network of community partners in the not-for-profit and volunteer sectors, school boards, and governments in the GTA and Peel Region. We help to broker relationships and work with you and the community partners to create mutually beneficial learning outcomes.

To assist us in this process, please complete a Request for Partnership Proposal (RFPP) (DOCX) and submit it to heather.hermant@utoronto.ca. We use the information you provide to inform which community partners we approach about your course. Once submitted, we will work with you to develop an outreach strategy to potential community partners. We typically need a full term’s advance notice to support community partnership development. Instructors who are new to CEL should book a course consultation prior to submitting the RFPP.

The RFPP deadline for fall and full-year courses is the first week of May. The deadline for spring courses is the first week of September. The deadline for summer courses is the first week of January.

For more information, please contact Heather Hermant, Lead Coordinator, Academic Initiatives.

We administer an anonymous student CEL course surveys. Each spring, we return aggregated results of your students’ data to you for your own use. Interested faculty members must circulate the survey link to their students. The data we collect is essential to our efforts to report on  and advocate for the value of community-engaged learning at the University of Toronto.

We also survey CEL course instructors about their CEL teaching experiences to assist us with shaping the services, programs and resources we design for CEL faculty.

If you are interested in participating in the course surveys or have any questions, please contact Heather Hermant, Lead Coordinator, Academic Initiatives.

We use our campus-wide communications channels—CCP website, listservs, newsletters and posters—to promote your course to students.

We offer modest funding to support faculty members who are teaching Community-Engaged Learning courses. The purpose of the Community Partner Engagement Fund is to strengthen community partner engagement, deepen existing relationships with community partners and show gratitude to community partners for their investment in student learning. Faculty members teaching CEL courses may apply for up to $250.

In the current context of remote learning, eligible types of expenses include honoraria for community partner course consultation and for community partners as guest lecturers. Expenses for events and activities that bring together community partners and students, and community partners’ transportation costs, will become eligible should in-person learning activities resume at the University. Please see the application form for more on eligibility.