Faculty Institute 2025


2025 CEL Faculty Institute: What’s Next for CEL? Charting the Course for Transformative Change   

The Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) invites you to attend the 2025 Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Institute, What’s Next for Community-Engaged Learning? Charting the Course for Transformative Change. The CEL Faculty Institute is an annual event that brings together CEL instructors from across the University of Toronto to share and learn from each other about effective strategies for CEL teaching, informed by the latest research and on-the-ground experience. The two-part event will take place over two days, the first featuring a virtual plenary panel and the second, an in-person day at the University of Toronto St. George Campus. This year’s Institute will offer an opportunity to reflect on 20 years of CEL at U of T, and to further our collective critical thinking about the future of CEL. 
 
  

CEL Faculty Institute: Virtual Plenary Panel

Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Time: 2:30 – 4 p.m. ET
Location: Virtual (Zoom)

As the University of Toronto community marks the 20-year anniversary of the Centre for Community Partnerships and celebrates 20 years of innovative and impactful community-engaged learning collaborations between faculty, students, staff and community partners, this panel will invite us to consider what comes next for community-engaged learning. The five panelists, who have decades of experience as community-engaged learning scholars and practitioners, will gather to reflect on the future of community-engaged learning, including what we might expect in the pedagogy and practice over the next 20 years in ever more challenging contexts. How can we envision a more transformative approach to our pedagogy and partnerships? What challenges and opportunities are on the horizon for CEL as a practice? How can CEL help us to collectively respond to the multiple crises of our times? 

Panelists:

  • Patti H. Clayton, Ph.D., Independent Consultant, PHC Ventures, Practitioner-Scholar-In-Residence, North Carolina Campus Engagement (NCCE), Senior Scholar, Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) 
  • Tim K. Eatman, Ph.D., Inaugural Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community, Professor Department of Urban Education, Faculty Affiliate Department of Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences-Newark, Center for Security, Race and Rights, School of Law, Rutgers University-Newark 
  • Tania D. Mitchell, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Community Engagement, Professor in Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education, University of Maryland  
  • Dan Sarofian-Butin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Education and Community Studies, School of Education & Social Policy, Merrimack College 
  • Randy Stoecker, Ph.D., Independent Community Development and Knowledge Mobilization Consultant, previously Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
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In-Person Gathering

Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Time: 8:45 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Location: Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, St. George campus
Registration deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025


We will host a full-day gathering at Hart House on St. George Campus. The day will include a community thought leaders’ plenary featuring some of our longest standing and dedicated community partners in CEL; concurrent panels; lunch; and opportunities to contribute to a storytelling initiative recognizing CEL work that has been done, and the work that continues, to catalyze transformative change. All University of Toronto instructors are invited to attend the in-person event. 

A complete agenda will be published as soon as possible.

Please note that staff who support CEL and community-partnered EL will receive invitations through their units for this in-person day. 

Register for the In-Person Gathering