Taking Education Beyond the Walls of the Classroom
CEFI 2022: June 1-3, 2022
The Center for Social Concerns offers the Community Engagement Faculty Institute (CEFI) for all who want to explore or deepen their knowledge, skills, and passion for community-engaged teaching, learning, and research. This dynamic Community Engagement Faculty Institute is imbued with engaged learning, mixing lectures by faculty and community experts on the theory and practice of community-university partnerships with immersion into the South Bend community to learn with community partners.
Applications for CEFI 2022 will be accepted until March 1, 2022 at 5:00 pm. See additional information below.
How does CEFI connect faculty with partners at the University and the South Bend community? Listen to Grant Mudge, Ryan Producing Artistic Director of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, describe his experiences.
CEFI 2022: Self-Healing Communities
CEFI 2022 will focus our conversations, readings, and site visits on the theme of Self-Healing Communities. We will explore what it means to work towards a trauma-informed approach to academic community engagement. South Bend has a poverty rate of about 24% and a child poverty rate above 30%. Those high rates indicate a high level of stress for adults and children alike. In CEFI, we will consider in particular how we can understand and respond to individual and structural causes of trauma in solidarity with the many local organizations that seek to address unjust community environments.
Agenda and Objectives
Details
Participants who would like to be on the program may propose a talk in the application. Lunch will be provided each day.
Registration Fee
No fee for Notre Dame faculty, staff, and graduate students, or local St. Joseph County community partners.
Apply
Applications are due Tuesday, March 1, 2022 by 5:00 p.m.
Questions
If you have questions or want more information, contact Connie Snyder Mick at cmick@nd.edu.
