Past Events

DICE Network Quarterly Meeting

In response to a need heard last fall, Collaboratory has launched the Data for Institutional Community Engagement (DICE) Network - an affinity group focused on community engagement tracking, assessment, and evaluation in higher education. ...

Closing the Loop with Faculty

Working with faculty and staff to ensure their work is represented in Collaboratory can be a struggle! Join us for the first Coffee Break of 2023, where the University of Maryland-Baltimore will share how they approach gathering data, generating buy-in, and closing the loop with engaged faculty and staff. Come share and ask questions about various strategies for engaging with faculty and staff. ...

Carnegie Networking Call (Jan 2023)

Join the Carnegie Elective Classifications team at the American Council on Education (ACE) and Collaboratory for monthly peer-to-peer networking calls to facilitate connections and conversations among institutions. ...

Carnegie Community of Practice: Section 11 of the Application

Collaboratory is hosting and facilitating a national community of practice focused on leveraging the Elective Classification framework as an opportunity to recruit allies and generate buy-in for community engagement on your campus, and to build a comprehensive portrait of your engagement. Each month we will address a new section of the application, sequentially following the framework. ...

December Coffee Break

Joining us for December’s Coffee Break will be two fantastic Collaboratory Administrators: Ann Schulte from CSU - Chico and Christina Ngo from Arizona State.Both administrators have unique perspectives on how to spread the good word about Collaboratory and communicate a unified story to maximize, while celebrating the good work of engaged activities and people throughout their respective campuses. ...

Carnegie Community of Practice: Section 10 of the Application

Collaboratory is hosting and facilitating a national community of practice focused on leveraging the Elective Classification framework as an opportunity to recruit allies and generate buy-in for community engagement on your campus, and to build a comprehensive portrait of your engagement. Each month we will address a new section of the application, sequentially following the framework. ...

Advancing Campus-Community Partnerships through Data: Trends and Reflections from an AASCU Cohort

This webinar will share progress from 33 institutions who participated in a national cohort facilitated by AASCU’s American Democracy Project and Collaboratory.  In this webinar, the cohort will share concrete data trends and patterns and a panel of institutions will reflect on how this data has helped them deepen work with community partners and identify the most effective community partnerships and models to address pressing issues in their communities.  ...

November Coffee Break

For the November Coffee Break, we welcome UNC-Greensboro’s Emily Janke to share some Collaboratory stories in more advanced years of using this tool. Emily Janke serves as the Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, as well as an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies. Forefronting the work of the Public Good and institutional reciprocal community engagement, she is a renowned scholar in the field. This Coffee Break will focus on the favorite Collaboratory topic: Data Use. Building on Emily’s expertise as a Collaboratory co-founder, this will be a dialogue exchanging different perspectives, ideas, and use cases surrounding data. ...

Collaboratory Scholars

Collaboratory Scholars provides students a network beyond their campus and a space to explore new ways of thinking about higher education community engagement. Together we foster the next generation of community-engaged scholars, professionals, and alumni who have a greater understanding of and appreciation for the public mission of higher education and its role within society. ...

Bridging and Visualizing Institutional K-12 Engagement Data with Collaboratory

Universities’ community outreach in the K-12 sector contributes to a state's economic and educational development, ensuring educational quality and better preparing K-12 students to be competitive in the ever-evolving job market. This webinar will highlight how a team at Indiana University (IU) is assessing K-12 outreach impact with Collaboratory data. The team will discuss how they have created and leveraged interactive visualizations of Collaboratory data through Power BI, Kumu, and GIS to assess and analyze IU’s K-12 engagement across the state of Indiana. ...

Carnegie Community of Practice: Section 9 of the Application

Collaboratory is hosting and facilitating a national community of practice focused on leveraging the Elective Classification framework as an opportunity to recruit allies and generate buy-in for community engagement on your campus, and to build a comprehensive portrait of your engagement. Each month we will address a new section of the application, sequentially following the framework. ...

Collaboratory Social Hour

The Collaboratory Social Hour is an opportunity for Collaboratory colleagues to come together and chat casually. Bring a cup of coffee or a cocktail to this virtual social hour and take a step back from the day-to-day busyness of our work. Feel free to discuss our shared work from community engagement topics to Collaboratory use cases, ask questions of others, and continue to build relationships throughout this network. ...