CSCCE Event Calendar

CSCCE hosts monthly community calls and weekly social hours as part of the programming for our community of practice. This calendar additionally shows one-off events and online trainings offered by the center.

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Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F)

This eight-week course is designed to offer new and existing community managers a core set of actionable skills and strategies. Participants meet twice a week, with lecture-style content interspersed with discussion and project work. Our fall offering of Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 12 September until Thursday, 31 … Continue reading "Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F)"

Mini-Workshop | Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings

Meetings and virtual events often involve asking attendees to make decisions. Decision-making invokes numerous considerations, including how to negotiate power dynamics, empower everyone to express their opinions, and actually reach the outcome(s) you desire. In this Mini-workshop, you will explore four broad decision-making modes (authority rule, consultation, voting, and consensus) and then use the PACT … Continue reading "Mini-Workshop | Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings"

Mini-Workshop | Selecting supplementary tools for virtual meetings and events

Community managers regularly use online tools to support the needs of community members in virtual meetings and events. With so many possible needs to solve for, and so many potential online tools to use – how can you quickly determine which tools to explore and then use? In this Mini-workshop, you will apply CSCCE’s BASICS … Continue reading "Mini-Workshop | Selecting supplementary tools for virtual meetings and events"

CSCCE QSS Session | Facilitating stakeholder meetings

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be focusing on facilitating … Continue reading "CSCCE QSS Session | Facilitating stakeholder meetings"

CSCCE Community Call: Annual Community Potluck!

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Join us for our annual community potluck - an opportunity to connect with community managers in STEM as we wind down for the end of the year. Join us on Zoom

Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations

In this first of a two part series of two-hour workshops, participants will explore dimensions of team readiness for large, multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives and how a team readiness assessment can be used to identify the stage of their project and which areas they need to address as a priority. By the end of this workshop, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Preparing for large-scale collaborations"

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25W)

This eight-week course is designed to offer new and existing community managers a core set of actionable skills and strategies. Participants meet twice a week, with lecture-style content interspersed with discussion and project work. Our Winter offering of Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF24F) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Friday, 17 January until Friday, 7 … Continue reading "Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25W)"

Content Design (CODE25W)

Content Design (CODE) is a six-week course that introduces a strategic approach to designing and creating community-engaged content that energizes and inspires your community members. Our winter offering of Content Design (CODE25W) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 28 January until Friday, 7 March 2025. The key dates are:  Tuesday sessions: 28 January; … Continue reading "Content Design (CODE25W)"

Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations

Prerequisite: Preparing for large-scale collaborations (Part 1) In this second workshop of a two part series, participants will debrief the team readiness surveys they drafted in workshop one. They will explore how to deploy the survey and how to report the results back to the community and determine next steps. Then, using a framework describing … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Designing for large-scale collaborations"

CSCCE QSS Session | Topic TBD

Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90 minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This is an invitation-only event. Find out more about … Continue reading "CSCCE QSS Session | Topic TBD"

Mini-workshop | Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events

With virtual work increasingly the norm, community managers are often tasked with convening and facilitating virtual meetings. In this Mini-workshop, you will discuss the opportunities and challenges of virtual meetings and explore the “Making a PACT” framework (Purpose, Attendees, Community management, Tech tools) for effective meeting design. You will apply the framework directly to example scenarios so that … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Making a PACT for engaging virtual meetings and events"

Mini-workshop | Creating core values statements

Core values statements describe the values underpinning how community members would like to interact, and include a definition of each value as well as examples of what they look like in action. Core values statements are most effective when they are co-created with community members and are specific to the community, rather than re-using values … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Creating core values statements"