Recognizing faculty who have developed community-engaged learning, leadership or research activities

Cornell alumni Gerald Robinson ’54, Margot Robinson ’55, Robert Appel ’53 and Helen Appel ’55 established the Robinson-Appel award to recognize and honor undergraduate students who have had significant involvement in community engagement by providing support for their projects, which address a community’s social needs or problems.

The Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Facilitator/TA Program prepares graduate and undergraduate students to support (i.e., TA, CA) faculty-taught community-engaged learning (CEL) courses and programs and to enhance community partners’ CEL experiences with the university.   




The program welcomes energetic, creative and curious students looking to contribute to higher education’s public impact while deepening their own knowledge of CEL and honing their facilitation skills. After completing the program, participants will be prepared to serve as teaching assistants, course assistants, reflection facilitators for CEL courses and programs or support roles at Cornell and beyond.  

The Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award is given each year to a Cornell student for making a remarkable, creative, specific contribution to the spirit of humanity.

Get ready for an interactive reflective session where you will engage with dynamic tools and activities that will help you reflect on three core dimensions of cultural humility. We’ll explore various ways for you to cultivate cultural humility with your students including skill-building exercises for team-building, effective communication across differences and techniques for adapting to diverse community contexts.

Join us for a lively, conversation-driven workshop where we’ll spotlight strategies for developing reciprocal and mutually beneficial partnerships that facilitate students’ learning and experience in learning from and with the community. We will explore asset-based approaches and tools to enhance collaboration and address public issues together.

In this session, you will recognize your role as a leader in community-engaged learning and discover ways to inspire and enact change in the community and the institution. You will explore tools and strategies to facilitate change and determine what it means to be an engaged leader focusing on building relational trust. With the tools and models provided, you will also identify challenges in your institution and create a plan for addressing them in order to build capacity and promote community-engaged learning within the institution and the wider community.