City School is an innovative initiative for Mohawk College, which means our research is an important way to support our work.
City School Research and Reports
The City School Mobile Classroom: Evaluating a Response Method to Improving Access to Education
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Status: Completed 2020
"Teaching is a learning experience": Exploring Faculty Engagement with Low-Income Adult Learners in a College-Community Partnership Program (2020)
Canadian Journal of Education
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The City School Partnership: A Community-Built Response to Improving Access to Education
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Read the Final Report (opens PDF - 804 KB)
Status: Completed 2019
Bringing College Classrooms to the Community: Promoting Post-Secondary Access for Low-Income Adults Through Neighbourhood-Based College Courses (2019)
Canadian Journal of Higher Education
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Jobs for Locals at the Hamilton Port: Building accessible, demand-led postsecondary pathways
Funded by the Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation
Status: Completed 2018
Pathway Transfer to Postsecondary: Exploring the Connection between Tuition Free Credit Courses and Postsecondary Studies
Funded by the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer
Status: Completed 2017
Community Reports
- Fall 2018 Community Report (opens PDF - 3.4 MB)
- Summer 2018 Community Report
- Winter 2018 Community Report (opens PDF - 875 KB)
- 2017 Annual Report (opens PDF - 685 KB)
- Fall 2017 Community Report (opens PDF - 856 KB)
- Fall 2016 Community Report (opens PDF - 221 KB)
Lead Researcher, Alan Bourke, Ph.D: Alan is a Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Mohawk College where he teaches a variety of courses in the social sciences and humanities. He has an MA in sociology from the National University of Ireland (Cork) and a PhD in sociology from York University (Toronto). He has published work in international academic journals and with a Canadian Press in areas of community engagement, higher education, and social inequality.
City School in the News
- Breaking down barriers with mobile classrooms (opens new window)
- President Ron McKerlie launches Challenge 2025
- Mohawk College gets funding for second mobile classroom
- Mohawk College asks to partner again with Haldimand
- Finding a New Passion in Welding
- Mohawk College Mobile Classroom enrolls 100 students in its first year
- Mohawk College's City School program gets $600,000 funding boost
- Haldimand County to partner with Mohawk College for local post-secondary opportunities
- Mohawk to work with employers to develop City School courses
- Skilled trades training initiative in Hamilton gets provincial funding boost
- Construction course helps women build lives
- City School and Burlington Public Library
- International Women's Day
- Transgender job fair will help with barriers - from interviews to LinkedIn photos
- Province supporting women in skilled trades
- Mohawk Launches City School Mobile