Involved in community engagement activities? Tell us about it

Are you involved in community-engaged teaching or research? Do you work with partners in Hamilton, regional, national and even global communities?

If so, McMaster’s Network for Community Campus Partnerships wants to hear from you.

From June to August 2015, the Network, is asking faculty to add their community engagement activities and community partnerships to a new searchable database accessible through McMaster’s community engagement website, MacConnector.*

The information gathered will help inform the Community Engagement Strategic Planning Process recently launched by the Network.

“Learning more about current community engagement activities is an important step in the development of a long-term community engagement strategy,” says Sheila Sammon, McMaster’s director of community engagement. “This information will help us to set priorities, connect those with common interests, and celebrate successful community campus partnerships. I encourage anyone involved this this work to share their projects and use the database to help us build this foundation of knowledge.”

At the end of the current strategic planning process, the database will continue to provide a platform for faculty to submit community engagement initiatives.

A key recommendation to emerge from the Community Engagement Task Force, and developed through a campus-wide consultation process, the database was created as a way to track community-engaged education and research initiatives where faculty are working with community partners. The database is intended to help facilitate information sharing, coordinate community engagement activities and identify priority areas for further support and development in the coming years.

GO TO THE DATABASE

Faculty members who contact the Network at community@mcmaster.ca to express interest in sharing their community-engaged activities by Friday July 10, will receive assistance creating their profile and entering their information into the database.

Click here to view a document that outlines the benefits of the database alongside an example of the type of information you can opt to share publicly. (Add final PDF)