The addressing wicked issues through community-engaged scholarship initiative takes a deep dive into some of the most critical issues threatening our communities and explores how we—higher education community engagement professionals, practitioners, and scholars—can make a difference.
Each year, participants will engage in a series of webinars and discussions that explore how knowledge about a particular issue is being generated and how people can come together to put that knowledge to good use—creating local solutions to these wicked problems. This series is jointly hosted by Campus Compact and the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES).
2026 Series: Our Climate S& Our Health
Session 1: Setting the Stage: Intersection between Climate Change and Health
Session 2: Research & Public Problem Solving
Session 3: Community-Engaged Teaching & Learning
Session 4: Student Civic Engagement
Session 5: Closing Session—Climate Hope
Wicked Issues Fellow
Rebecca Forsythe
Rebecca Forsythe is a PhD student at Colorado State University, specializing in environmental sociology and inequality, with an emphasis on environmental justice and natural resource governance. Inspired by her upbringing on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island and her summers on Swans Island, Maine, Rebecca became fascinated by the distinct social and cultural patterns within coastal and island communities, including environmental cooperation. Her dissertation explores formal and informal cooperation in the Maine lobster fishery as a model for cooperative natural resource governance in coastal natural resource-dependent communities. She currently serves as a Diana Wall Sustainability Fellow and a graduate fellow for CSU’s Climate Adaptation Partnership. Rebecca is also a two-time alumna of Campus Compact’s VISTA program - and an avid scholar of community-engaged teaching and learning.