The York University - TD Community Engagement Centre (CEC) promotes accessibility and social justice through partnerships between the community and the university. The CEC mandate includes enriching student experience, promoting shared responsibility for communities, reducing barriers to post-secondary education, encouraging collaborative research, and providing opportunities for new collaborations. The CEC supports community-engaged scholarship and houses several committees and working groups focused on outreach, research, fundraising, evaluation, inter-professional education, public education, and access.
1. York University - TD
Community Engagement
Centre (CEC)
Community Engaged Scholarship: Critical Junctures
in Research, Practice and Policy
November 4th, 2010
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What is the CEC?
A teaching, research and resource centre that
promotes accessibility and social justice by fostering
meaningful and transformative partnerships between
the community and the University
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The CEC Mandate
1) Enrich the educational experience of our students
2) Promote a sense of shared responsibility for our
communities
3) Reduce barriers to post-secondary education
4) Encourage collaborative research partnerships
5) Provide fertile ground for new collaborations
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Committees and Working Groups
Executive Director
CEC Staff
Outreach & Nomination
Program Research &
Knowledge
Exchange
FundraisingEvaluation
IPE
Public Education
Access
General Membership: comprised of stakeholders who live and/or work in Black Creek (including York students,
faculty, staff, alum)
Office of
VPA
Executive Committee: 10-12 members drawn from General Membership. Equal numbers of
stakeholders internal and external to York. Fifty percent of membership need to be Black
Creek residents and two members must be youth.
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Research and Knowledge Exchange
Working Group (RKE)
Research &
Knowledge
Exchange
The RKE Working Group
encourages collaborative
community/university
research partnerships to
address social issues and
to promote healthier
communities and positive
social change.
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Community Finance Project and the
Micro Loan fund
For more information email: microlending@blackcreekcapacity.ca
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Inter-professional Education
Subcommittee (IPE)
The IPE Subcommittee
creates and supervises
interdisciplinary, inter-
professional learning
opportunities for students
that are responsive to
community needs and
provide tangible benefits for
community partners.
Program
IPE
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ODSP project
An inter-professional group committed to the realization of social
justice through education, advocacy and community. Our team is
made up of students and professionals from a variety of York
University departments including:
• Osgoode Hall Law School
• School of Nursing
• School of Social Work
• Faculty of Education
• Department of Design