What is the Faculty Institute on Community Engaged Learning & Teaching?

Want your students to help advance research with real-world implications? Want to make a course more relevant to contemporary issues? Interested in deepening student learning while building their skills for making a difference? Have a community partner in other areas of your life you want to bring into your teaching? Perhaps you just want to incorporate an engaged element into an already existing course.

During this two-day institute, faculty develop a community-engaged course and connect with peers interested in community-engaged pedagogy.

CELT is co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching Innovation and the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Who can attend?

The institute is open to Cornell faculty and academic staff. All disciplines are welcome and encouraged to participate. The institute is aimed at faculty who would like to make community-engaged service-learning a major focus of their teaching and are interested in gaining insights on how to accomplish this.

When is CELT?

Please check back soon for more information Spring 2024 dates. 

Desired Outcomes

This institute introduces participants to:

• the main elements of community-engaged courses
• creating or reshaping a syllabus so that it integrates engagement
• foundational readings, tools, and discussions
• a network of support with colleagues from across campus

Application Process & Deadline

More information on the application process and deadline are forthcoming. 

Contact CTI for questions about this event or for assistance with the application.

There may be photographers from the Center at this event. Any photos taken may appear on the CTI website or on our Twitter page. Please let us know if you do not wish to be photographed.