Community Engaged Learning Renewal Designation - Community Engaged Learning - Office of Undergraduate Studies

Instructor Contact Information

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Last Name

Email Address

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College/School

Office, Department or Program:

Funds Information

CEL courses earn additional student credit hour (SCH) funding that is distributed about 8 weeks after the completion of each semester. Understanding how these funds are utilized is crucial to be able to advocate for additional resources for CEL courses. For this reason, we ask all CEL instructors to complete this survey. Have you completed the survey in the last 12 months?

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What chartfield activity number should CEL student credit hour (SCH) funds be transferred into? (If you don't know your chartfield, please work with your department accountant or administrative assistant.)

Department Accountant or Administrative Manager Contact Information

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First Name

Email Address

College/School Dean Name

Department Chair/Program Leader Name:

CEL Information

Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is an educational approach that involves experiential learning and has several key components:
- Engages with community to address a social problem or unmet societal need;
- Produces mutual benefits for community and students;
- Integrates community-engaged work and academic learning objectives;
- Prepares students for engagement, including critical analysis of the structures leading to the community need and best practices for ethical engagement;
- And provides reflection opportunities to critically examine the course's community work, related public issues, and/or one's civic role.

To make it clear to students taking the course, we ask that all syllabi submitted for the CEL designation include the definition of CEL. Is the CEL definition (above) listed in your course syllabus?

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What is the community engaged work that will be completed in this course?

What is the process for identifying work to be completed with community?

How does the community engaged work address a social issue or unmet societal need?

How do you prepare students for engagement, including critical analysis of the structures leading to the community need and best practices for ethical engagement?

How does the community engaged work benefit the community partner (individual, group, or organization)? How do you assess community impact of your course?

How does the community engaged work enhance student learning and course objectives?

Will all students in this course section be required to participate in the community engaged work?

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A minimum of two reflection activities on the community engagement are required for the CEL designation. More and on-going reflection activities are encouraged as a CEL best practice. Does your course have at least two reflection assignments on the community engaged experience clearly identified in your syllabus?

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Please upload a course syllabus that clearly identifies (highlighted in yellow) the CEL components of the course as mentioned in your answers above:
- definition of CEL
- course/student learning outcomes related to the community engagement activity
- CEL assignment(s)
- CEL reflection activities (at least two)

Upload at least one CEL assignment description.

Upload at least one CEL reflection assignment/activity description.

We are trying to share the story of CEL courses more broadly. If you are willing to share (and have permission from those shown), please upload an "action" photo from your course.

Community Partner Information

Describe the process used to identify community partners for your course.

Please list the course community partners you have worked with in the last 1-5 years (at least one is required):

Community Partner #1

Organization Name

Organization ZIP Code

Contact Name

Contact Email Address

Community Partner #2

Organization Name

Organization ZIP Code

Contact Name

Contact Email Address

Community Partner #3

Organization Name

Organization ZIP Code

Contact Name

Contact Email Address

If you have additional community partners, please list the organization name(s) here:

Civic Competency Information

Community Engaged Learning at the University of Utah strives to help students become civic-minded graduates. We believe taking CEL courses will help students develop their civic competencies: civic societal awareness, civic personal awareness, civic habits, civic skills, and civic values. Each civic competency has three criteria with outcome scales for evaluation. Review the full CEL Learning Outcomes Rubric.

The following are the CEL program learning outcomes. We do not expect these to be the learning outcomes of your individual course, and we do not expect an individual CEL course to meet all the civic competencies and/or criteria within each competency. We hope each CEL course will help students develop at least one or two of their civic competencies.

Please read each civic competency and select all the criteria you believe your course addresses and to which degree:

Which Civic Competencies does your course address? Select the competencies the course covers most thoroughly.

*Civic Societal Awareness* Critical understanding of social issues and how they are addressed in society. Criteria: knowledge of a social issue; knowledge of groups that address a social issue; and awareness of systems and power structures when addressing a social issue.*Civic Personal Awareness* Dynamic awareness of an individual's sense of place in society. Criteria: Reflection on values, attitudes, and/or beliefs; recognition of own positionality in systems and power structures; and response to systems and power structures.*Civic Skills* Development of necessary skills to ethically engage with communities. Criteria: empathy, openness, and collaboration.*Civic Values* Expressed desires and beliefs related to social responsibility and civic commitment. Criteria: valuing community-based knowledge; valuing the public purpose of a student's academic discipline; and sources of responsibility/commitment to community engagement.

To what degree does your course address Civic Societal Awareness: Critical understanding of social issues and how they are addressed in society?

	Beginner	Developing	Competent	Accomplished	N/A
Knowledge of a social issue
Knowledge of agencies/groups/organizations that address social issues
Awareness of systems and power structures when trying to address a social issue

Please describe how students in your course develop and demonstrate the civic competencies you selected.

We are utilizing the Associator tool in Canvas to collect student artifacts and evaluate civic competency attainment levels. Please use the Associator tool on your course Canvas page to select the civic competencies you believe your course addresses and connect associated assignments. If needed, you can follow these instructions. We encourage using Firefox or Chrome web browsers (not Safari) for best functioning of the Associator tool.

If you are unable or uncomfortable associating student artifacts in Canvas, please email cel@utah.edu.

Have you selected the civic competencies you believe your course addresses and connected associated assignments in the Associator tool on your course Canvas page?

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Additional Information

Any additional comments or information to share about the course?

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