INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORT SERVICES
SINCE RECEIVING THE CARNEGIE CLASSIFICATION FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN JANUARY 2020, UW TACOMA FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS REMAIN FOCUSED ON MAKING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT A DEEPER, MORE PERVASIVE, BETTER INTEGRATED, AND SUSTAINED CAMPUS EFFORT. 16
2021 FACULTY FELLOWS PROGRAM
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (COP)
To support faculty members in initiating/expanding
The basic premise of CoPs is co-thinking, co-learning,
their community engagement efforts, the Faculty
and co-production of knowledge. Based on topics
Fellows Program provides process for faculty
suggested by our community partners at a Spring
collaborator groups to apply for funding for
2019 virtual meeting, we invited faculty, staff, and
expansion and building communities of practice on
community members to five thematic CoPs: housing,
campus. In 2021, four new fellowship awards were
food security, social/emotional learning, immigration,
granted for the January-December 2021 time period.
and indigenous knowledge. Through a series of
More details and the topic of the four fellowship
meeting, each CoP will identify research topics and
awards can be found in the Appendix.
projects of mutual interest. Office of Community
The Faculty Fellows Program provides funding up
Partnership support each CoP, as needed.
to $10,000 to each cohort of faculty who seek to
STAFFING
develop and integrate publicly engaged activities with
Over the course of the two years, OCP has continued
teaching or scholarships, for the public good. One
its efforts to build internal infrastructure to support
of the primary goals is to establish communities of
the work of our faculty, staff, and students. Since
practice that focus on existing and new partnerships
March 2020, staff pivoted to an online/remote work
and actively include community partners in their
structure due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Today,
ongoing co-learning and co-production processes.
the OCP is staffed by an Executive Administrator, Program Coordinator, and Technical Project Manager. In January of 2021, a Marketing & Outreach Intern was hired to enhance community engagement outreach, marketing, storytelling, and research.
