Community Engagement Certificate
Professional Development Community Engagement Certificate
The Office of Community Relations, the Engaged Learning Office, and the Thayne Center for Student Life, Leadership, and Community Engagement are excited to offer the Community Engagement Professional Development Certificate for Faculty and Staff. The purpose of the certificate is to help foster community partnerships by sharing partner spaces and learning how to best engage with them. As faculty and staff build connections within the community and foster deeper college-community partnerships, the College, our students, and our communities will benefit.
Over four, 1.5 sessions, the Community Engagement Professional Development Certificate provides examples of engagement frameworks and introduces institutional tools that support reciprocal and effective partnerships.
Staff and faculty can attend one, two, or all workshops. If you are seeking a certificate, you must attend all four workshops and submit the provided reflection form after each workshop.
2024-2025 Schedule
Registration is limited and will open August 15, 2024. Register through MySLCC under non-required trainings.
Workshop 1: October 21 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Redwood Campus TB 225D-A
Lunch served
Focus Topic: The why behind the workshops; definitions, principles, values at SLCC
Workshop 2: Nov. 11 1-2:30 p.m., Encircle
Topic: Support Systems and Assessment
Partnership Discussion and tour of Encircle
Workshop 3: Feb. 10 1-2:30 p.m., ESL Center
Topic: Tools for Engagement
Partnership Discussion and tour of ESL Center
Workshop 4: March 24 1-2:30 p.m., Tracy Aviary Nature Center
Impact and Group Reflection
Discussion from faculty on example of good CEL partnerships
Partnership Discussion and tour of Tracy Aviary Nature Center
These workshops are designed for faculty and staff building or managing curricular, cocurricular, and outreach partnerships. The training is open to all full-time and part-time staff and faculty members but is specifically designed for staff and faculty interested in developing and strengthening partnerships or who are manager level and below.
Sign up opens each fall and is available in MySLCC under Employee Training (non-required) and search for K005 under the Community Relations department. Register for each workshop separately. Space is limited. Registration is required. Attendees can drive themselves to the partner location or transportation will be provided from the Redwood Campus to partner locations.
Please contact Community Relations at 801-957-4753 or communityrelations@slcc.edu with questions.