Pierce Today

When: Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Description    

The Office of Community Partnerships supports faculty in developing and implementing teaching community-engaged courses, assignments, and assessments. Organized around a

community of practice (CoP), OCP brings together faculty with varying degrees of expertise and experience multiple times a year to discuss and workshop course and assignment

design, as well as other matters related to community-engaged learning, from the theoretical to the practical.

Members are offered professional development opportunities that include reading and discussion sessions, presentations by visiting scholars, networking sessions with existing and

potential community partners, round-table discussions with experienced scholars whose work promotes community engagement, and assignment workshops.

Featured Speaker:

Dr. Linnea Beckett is an anthropologist of education with expertise in decolonial feminisms, informal learning and community-engaged methodologies. She is currently the assistant

adjunct professor and director of the Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research [(H)ACER] program at UC Santa Cruz. She co-designed (H)ACER as an anti-racist, anti

colonial community research and learning program to support specifically first generation, BIPOC, and transfer student success at UC Santa Cruz.

Dr. Beckett runs community-engaged research projects through the (H)ACER program, forging deep community partnerships and supporting undergraduate research opportunities.

Today, she will share her approach to building ethically-oriented community partnerships and draw from current research with a one-acre immigrant-led community garden and an

international groundwater sustainability collaborative to highlight student and community experiences in these collaborative efforts. She will frame her talk as a provocation for

scholars and educators toward envisioning/building/sustaining life-affirming community-university relationships.

Event interval: Single day event

Campus location: UW Tacoma Tioga Library Building (TLB)

Campus room: TLB 307B

Event Types: Academics, Information Sessions, Lectures/Seminars, Special Events

Original source can be found here.