Kyle Nelson from the Centre for Community Engaged Learning shares his experiences in fostering reciprocal and regenerative partnerships that serve community partners priorities and deepen student engagement and learning.

1. The Centre for Community
Engaged Learning
Kyle Nelson – Officer of Community Engaged
Learning
Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the
Centre for Community Engaged Learning

2. UBC’s Centre for Community
Engaged Learning
• We provide strategic and operational
support to three key stakeholder groups:
UBC faculty, UBC students, and organizations
outside the University
• We support curricular (course-based) and
co-curricular (Trek, Reading Week, Grants)
engagement in community-based
experiential learning
• We work with ~60-80 faculty and ~4500
students per year, and have worked with
~400 community organizations

3. Components of Community-Based
Experiential Learning (CBEL)
• Address community-identified
priorities
• Apply (disciplinary) knowledge
• Recognize community as knowledge
holders and co-educators
• Engage in ongoing critical reflection
bridging theory and experience

4. what do the students do? (55-65 projects annually)
50% Research focused (literature reviews, surveys etc.)
30% Education and awareness raising activities (workshops,
demonstrations and capacity building events)
20% Tool and resource creation (planting plans, nutrition
assessments, healthy eating guides)
650 students X @12 hours = +7500 hours/year

5. Who do we partner with?
50% Vancouver School Board Partners
40% micro to small not for profits
5% small businesses or social enterprises
5% quasi-governmental

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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