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Community Engagement for the American University of Beirut as a Frontliner: Lessons Learnt from Lebanon

Thursday, April 14, 2022
9:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Watch the workshop below!

The CommUniversity 2022 workshop series, organized by OSUN and the Talloires Network, showcases university civic engagement approaches (frameworks, strategies, methods, and practices) that have been shown to produce favorable results and that represent a standard suitable for adoption or adaptation.

These presentations are meant to prepare graduate students and faculty to apply for OSUN Engaged Research Funds, which support research tied to long-term, sustainable community partnerships.

Rabih Shibli is the Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) and a lecturer in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Under his directorship, CCECS has been awarded the Most Civically Engaged Campus by Ma'an Alliance 2015, MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship 2016, SXSW Learn by Design Honorary Award 2018, and the Fritz Redlich Global Mental Health and Human Rights Award 2018.

Shibli has conceptualized and implemented community projects and authored publications reflecting the process of bridging developmental planning and experiential learning. He will discuss CCECS' role in leveraging operational research, campus community, and socially responsive partnerships to tackle the most pressing societal challenges facing Lebanon, and beyond. CCECS has an overarching agenda to integrate developmental planning aimed at empowering the marginalized with experiential learning aimed for transformative change. CCECS’s operational framework is reflected in 5 cross-cutting tenets:

-          Community Action Program (CAP)

-          General Education through Civic Engagement

-          Community Development Projects (CDP)

-          Refugees Track

-          University Consortium

The CommUniversity 2022 workshop series, organized by OSUN and the Talloires Network, showcases university civic engagement approaches (frameworks, strategies, methods, and practices) that have been shown to produce favorable results and that represent a standard suitable for adoption or adaptation.

Other workshops in the series feature leaders in the field of university civic engagement and run each month from February 2022 through July 2022, highlighting innovative community-university research in communities in the United States, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ghana, and Austria.

Learn more about the Engaged Research Fund grants here.
Learn more details about the workshops here.

For more information or questions, please email talloiresnetwork@tufts.edu.