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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CSCCE QSS Session | Guiding your community members towards a shared purpose

Over the lifetime of a community, there are often transitional moments when, as community manager, you might need to re-assess or re-align members around your community’s shared purpose. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we’ll discuss ways of synthesizing feedback into meaningful content and programming, facilitating generative conversations through scaffolded activities, and co-creating new materials … Continue reading "CSCCE QSS Session | Guiding your community members towards a shared purpose"

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF)

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 Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25F) will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 4 September until Thursday, … Continue reading "Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF)"

Nurturing Online Communities (NOC)

Building and nurturing a community in an online environment comes with specific needs and challenges. This seven-week course is designed with community managers of scientific communities of practice in mind, and will explore a variety of social science claims about how people behave in online communities to inform actions that you might take to support … Continue reading "Nurturing Online Communities (NOC)"

Mini-workshop | Working with volunteers

Community managers are often trying to create spaces that support group learning and self-expression to build something members of the community couldn’t create alone – and this almost always includes incorporating volunteer contributions. In this Mini-workshop, we’ll explore common community manager concerns related to working with volunteers. We’ll discuss how to flip the narrative from … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | Working with volunteers"

Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists

This two hour session provides an overview of the concepts and approaches scientists can use in managing their collaborative projects. You will leave the session able to describe what a project is and the relationship between projects and operations. We’ll also discuss the three types of project and their relationship to uncertainty and complexity. Finally, … Continue reading "Mini-workshop | An introduction to project management for scientists"

Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB)

This six-session bootcamp intensive offers a grounding in the basics of project management, tailored to apply to specific STEM contexts. This training draws upon a core text, The Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, with materials contextualized for STEM scenarios and applied to custom STEM case studies by CSCCE staff. Over the … Continue reading "Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB)"

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.