Community and Workplace Partnerships

Connecting community and industry partners with faculty and students, the Community and Workplace Partnerships (CWP) team integrates experiential learning opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom.

Our team can help you navigate the what, when and how of course-based partnerships at Laurier. Whether you already have a placement or project in mind, or you are in the early stages of thinking about how to best connect your organization’s needs with Laurier students, we’ll work with you to determine the best model of engagement, match you with an appropriate course, and facilitate the experience between you, faculty, and students.

“It was an honour and a pleasure to engage with such vibrant and enthusiastic students from Laurier. We hope they understand that they have made a real difference.”

Angee Turnbull, Director of Philanthropy, Lansdowne Children’s Centre.

Contribute to Our Students' Experiential Learning

Benefits of a Partnership

For Our Students

Applying learning in community and workplace settings helps students to strengthen their understanding of course concepts.
Exposure to different types of organizations and roles through experiential learning helps students explore careers.
Through critical reflection, students gain self-awareness and grow both personally and professionally.
Students hone their skills and competencies and build connections making them real-world ready.

For Your Organization

There are also benefits to your organization when you partner with us. Take advantage of the following perks:

Access to the services and skills of university students.
Access to related theories and concepts students are learning about in the classroom.
Allows for program and service enhancements and expansions.
Opportunity to collaborate with post-secondary researchers and practitioners.
Opportunity to contribute to the development of future leaders.

Our Year in Review

We invite you to read our 2022/23 annual report for department highlights and a summary of our evaluation data.

CWP experiences.

Community Service-Learning experiences.

In-course/program workplace projects and experiences.

"The Squad Box project allowed me to apply course content in a practical way. As someone who wants to pursue marketing as a career, I would say that this immersive learning experience really provided me with the professional skills to be successful in the marketing workforce."

Alexia Fantin (BA '20)

Become a Laurier Partner

Learn about the four types of CWP experiences that you can recruit students for:

Community Service-Learning: These opportunities are built on values or reciprocity, empathy, and social justice, where our students work primarily with non-profit and public-sector partners.
Professional inquiry: Short-term community or workplace exposure opportunities provided to students, allowing them to observe, engage and ask questions.
In-class projects: Workplace or simulated-workplace projects such as real-world case studies, research activities or events carried out by Laurier students for your organization.
Internships: An intensive, longer-term workplace engagement, often discipline-specific and directly supervised by the employer.