E13: Sustainable, Community-Focused Approaches to Research and Education

Watch this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH7Qn519mpM

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired by a discussion on how our college collaborates with our larger community for training and research. Our guests are Megan Shapka, Associate Dean for the Centre for Applied Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Jason Donkersgoed, Director for Business and Development. Our discussion topics include:  

- the Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals), 

- community focused programming (including summer camps and tiny homes),  

- systems thinking and the systems approach,  

- corporate training,

- the research and development needs of our local community,  

- Strategic doing (https://strategicdoing.net/),  

- trust triangles, and  

- living campuses.  

If you’d like to get in touch with Megan or anybody at our Centre for Applied Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, use the contact information on their webpage here: https://lethbridgecollege.ca/departments/centre-for-applied-research-and-innovation  

If you’d like to register for, or learn more about, our Continuing Education Program, go here: https://lethbridgecollege.ca/departments/corporate-and-continuing-education/continuing-education  

If you’d like to know more about Lethbridge College’s Integrated Agriculture Technology Centre, take a look at their website: https://iatc.ca/  
 
Jason references Dr. Frances Frei’s TEDTalk “How to Build (and rebuild) Trust.” Here’s the link: https://www.ted.com/talks/frances_frei_how_to_build_and_rebuild_trust?language=en  

Megan references Dawson College’s Living Campus. Here’s a link: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/sustainable/living-campus/