Dave Fenton

Assistant Director of External Relations with the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Dave Fenton is the Assistant Director of External Relations with the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). He leads a team of relationship managers that support Management’s accredited co-operative education program and oversees the curricular work-integrated learning (WIL) program through an innovation center named The BRIDGE. Through the team’s efforts, Management delivers roughly 3,000 WIL experiences in the classroom across more than 30 courses a year. 

Dave has been published in Cooperative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada’s (CEWIL Canada) e-book “The Practice of Co-op and Work-Integrated Learning in the Canadian Context”, presented publications at the WACE International Research Symposium, the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) World Conference, the CEWIL Research Spotlight, and serves as facilitator of Global WIL Modules.  He is one of four practitioners globally that holds a Certificate in Global Work-Integrated Learning. 

Dave holds a Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.