CEC Faculty Support

The CEC offers faculty funding opportunities for those teaching SRX and those teaching a course that has a community engagement component. We offer the following awards, fellowships, and funding request opportunities open to all faculty.

Course Enhancement Awards (CEA)

9/$500 awards available per semester/ Limit One Award per Course

Fall Application Deadline: Monday, September 2nd, 2024
We will continue to accept applications until until we are out of awards. Awards will be given on a first come first serve basis

Spring Application Deadline: Monday, January 27th, 2025
We will continue to accept applications until we are out of awards. Awards will be given on a first come first serve basis

The CEA (Course Enhancement Awards) is available at the beginning of each semester to all faculty teaching an SRX course or non SRX that has a community engagement component. This award for $500 help with materials, guest speakers, event, and transportation needs.
 

CEA Application (SmarthSheet)

For questions or concerns please email our Office Manager, Jack Contreras. 

Whether you are  teaching a Social Responsibility Praxis (SRX) course or a course with a community engagement component, finding the right community partnership can feel challenging!

We have a list of wonderful community partners that would be happy to collaborate with you and your students. Check out our Community Partner's page for more details about our currently local partnerships! If you aren't sure how to start the conversation, meet with one of our staff to begin the introduction!

Community Partners

The CEC provides Translation and Interpretation funding available for application to all community members. This funding is provided on a first-come, first-basis. This funding intiaitvie is provided to ensure that everyone has access to essential resources and support. Don't miss the opportunity to apply for funding! For more information about funding, or if you are a translator interested in being added to our "Translator Database" visit our Translation & Interpretation Funding page. 

Translation & Interpretation Funding

If you are teaching an SRX course, a course with a community engagement component or if any of your students are volunteering within the community outside of class, the CEC has resources available to alleviate the financial burdens that may occur! Direct your students to our Student Resources page for more information on how to tap into these resources!

Student Resources

The Community Engagement Faculty Network was created in the Fall of 2009 (with the support of the Teaching and Learning Network) with the purpose to find ways for faculty members to better support one another in their community engagement efforts.

The network serves as a forum for support and sharing (including the exchange of ideas, syllabi, literature, best practices, funding opportunities, collaboration opportunities, tenure and promotion assistance as it relates to engaged teaching and research, etc). The network also enables faculty to harness power to more effectively lobby for increased institutional support for community engagement at Pitzer. The committee meets to reflect on, act, and share educational experiences in relation to community engaged education. It advocates for better educational practices and policies (for example, hiring of new faculty and tenure procedures as it applies to community engaged research and teachings). The network attempts to identify the kinds of resources needed in order for community engagement to thrive. Larger goals for inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional community engagement research, education, and policy have naturally evolved from convening such a group and have added to future strategic plans.

Among other initiatives, the network produced a report regarding how various social justice-minded notions of community engagement and social responsibility play out in pedagogy and scholarship so that serving tenure and promoted committee members who may be unfamiliar with this kind of approach become aware of what it involves and the kind of demonstrations of scholarship that can result from this particular practice. The report and conversations over many years with this committee helped in revising the tenure and promotion review policy language to better recognize and value public/activist/community-based scholarships, teachings, and service.

For more information contact Tricia Morgan.