Supporting community engaged teaching and scholarly practice

The Community Engagement Associates (CEA) program is a key funding support of community engagement at IUPUI. This program recognizes that the core of community engaged work is relational work—work that takes time to build and work that cannot be done by individuals alone. 

The CEA program is an employment program. Through an annual application process, community engaged faculty and staff may receive funding to employ students to provide support for courses, programs, or projects that advance the community engagement mission of IUPUI in any of the following ways:

• Is done in a mutually beneficial partnership with the community in both curricular and co-curricular spaces
• Is innovative, emergent, and forward thinking in the field of community engagement
• Supports the innovative use of community engagement pedagogy to deepen student learning (e.g., international service learning, community-based/engaged participatory research, online service learning, graduate level service learning)
• Advances or increases the knowledge base around civic learning, civic-mindedness, or community engagement more broadly
• Builds the capacity of departments/units to increase and to implement opportunities for community engagement or community engaged learning
• Is equity-minded in its principles towards community engagement

Application process

1. IUPUI faculty or staff complete and submit an application during the appropriate submission period. (Requests can be made for fall only, spring only, AY, or summer, depending on the time of year.)
2. Applications are reviewed according to our program funding priorities and criteria.
3. Faculty and staff who are funded then recruit student(s) to hire as their CEA(s) for the appropriate award period.

Hiring a CEA

The Center for Service and Learning oversees the hiring process for each CEA. Faculty/staff will recruit their CEAs (with support from CSL) and will submit the names of their preferred candidates via an online submission form.

Once the CSL has worked directly with the candidate through the hiring process, the CEA and the faculty/staff supervisor will receive an email indicating that all requirements are complete for the student to begin.

Once they are hired and begin working, CEAs will clock in hours via the Kuali timekeeping system. Supervisors must log in to Kuali every two weeks to approve the students' time sheets. 

Program expectations

The CEA program has expectations for both the faculty/staff supervisor and for the student. In order to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to grow and to develop through this program, supervisors and students will engage in a mentoring relationship guided by resources and modules within Canvas.

Supervisor expectations

1. View and complete the online orientation module in Canvas.
2. Utilizing prompts in Canvas, complete at least two reflection/coaching sessions with your student each semester. 
3. Complete the end of the award feedback and evaluation form.

Student expectations

1. View and complete the online orientation module in Canvas.
2. Complete one professional development module in Canvas per academic year.
3. Complete the end-of-award evaluation form and respond to end-of-award reflection prompts.
4. Meet with your mentor based on an agreed upon schedule.
5. Create an e-portfolio, including a showcase for the online Engaged Learning Showcase.

Note: all requirements are considered on the clock time that you may be paid.

Please direct any questions about the CEA program to Morgan Studer at mohughes@iupui.edu or (317) 278-3474.