Community Engaged Pedagogy Fund

Program

Brandeis faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars in any discipline who center community engaged pedagogies in their undergraduate or graduate courses at Brandeis are invited to apply to the COMPACT Community Engaged Pedagogy Fund. The two grants available through this fund support recipients in bringing ethical, reciprocal and sustainable community engagement into Brandeis classrooms.

Opportunities

COMPACT Pedagogy Project Grant

This grant offers up to $3,000 in funds for community engaged research or creative projects that will be conducted in a Brandeis course. Applications for Spring 2025 classes have closed.

Community Engaged Pedagogy Mini-Grants

This grant offers up to $500 in funding to bring community partners to campus as guest speakers in a class (e.g., honoraria), to bring students off campus for a specific community engaged project or event or to conduct small-scale community engaged research or creative projects in a Brandeis course. Grant applications for AY 2024-25 are being accepted on a rolling basis, for as long as funds remain available.

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To view past grant winners please see below:

2023-24 Recipients

2022-23 Recipients

Contact

Please send any questions about the Community Engaged Pedagogy Fund and/or the application process to compact@brandeis.edu.

We also encourage faculty to consider applying for Teaching Improvement, Experimentation, and Research (TIER) Grants and/or external funding. COMPACT staff will be glad to meet with you to discuss these opportunities.

Community Engaged Pedagogy Grant Recipients, 2024-25

David Sherman

Project Grant

Project Title: "Writing for Publication"

Course: Writing for Publication (a course at the Suffolk County HOC)

Community Partner: Suffolk County House of Correction, Education Dept

Sally Warner

Project Grant

Project Title: "Our Local Waterways: Community Collaboration with the Charles River Watershed Association"

Course: Our Local Waterways (ENVS 122a)

Community Partner: Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) 

Gowri Vijayakumar

Mini Grant

Project Title: "Conducting Oral History Interviews with Members of the South Asian Workers' Center (SAWC)"

Course: South Asian Diasporas (Sociology 126a)

Community Partner: Jyoti Sinha / South Asian Workers' Center

Neil Swidey

Project Grant

Project Title: "Building on the Brandeis Journalism-Brookline.News Partnership"

Course: Reinventing Journalism for Local News (AMST/JOUR 109b)

Community Partner: Brookline.News