Find out more about professional learning opportunities that can help you build your knowledge, skills, and abilities. These optional activities are aligned with the competency areas laid out by our Community Engagement Professional Credentialing program and can play an important role in helping you prepare to apply for credentials.

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Communities of Practice

Campus Compact’s Communities of Practice (CoPs) offer community engagement practitioners from across the country a platform and space for shared learning and collegial supportMany are aligned around credential competency areas and offer a great opportunity to work collaboratively toward applying for credentials.

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Past opportunities

CME 6300: Community Engagement in Higher Education
August 30-December 17, 2021 | Weekly webinars: Friday, 11:30am-1:50pm

Instructor: Dan Sarofian-Butin. (Offered online through Merrimack College).
This course examines the contemporary community engagement movement – e.g., service-learning, civic and community engagement, community-based research- in higher education. It explores key programmatic issues such as course development, student outcomes, and community partnerships as well as core theoretical questions. The courses will focus on the limits and possibilities of community engagement in higher education through multiple frames of reference: technical, cultural, political, and conceptual.
Community engagement fundamentals credential
 

CME 6320: Institutional Partnerships
August 30-December 17, 2021 | Weekly webinars: Wednesday, 4pm-6:20pm
Instructor: Gregg Grenier (Offered online through Merrimack College).
This course provides an overview of the institutional partnerships that higher education institutions engage with across multiple sectors: community organizations, government, and corporations. Topics include theories of the nonprofit sector, institutional partnership structures, mutual benefit and reciprocity achievement, international partnership perspectives, and the implementation of cross-sector initiatives to address social issues. This course focuses on the market, ethical, and organizational factors that shape each partnership.
Community engagement fundamentals credential

CME 6540 University-Community Relations
May 24 – July 2, 2021 | Weekly webinar: Monday and Wednesday, 6:30pm-8:50pm

Instructed by Lane Glenn and Noemi Custodia-Lora. (Offered online through Merrimack College). 
This course is an exploration of patterns of communication, interaction, and relationships between institutions of higher education and their local and regional communities. The course examines how historical, social, cultural, and political forces impact such relationships and interactions, and how various iterations of power and influence play out between colleges and communities. The course also examines relations within the context of the media and the press, the goals of community development and change, and the role of the university in its engagement with the public sphere.
Community partnerships credential

CME 6025G Community Engagement in Higher Education
August 24 – Dec. 4, 2020 | Weekly Webinar: Fridays 8am – 9:50 am EST.

Instructed by Dan Sarofian-Butin, PhD. (Online; offered through Merrimack College).
This course examines the contemporary community engagement movement – e.g., service-learning, civic and community engagement, community-based research- in higher education. It explores key programmatic issues such as course development, student outcomes, and community partnerships as well as core theoretical questions. The courses will focus on the limits and possibilities of community engagement in higher education through multiple frames of reference: technical, cultural, political, and conceptual.  For more information, contact Allison Pena at penaa@merrimack.edu or visit merrimack.edu/communityengagement.
Community engagement fundamentals credential

CME 6025G Community Engagement in Higher Education
January 16 – May 8, 2020 | Weekly Webinar: Fridays 8am – 9am EST

Instructed by Dan Sarofian-Butin, PhD. (Online; offered through Merrimack College).
This course examines the contemporary community engagement movement – e.g., service-learning, civic and community engagement, community-based research- in higher education. It explores key programmatic issues such as course development, student outcomes, and community partnerships as well as core theoretical questions. The courses will focus on the limits and possibilities of community engagement in higher education through multiple frames of reference: technical, cultural, political, and conceptual.  For more information, contact Alexandra Harrigan at harrigana@merrimack.edu or visit merrimack.edu/communityengagement.
Community engagement fundamentals credential

HIGHED 662: Community Engagement in Higher Education
January 29 – May 13 | Weekly webinar: Wednesdays, 5:30pm -8:15pm EST

Instructed by John Saltmarsh, PhD (Online, offered through UMass Boston, Department of Leadership in Education)
Community Engagement in American Higher Education has had a long history tied to the democratic and public purposes of postsecondary education. This course will focus primarily on the current community engagement movement, starting in the 1970 through to the present. Our collective goal is to critically examine the philosophical, theoretical, historical, and programmatic dimensions of the current community engagement movement as well as the implications for practice, student learning, organizational change, and institutional commitment to fulfilling the democratic purpose of higher education. For more information about the course, including tuition and fees, see the course flyer. Contact highereducation@umb.edu for assistance in registering for the course.

ELP 521, Adult Learning & Motivation
June 22- July 17, 2020

instructed by Dr. Christine Cress (4 credits). Fully online
For more information including tuition and registration information, contact Stefanie Randol at the PSU College of Education: askcoe@pdx.edu. This course examines theoretical and research perspectives regarding adult learning, motivation, and professional development in college and community environments. The goal is to understand application of learning theory to support teaching, training, and educational programming in formal (traditional classrooms), non-formal (workshops), and alternative (online) pedagogical forms including experiential and community-based learning. Equity-centered teaching and learning principles provide the basis for shaping educational praxis strategies that can be adapted to support diverse learners, learning communities, and professional organizations. Dr. Christine Cress developed and directs the Graduate Certificate and Master’s Degree Specialization in Service-Learning and Community-Based Learning at Portland State University. (visit here for more information).
Community-engaged learning and teaching credential

ED 667G University-Community Relations
May 18 – June 26, 2020 | 
Weekly webinar: Monday, 4pm-5:50pm
Instructed by Lane Glenn & Noemi Custodia-Lora (Online, offered through Merrimack College). 
This course is an exploration of patterns of communication, interaction, and relationships between institutions of higher education and their local and regional communities. The course examines how historical, social, cultural, and political forces impact such relationships and interactions, and how various iterations of power and influence play out between colleges and communities. The course also examines relations within the context of the media and the press, the goals of community development and change, and the role of the university in its engagement with the public sphere
Community partnerships credential