About the event
Welcome to the CEI, we're so excited to have you here. Below you will find the schedule at a glance, some info about our speakers and links to all of our sessions.
Event Sponsors
Event Program
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Plenary Session
8:15-8:30 AM
Land Acknowledgement & Welcome from Partners in Campus and Community Engagement
Keynote Speaker
Bio: Dr. Christine Cress is Professor of Educational Leadership and Community Engagement at Portland State University. She directs a fully on-line Graduate Certificate and Masters Degree in Community-Based Learning. Using local and culturally-contextualized community engagement, she and her students work to leverage equity-centered collaborative change in hundreds of communities across the U.S. and internationally. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar, Cress has conducted service-learning workshops around the world and published over 80 academic manuscripts and 5 books.
8:30-8:50 AM
Opening keynote by Christine Cress - "From Farming Fields to Academic Fields: My Story as an Engaged Scholar"
BOB Talks:
9:00-9:20 AM
“Tackling Trauma”
"Building a Community of Grantmakers, Changemakers and Go-Getters"
Concurrent Session #1
9:30-10:30 AM
Partnering with Campuses: An Introduction to PICCE's Common Partnerships
An Introduction to Critical Service-Learning: What is it and why does it matter?
Institutionalizing Community Engagement: Benefits for Students and Communites
Concurrent Session #2
Building Reciprocal Campus-Community Partnerships: A Panel on the Benefits & Challenges of Campus-Community Partnerships
Incorporating Meaningful Reflection into your Engaged Teaching and Learning
Making Engagement Work in Challenging Classroom Environments
Keynote Speaker
12:00-12:30 PM
Q&A with Christine Cress - "Quick Thoughts on Problem-Solving Community Engagement Dilemmas: Ask Dr. Cress for a Brief Place-Based Suggestion/Strategy"
Concurrent Session #3
1:30-2:30 PM
Equity-Centered Community Engagement Excellence: Re-Imagining College-Community Reciprocity in Leveraging Learning, Empowerment, and Justice
Building Strong Partnerships and Assuring Community Trust
Concurrent Session #4
2:45-3:45 PM
Equity-Centered Community Engagement Excellence: Re-Imagining College-Community Reciprocity in Leveraging Learning, Empowerment, and Justice Reprised
School Partnerships and Engagement for Teacher Candidates
Thursday May 27, 2021
BOB Talks:
9:00-9:20 AM
“Saving Salish- Indigenous Language Revitalization as Generative Justice“
"Revitalizing Democracy in America: Starting at Home"
Concurrent Session #1
9:30-10:30 AM
Racial Equity for Non-Profits & Educators (Part 1)
Creating scientific outreach for student and community benefit
Engaged Partnerships improving outcomes for Children
Concurrent Session #2
10:45-11:45 AM
Racial Equity for Non-Profits & Educators (Part 2)
Critical Service-Learning Applied in Courses and Across the Curriculum
Concurrent Session #3
1:30-2:30 PM
PICCE Faculty Development Publishing your Engaged Scholarship
Notes from the Field - Cultivating Identities to Strengthen the Arts and Medicine
Engaging and Transforming Students through and Discipline-Based Project-Based Engagement
Concurrent Session #4
2:45-3:45 PM
Problem-Based Service-Learning
The Past and a Foreign Country: Service-Learning as a mechanism for Cultural Learning
Engaged learning as a strategy to improve public health
Presenters
Keynote Presenter: Christine Cress
Bio: Dr. Christine Cress is Professor of Educational Leadership and Community Engagement at Portland State University. She directs a fully on-line Graduate Certificate and Masters Degree in Community-Based Learning. Using local and culturally-contextualized community engagement, she and her students work to leverage equity-centered collaborative change in hundreds of communities across the U.S. and internationally. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar, Cress has conducted service-learning workshops around the world and published over 80 academic manuscripts and 5 books
Racial Equity Training by Tara ’Qallaq’ Ramos
Bio: Tara ’Qallaq’ Ramos is Iñupiaq. She was born and raised in Spokane and is a former survivor of the educational system, the juvenile justice system, and the child welfare system. She has spent the majority of her career in the nonprofit world working on racial equity in the very systems she survived and in 2020 she opened her own consulting firm called Redfox Consulting to help organizations across the spectrum build their cultural and racial awareness. She is a mother to 3 beautiful children, she loves to ride her horses, and she loves to to laugh with her husband.
B.O.B. Talks Presenters May 26th
Heather Hamlin, Women Helping Women Fund
"Building a Community of Grantmakers, Changemakers, and Go-Getters"
Ryan Oelrich, Priority Spokane
“Tackling Trauma”
B.O.B. Talks Presenters May 27th
Bert Emerson, Whitworth University
“Revitalizing Democracy in America: Starting at Home”
(left)LaRae Wiley, Executive Director, Salish School of Spokane
(right)Christopher Parkin, Principal, Salish School of Spokane
“Saving Salish- Indigenous Language Revitalization as Generative Justice“