TRUCEN Annual Meeting

TRUCEN hosts an annual meeting, typically in the early spring, inviting individuals from member institutions who lead or oversee civic and community engagement work in their respective high research university settings. The meeting provides an opportunity for members to share the knowledge and strategies they employ to advance higher education community engagement in their institutional contexts as well as to brainstorm new and creative approaches to common challenges and opportunities that members collectively encounter in their work.

The TRUCEN 2022 meeting included representative from a range of TRUCEN institutions and focused on series of panels and roundtable discussions on racial justice and youth engagement, community-engaged research through an equity lens, and cultivating community voice in our engagement work. The meeting also included a featured keynote presentation by Tania Mitchell (University of Minnesota) and report backs from the TRUCEN sustained dialogue groups on the following focal topics: Community-Engaged Research; Anti-Racist Pedagogies; Strengthening Engagement in a Challenged Democracy; and Supporting Student Activism and Community Organizing.