Carleton University launches Community Engagement Website

Dear Members of the Carleton Community,

Today, Carleton is pleased to unveil the Community Engagement website at http://www.carleton.ca/communityengagement.

The website, designed in consultation with the university’s many community partners, provides a remarkable record of Carleton’s projects and relationships with others. It is also a venue to facilitate those relationships and encourage new ones between Carleton and the community.

The site has six primary areas of interest identified by the community. Within those areas, there are a variety of links to Carleton departments and programs, as well as community organizations.

A special feature of the website includes a “Community Engagement Bulletin Board” – an interactive tool where groups or individuals can post information about research, event, volunteer opportunities or simply post questions.

Carleton has a long history of engaging community partners in research, co-operative education and volunteerism. This website is a way of building on that.

This initiative has been months in the making and will continue to be a work in progress. An advisory group made up of Carleton faculty and staff and community representatives will oversee the review of the website on a semi-annual basis and will recommend any necessary updates or changes.

I want to thank President Roseann O’Reilly Runte, the Community Engagement Pedagogy Working Group and our many community partners for their support of this project. The assistance of CCS and the Department of University Communications is also appreciated.

I encourage you to visit the new website, use it and send it to your contacts and colleagues in the community.

Sincerely,
Katherine Graham
Senior Adviser, Office of the Provost