Taking Education Beyond the Walls of the Classroom
CEFI 2022: Tentatively Scheduled for 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.
Due to COVID, CEFI 2022 might have restrictions on participation. We will know more in late spring 2022, but we expect that Notre Dame faculty, staff, and graduate students will be able to attend. We will announce what we know as soon as we know it..
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 2021:Childhood Adversity and Solidarity in South Bend Description
CEFI 2021 focused its conversations, readings, and site visits on the theme of “Childhood Adversity and Solidarity in South Bend.” We explored 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 considered in particular how to understand and respond to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in solidarity with the many local organizations that seek to address unjust adverse community environments.
Participants received the book The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California, to read as a foundation. We engaged additional readings and viewings, including the readings recommended by Provost Miranda’s “Moment to See, Courage to Act” faculty group conversations. This institute sought to extend our knowledge to see and ability to act in solidarity with our community partners.
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If you have questions or want more information, contact Connie Snyder Mick at cmick@nd.edu.
