Zoom Event: Filling the Practice-Theory Gap: Engaged Scholarship and the Imperative of the Scholar-Practitioner – Nov 12

Posted by Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE) on October 14, 2025

Join Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE) for its Professional Development Series – Filling the Practice-Theory Gap: Engaged Scholarship and the Imperative of the Scholar-Practitioner, facilitated by Patrick M. Green, EdD, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS), and Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago, on November 12th from 12:00 – 1:00 PM.

Engaged scholarship invites us to address the intersections of practice, community, theory, collaborative knowledge creation, research, and our identities as scholars, practitioners, and everything in between. This session will invite you to engage in reflection on how your identity as a scholar-practitioner may open up lines of inquiry for you to connect your practice to scholarship – and thus, fill the theory-practice gap. Drawing from your local experience as a source of knowledge, how does your context, experience, and practice contribute to your role as a scholar-practitioner? Have you considered potentially writing about your program, course, or campus initiative related to community engagement, pedagogy, experiential learning, high-impact practices, or generally the relationship between campuses and communities? How can you translate your own inquiry stances to scholarship goals that contribute to the field? Join this session to discuss how your practice connects to your ability to explore research and scholarship. Drawing from a practitioner-scholar inquiry framework, hear from Dr. Patrick M. Green, Editor of CUMU’s Metropolitan Universities Journal to connect your practice to your scholarship and work toward potential publication pathways.

Register.