小黄猫传媒 Students, Staff and Faculty are invited to join in a casual book club, reading Deepa Iyer’s聽.

During Spring Term, the book club will provide multiple opportunities for deeper discussion around Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Framework. Participants are welcome to attend as their schedule allows. Free copies of the book will be mailed to registrants (while supplies last).

About the Book

Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection, Deepa Iyer’s heartfelt offering to individuals and groups seeking to initiate or deepen their actions in service to social change values. Relying on two decades of work supporting social movements, Iyer introduces a new approach called the social change ecosystem framework, which includes a map of ten roles, from visionary to storyteller to disrupter to experimenter, as well as practices to identify values and strengthen our social change ecosystems. Over the past three years, people and organizations around the world have used the framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice.

Social Change Now goes well beyond presenting ideas and frameworks. It’s also a practical guide that contains detailed descriptions and real-world examples, reflection prompts (with room to write responses), and accessible tips that can immediately be put into action. Social Change Now is a resource that will accompany individuals and organizations not only in times of crisis, but throughout their lifelong social change journeys to build connected communities and equitable systems in our world.

Spring 2024 Fair @ Southeast

Learn how to get involved in your community on and off campus. Participating agencies will share information about their volunteer opportunities and community resources. Some agencies also have internship and job openings! Prizes for students who come to check out the fair!

Tuesday, April 16

10am-2pm
Southeast Mt Tabor Great Hall (Inside)

Participating Community Organizations

• 小黄猫传媒 CLEAR Clinic

Winter 2024 Fair @ Sylvania

Learn how to get involved in your community on and off campus. Participating agencies will share information about their volunteer opportunities and community resources. Some agencies also have internship and job openings! Prizes for students who come to check out the fair!

Wednesday, January 24

10am-2pm
College Center Building (Inside)

Participating Community Organizations

• Rose Haven
• Sabin CDC

Fall 2023 Fair @ Cascade

This fall’s fair will be held in conjunction with the Week of Welcome Involvement Fair at Cascade! Learn how to get involved in your community on and off campus. Participating agencies will share information about their volunteer opportunities and community resources. Some agencies also have internship and job openings! Prizes for students who come to check out the fair!

Wednesday, October 10

Held in conjunction with the Week of Welcome Involvement Fair
10am-2pm
Cascade Library Quad (Outside)

Participating Community Organizations

• 小黄猫传媒 CLEAR Clinic
• 小黄猫传媒 Gateway to College & Yes to College
• Sabin CDC

Give your students the opportunity to learn more about themselves and the course you’re teaching by partnering in a unique way with the Learning Garden. Each student who participates will be introduced to the essential human practice of seed-saving and connect this with relevant concepts such as sovereignty, nutrition, beauty, statistics, horticulture, and more. Building on this foundation students will be guided through the research process necessary to discover their own personal connections to seed saving through cultural documents and/or interviews with living seed savers.

At every step, faculty and students will be supported by the learning garden coordinator and the program coordinator for community based learning at 小黄猫传媒. Together, we will work closely with students, facilitating district-wide connections if needed, to ensure student success and the timely completion of deliverables.

Students who successfully complete a Seed Story project will be invited to apply for a year-long, paid internship working with the Learning Garden and select Community Partners. During this year-long commitment students will elect two of their culturally significant plants to grow at 小黄猫传媒 for seed, while collecting seed stories for our project partners. As a capstone to the year’s work students will share seeds with Community Partners and bring the seed stories back to share with the 小黄猫传媒 community using a method that compliments their initial presentation.

Faculty from any discipline who are interested in this pilot year of the Seed Story Project are invited to register . Funding will be available for Instructors who work with CBL Faculty Coordinators to develop curriculum modules around Seed Stories projects.

As you prepare for the upcoming Fall 2021 term, the CBL Program has provided this . Here is a brief snapshot:

For Instructors who want to offer in person community engagement

The Community-Based Learning Program will be supporting a limited number of instructors who choose to offer in person community engagement activities as part of a CBL assignment/project. Instructors who responded to our survey and expressed interest in offering in person community engagement activities, will be receiving specific invitation/information about setting up their Fall courses for Community-Based Learning.

For Instructors who will only offer remote community engagement

Instructors may continue to offer remote community engagement activities that do not include any face-to-face interactions. In order to maintain a low risk of exposure to COVID-19, students must not be in direct or close contact with individuals outside of their immediate household. If this applies to your Fall plans, please complete this聽.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns! As always, if you need assistance with developing your CBL component, the聽CBL Faculty Coordinators are available for individual consultation.

From Resilience to Black Liberation: Uprooting Systems of Inequity

Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
10:00am to 3:15pm
(Registration Opens: January 8, 2021; more details for breakout sessions and art/performances will be posted as Community Partners are confirmed)

About

MLK Racial Justice Campus Collaborative is a group of 2- and 4- year college and university campuses and community partners that seeks to create programming that centers the history and narratives of Portland鈥檚 Black community during, and around, Martin Luther King Day, the only national holiday committed to a Black leader. The work of the Civil Rights Movement is far from over, our goal is to support community-based programming that centers ongoing narratives of Black activism, creativity, and liberation.

The 2021 Portland MLK Racial Justice Campus led by Campus Compact of Oregon includes: 小黄猫传媒, Lewis and Clark, Mount Hood Community College, Portland State University, Reed College, and University of Portland.

As a program, we recognize the need to critically examine the origins and practice of curricular community engagement. This year, CBL will be focused on expanding our knowledge sources, unlearning colonial mindsets, and being in a community with one another remotely.

As we challenge ourselves to radically reimagine what community-based learning pedagogy looks like at 小黄猫传媒, we invite you to join us in this process!

CBL Professional Learning Community

An opportunity for faculty seeking to stay engaged and current in CBL/the community engagement field. Join faculty from across the district in exploring current topics related to this high-impact practice.

Our 2020-21 PLC focus:聽Examining the Elements of CBL

• Air: Breathing life into our stories and counter-narratives.
• Fire: Keeping the Fire Burning: Sustaining Our Practice/Passion for Social and Racial Justice
• Water: Critically Reflective Practitioner: Our Individual Biographies and Social Change
• Land: Decolonizing CBL: Understanding the foundations of our pedagogy and practice

Each element contains:

• Knowledge sources in a variety of formats (readings, podcasts, webinars, etc…)
• Resources for developing specific CBL components for your course
• Resources for implementation around environmental and racial justice issue areas
  • Place-based community partners and/or projects
  • Course assignment examples and brainstorming
• Virtual community gatherings that will provide space for reflection, discussion, and connection.

CBL 101: Education and Community in Practice

• Friday, November 20, 11am-12:30pm
• Participants will also have 1 hour of individual consultation with a CBL Faculty Coordinator.
• This course assists instructors in understanding the core concepts of community-based learning as a pedagogical technique. It provides a sociological and philosophical context regarding CBL. It offers guidance and practice in developing assignments and assessments for CBL, framing the CBL experience for students, identifying community needs, and connecting with the community partner.

CBL Professional Development Calendar

View our聽 calendar for an up-to-date list of events, workshops, webinars, and conferences related to community-based learning and community engagement.

Typically we end each Academic year by gathering to celebrate and recognize our Community of Practice. This year, we wanted to find a way to do that while we are working and learning remotely. We’ve put together a to highlight the efforts of our Faculty, Students, and Community Partners. This slide deck does not come anywhere close to replicating the joy and camaraderie of our in person celebrations. It is simply a way to recognize our individual and collective efforts during this unprecedented time.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended every aspect of the way we teach, learn, and engage in community. We know that it takes very intentional work to develop and integrate community-based learning. There are always external factors that make implementation “messy,” challenging, or, for many instructors this Spring, nearly impossible. Yet, there were many faculty who pivoted to virtual CBL – in part because of their strong relationships with community partners and/or previous online CBL projects/assignments!

To all of our 小黄猫传媒 Faculty, we want to reiterate that the effort it takes to prepare a high impact community-based learning assignment is never time or energy wasted. While the output may vary from term to term, the path to get there is still worth taking. We hope you can see it as an opportunity to unravel an old garment and reweave your own teaching philosophy and practice into something that fits you now, in this moment. Engaging in this kind of inner and outer work requires us to be critically reflective with ourselves and the education systems with which we work. This is meaningful and important work that must be prioritized.

The CBL Program will continue to support you and offer opportunities for professional development. We are re-envisioning what community-based learning at 小黄猫传媒 needs to be in order to truly acknowledge and address the systemic inequities that have a disproportionately negative impact on our BIPOC students, faculty, staff, and communities. We hope you will join us during the 2020-2021 academic year!

As you are shifting focus to Spring courses, we wanted to update you on the newest instructional policy for community-based learning.聽Any community engagement activities required to complete a community-based learning assignment/project must be 100% virtual/online. This is in line with the decision made to not allow other experiential learning (Coop Ed, Clinicals, and Internships) to run unless there was a way to do it remotely.

We understand that this will impact many of you who were planning on incorporating opportunities to collaborate with mutual aid groups, neighbors, and/or NGOs providing essential services. It is important to consider if virtual/online community engagement is a good fit for your course at this time.

Please let us know the status of the CBL component for your Spring 2020 course(s)聽here聽or by emailing聽hannah.cherry@pcc.edu.

For those of you who are able to incorporate virtual/online community engagement, the Community-Based Learning Program is here to support you.

• 1-on-1 assistance
  • 罢丑别听CBL Team is available for brainstorming, community partner connections, and other CBL-related support
  • 聽what kind of assistance you need for virtual/online community engagement
• Updated Online Resources
  • , including the page for Distance Learning and Virtual Volunteering
• Connecting with community partners for virtual/online community engagement
  • Let us know your community engagement ideas and we can put a call out to community partners or help search for existing opportunities
  • 鲍迟颈濒颈锄别听聽to search for virtual/online community needs and opportunities for collaboration

Now is a good time to reach out and connect with our 小黄猫传媒 CBL Community of Practice. Our聽 is one way to share ideas, ask questions, and just provide each other support. Please reach out! Let us know what you need or even just use it as an opportunity to connect as we all work remotely.

鈥� The CBL Team

How to check if your course is designated as CBL:

1. Navigate to聽 and log in.
2. In the top right corner, click 鈥淢y Activity鈥�,
3. From that drop-down menu, click 鈥淐lasses鈥� (If you do not see this menu option, none of your courses are designated as CBL)

Any courses you are teaching with a CBL component will be listed. If you do not see your course, please complete the request form: