For Faculty
Creating partnerships in our community
Want to develop opportunities for community-based learning, service-learning, or community-engaged research, or deepen your existing community-engaged efforts? W&M Civic & Community Engagement is here for you, whether you're starting from scratch or just need a boost of guidance.
While this page covers many resources for developing partnerships, facilitating critical reflection, and utilizing W&M resources, we know that community engagement often requires creative thinking and problem solving that's unique to each experience. We welcome you to engage with us directly so we can best support your teaching and research.
For timely updates from our office about new resources and opportunities:
Subscribe to the Community-Engaged Faculty Newsletter
Contact [[mcporter, Melody Porter]], director of Civic & Community Engagement, for resources or to discuss potential partnerships.
Developing Community PartnershipsWe have cultivated many relationships with community organizations in the Greater Williamsburg area and beyond, and we're here to help you initiate or deepen your own partnerships. In addition to opportunities to connect with community organizations, we are glad to consult with you on how to evolve your partnerships through work plans, shared assessment, and other strategies.
We know many W&M faculty already have existing relationship with community partners. Please encourage your partners to review the resources we have specifically for them. |
Facilitating Critical ReflectionCritical reflection - examining our experiences, relationships, knowledge, and beliefs to better understand and guide future action - is paramount to quality community-engaged learning. Depending on the partnership and community engagement activities, reflection can take many forms, and together we can consider what options are best for your students.
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Material ResourcesCommunity engagement takes time, energy, and other assets. Here are a few tangible resources we provide.
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Recruitment, Department Chairs, and Early Career Faculty
Resources developed by the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond: Valuing Community Engagement Throughout the Faculty Recruitment Process
Community-Engaged Faculty Activity: Resource for Department Chairs
Suggestions for Early Career Community-Engaged Scholars
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In addition to providing resources, W&M Civic & Community Engagement staff engage with faculty in a variety of ways, including:
- Convening the Presidential Council for Community Partnerships, the majority of members of which are faculty
- Collaborating on grant-funded projects including Noyce Scholars (NSF), Common Ground (Mellon Foundation), SCHEV, AmeriCorps, and others
- Hosting faculty as guest speakers and panelists at events such as our Williamsburg Engagement community discussions, Daily Work of Justice conversation series, training for Griffin School Partnerships, and Voter Engagement Committee programming
- Promoting faculty efforts through our weekly campus community engagement newsletter and social media
- Consulting faculty as reviewers for university community-engagement awards