Center for Community Engaged Learning

Community Engaged Learning Faculty Resources

Think your course may qualify for a Community Engaged Learning (CEL) designation? Take a look at our CEL Course Requirements and email alancaster@weber.edu for more information.

CEL Training Modules

All CEL courses must have students complete the CEL Training Modules. Faculty and instructors can download the Canvas Commons page into their Canvas course by clicking on the button below to visit the Canvas Commons page in Canvas. If, for any reason, the link does not work, log into Canvas, visit the Canvas Commons section, then search "CEL Training Modules" to locate the page and load it into your Canvas course(s).

Canvas Commons Page

GivePulse

CEL faculty are asked to have their students track community engagement hours through GivePulse.  This platform has all courses pre-loaded via Banner to allow students and faculty easy access to log their community engagement hours with the appropriate class and CCEL. To learn more about how to use GivePulse and integrate it into your Canvas course, please watch the GivePulse Faculty Overview video or view the Get to Know GivePulse slides. If you have any further questions, please email ccel@weber.edu.

Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement

Learn more about the Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement from Userve Utah.

The Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement are:

  • Community Organizing and Activism
  • Community Engaged Learning and Research
  • Direct Service
  • Philanthropy
  • Policy and Governance
  • Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility

Campus Memberships

International Association for Research and Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)

Weber State University has an institutional membership. Live and previously recorded webinars are available with no admission (use the promo code RESEARCH24)

Campus Compact

Weber State University is a Campus Compact member institution. All faculty can create an individual login at compact.org/form/member-register to access teaching tools, syllabi templates and models, assignments, activities, and scholarly resources.

Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU)

Weber State University has an institutional membership with CUMU. Faculty can access resources through the CUMU website to learn more about CUMU's Anchor Mission Initiatives and submit community-engaged research to the Metropolitan Universities Journal.

Community of Practice

CCEL hosts an annual Community of Practice, facilitated by our Faculty-in-Residence. Join colleagues from across the University to learn about how you can design classroom assignments, scholarship, research, and creative activities that help you and your students to engage with the local community.

The 2024-25 Community of Practice is focused on engaged teaching and scholarship. The Community of Practice will explore foundational theories of community-engaged teaching, learning and scholarship, with a focus on providing participants with tools and resources they can use in their classrooms and in their provisional development as faculty members. Our goal is to work collaboratively to develop one of two final pieces:

  • An engaged-teaching strategy, lesson or assignment
  • An engaged scholarship project that the faculty member will complete.

We will also explore how to foster partnerships with community organizations, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies and local businesses. Over the course of this Community of Practice, participants will learn how to connect their teaching, research, scholarship, creative activities ands service to community-engaged theories and applied practices. We also will include a group project that will be submitted to the faculty symposium and a publication outlet at the end of the 2024-25 academic year.

Learn more about the Community of Practice on the CETL website.

 

Community Engagement Library

New York Times

Access instructional content and tolls from the New York Times. Register with your @weber.edu email is at nytimes.ineducation.com/register.

Campus Compact

Metropolitan Universities Journal

Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies

International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The Journal off Service Learning in Higher Education

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

eJournal of Public Affairs 

International Journal for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE)

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

Community Engagement Organizations

Other Centers

  • Service Learning - Science Education Resource Center (SERC) @ Carleton College