ORIENTATION WORKSHOP: WINTER 2020

Thursday, December 11th, 2019 | 11:15AM-2PM | Arts & Convocation Hall

ALL Community Partners and Instructors who are participating in Community Service-Learning for the Winter 2020 term are invited and encouraged to attend this introductory Orientation Workshop. 

This is an opportunity to meet the Instructor/s and Community Partners you will be working with, discuss your projects/courses, learn about CSL best practices and ask questions. You will learn from experienced community partners, instructors, and program staff about how to make CSL successful.

Instructors, please bring along a device to connect to your e-Classes.  David and Jay will be there to assist you with any trouble shooting around CSL within e-Classes, and for consultations with your courses more generally. 

A light lunch will be served. We hope you can join us! REGISTER HERE

*Note: We encourage attendees to use the LRT if possible.

SPRING 2020 COURSE: CSL 350/360 Global Service-Learning & Solidarity in Nicaragua

We are excited to once again announce the offering of a global service-learning course in Nicaragua. In May 2020 CSL students will spend three weeks at UAlberta preparing for the trip. In June they will travel to Estelí, Managua and surrounds to live with host families, work on solidarity projects, learn from local community educators, and complete critical reflection activities.

Interested? Questions? Please contact Erin Kelly

Right to Exist: Right to Resist Conference

CSL Community Partners Migrante AB and the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights are co-hosting a day-long conference in honour of International Human Rights and Migrants Day. Join us in conversation about critical human rights challenges we face as a global community while working to mobilize and organize across our communities. In the evening there will be a social event featuring a wide array of performers.

We welcome all members of the community to these free events; light refreshments will be provided.

Conference: 9AM-5PM, St. John's Cultural Centre (10611 110 Ave)

Social: 7-11PM, Nipisiy House (116 St & 85 Ave)

Kelsi Barkway, HUM 101 Coordinator

In December I will be leaving the University of Alberta and moving to Toronto for a post-doctoral fellowship. I am excited for this new opportunity, but it will be difficult to leave the wonderful CSL community I have been so lucky to be a part of during my time here. I began volunteering with the Humanities 101 program during the first year of my PhD and it has been a privilege to continue to be a part of this program each year. Humanities 101 is a truly unique learning community. Meeting each week with people who are passionate about learning is a rare and exciting opportunity and a reminder of the importance of free and accessible spaces for adult education. CSL and Humanities 101 have been places where I see examples of how I want to be in the world modeled each day by the people I have been lucky enough to work and learn with. Thank you.

Teagan de Seguin, CSL Student Intern                                             

As we near the end of the term I am reflecting back on everything I have learned throughout my internship with CSL. I have had the opportunity to meet many amazing CSL students, instructors, and community partners. This experience has re-energized me and renewed my faith in the nonprofit sector to make positive social change. I am inspired by the many dedicated individuals I have met working in community and I hope to continue my journey of community engagement beyond my time with CSL. Thank you to the CSL team for supporting me throughout this internship, and for your ongoing dedication to connect students with our community.

We are now wrapping up the 2019 fall semester of the many Humanities 101 programs operating this term. It has been an exciting semester that included the creation of new classes and the continuation of classes that have been running for many years! The Humanities 101 course at Wings of Providence wrapped up with a graduation party on Wednesday, November 20th. The theme this semester was “Women and Land” and we learned collaboratively with faculty guest speakers from across faculties at the UAlberta. The Tuesday evening Humanities 101 class explored the topic of land from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, drama, astrophysics, mineralogy, history, and anthropology. We are celebrating the learning that has happened this semester at our graduation party on Tuesday, December 10th and we will continue with our theme of “Land” when classes start up again in the winter semester. We began a new Humanities 101 alumni class this semester for long-term learners with the program. We have been meeting twice a month and have been attending FGSR’s “On the Edge Emerging Speakers Series” happening at the Edmonton Public Library’s Strathcona Branch. On Tuesday, December 10th we will join the Tuesday evening Humanities 101 class on campus to celebrate our term of learning. Humanities 101 has also been partnering with Capital Region Housing to run a drop-in style course at Amity House. We will be holding our last class of the term on December 6th and will then take a winter break until February.

Carol Cooper, Fruits of Sherbrooke

In this month’s Partnership Spotlight, we would like to honour a long-time CSL partner and champion who recently lost her battle with cancer.  Carol Cooper was a co-founder of Fruits of Sherbrooke, a grassroots initiative that began with an idea to reduce food waste in her neighbours’ backyards.  What started as a passing thought while walking through her Sherbrooke neighbourhood one day, has grown into a thriving non-profit that rescues unwanted fruit from the backyards of local Edmontonians and turns that fruit into jams, jellies, and sauces which are sold at local farmers markets and in local stores.  Money from sales is invested back into the work of Fruits of Sherbrooke, enabling them to deliver workshops for community members and to produce apple sauce snacks for the e4c school lunch program. Over the past seven years, Carol and her team have worked with upwards of 100 CSL students, providing them with opportunities to learn about local food security and sustainability, how to can and process locally grown produce, and that you can grow a seed of an idea into a mighty organization rooted firmly in community.  Carol’s legacy lives on in the ongoing work of Fruits of Sherbrooke, as well as through all those, including CSL staff, instructors and students, whose lives she touched with her kindness, her humour, her wisdom and her humility. Thank-you, Carol; you will be missed.

PARTNERS IN EDUCATION (PIE) PROGRAM

Partners in Education (PIE) aims to acknowledge the valuable contributions and learning opportunities community partners offer CSL. PIE supports and enhances the capacity of individuals and organizations that contribute to CSL’s curricular program each term. Available in the Fall and Winter terms, PIE provides space for individuals from non-profit partner organizations to be guest students in a CSL Designated Course or courses offered through the Faculty of Extension.

*PLEASE NOTE:

• Classes are considered an audit and are not for credit.  
• Admission into the course occurs after the Add/Drop deadline. 

If you are interested in applying for the PIE program, please submit an application by Friday, December 6th, 2019.

PATHWAYS: A Journey through the non-profit sector

Pathways allows UAlberta CSL students to experience and reflect on a rich and varied set of experiences with Edmonton community organizations. Pathways is a journey through the non-profit sector composed of three integrated parts:

1. Certificate in Community Engagement and Service-Learning
2. Non-Profit Board Internship Program
3. Paid 14-week summer internship with a local organization (5 internships will be available in the spring/summer 2020) 

Info session for students (FREE PIZZA!), Arts & Convocation Hall: Wednesday, Dec. 4, 12-1PM

CSL Community Partners who are interested in hosting a CSL student for a paid 14-week summer internship from May to August 2020, will receive a 50% wage subsidy. Learn more HERE.

Questions? Please contact Jill Flaman