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Design Process

FRI-C04: From Classroom to Community: Seeding Long-term Impact Through Collaborative Design

Friday, September 18, 2026
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM PT
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Explore the role of collaborative, community-engaged work, completed in an academic setting, to model relationships that can carry forward into the professional field. Panelists will assess the unique position that teaching can fill to complement practice, support training, and progress innovative projects that might not otherwise move forward.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Describe how academic-community partnerships can offer shared benefits, growth, and new opportunities for students, faculty, and communities.
  • Explore three different models of academic-community collaboration and how the partnerships moved ideas from speculative work to tangible implementation.
  • Analyze the realities and boundaries of using the teaching setting to advance community initiatives, ranging from specific timeline constraints to campus or community policies to professional ethics in community engagement.
  • Identify grants, programs, and initiatives that have enabled academic work to take root and seed impactful community change.