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Our biennial conference celebrates the significant achievements that stem from partnerships between university and community and explores some of the contemporary challenges of university-community engagement and service-learning.
Since 2019, our two institutions have worked together to share information, lessons learned, successful practices and innovative ideas to deepen engagement with our respective communities. In doing so, we have furthered our collaboration with each other and strengthened our institutions' community engagement practice. This collaboration, coordinated by ACU Engagement and DePaul's Steans Center, thus far has resulted in three conferences, student exchanges and a study tour, and extensive professional learning encounters
Presented in partnership with DePaul University, Chicago.
In the fourth ACU and DePaul Conference on Community Engagement and Service-Learning: Preparing Educated Citizens during Uncertain Times we focus on community engagement and service-learning as activities that can engage our students for a lifetime of actions that will strengthen our democracies and serve the common good.
During the conference, we will consider how community engagement and service-learning can be enacted in a way that is politically engaged and impactful with university, community, and governments. This focus is undertaken with the recognition of uncertain times characterised by political polarisation and rising tensions within our national contexts.
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Our 2023 conference took place over three days in Chicago. It aimed to foster shared learning and innovation in community engagement. Participants were able to explore diverse topics in community service and engagement, focusing on building stronger relationships and sharing effective practices.
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Our 2021 conference aimed to explore the current ‘state of play’ for universities in responding to the challenges and opportunities for service-learning and university-community engagement in a ‘post-COVID’ world while taking the time to reflect on the responses and learnings from the efforts of the field during the pandemic.
Learn moreOur 2019 conference aimed to celebrate the significant achievements that stem from partnerships between university and community and explore some of the contemporary challenges of university-community engagement and service-learning at the two largest English-speaking Catholic universities in the world.
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Learn moreDiscover community engagement at ACU and learn how you can get involved, as a student, staff member or community partner.
Learn moreMeet the ACU Engagement team and learn more about our mission to provide meaningful community engagement opportunities.
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