The University Seminar at the George Washington University entitled, “Creating a Culture of Collaboration at the George Washington University” or C3@GWU
https://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture
seeks blog authors for the upcoming academic year (2018-2019).
The C3@GWU Seminar Objectives are to:
- Assemble knowledge communities (“think tanks”) of key contributors and stakeholders from throughout and beyond GWU to foster cross-disciplinary discourse and generate agendas for action in creating a collaborative culture at GWU.
- Explore key topical areas critical to scientific collaboration within and beyond the GWU scholarly community.
- Examine critical areas of academic and organizational collaborative functioning that will strengthen a growing culture of collaboration at GWU.
- Propose collaborative and team protocols, policies, and activities to university leadership and decision-makers responsible for empowering GWU collaborative science.
- Disseminate key products and create knowledge-sharing events that will enhance collaborative activity at the GW department, school, and university levels.
This program is in its 3rd year and a major goal is to introduce to the GW community to international voices dedicated to a number of key areas in collaborative science including:
- Developing and educating team scientists
- Measuring team effectiveness
- Technologies for collaboration and scholarship informetrics
- Required organizational supports for team science and collaboration
- Faculty reward and recognition for collaborative activities,
- Issues related to crossing cultural, ethnic, and gender boundaries in science.
If invited to publish your blog idea you will receive as a C3@GWU Blogger:
- Editing and preparation assistance of your message for the blog site
- Solicited participation of our over C3@GWU followers.
- Distribution of your contribution through Twitter
- A $50 Amazon gift card (GWU Blog authors are not eligible for the gift card)
Blog ideas might include:
- A synopsis of one of your recent publications
- An open editorial of a recently published seminal work
- A report on a work in progress
- Teaching and learning tips
- Reflections on collaborative processes at your institution.
- Others…
Interested Blog authors should provide:
- Name
- Contact Information
- Institution
- A brief (100-150 word) statement of a blog idea.
- The key C3@GWU interest area listed above that your idea addresses.
- Please identify a month in the upcoming year that might hope to publish your blog (October 2018-May 2019).
- Return email materials to glotrecc@gwu.edu.
- There is no deadline to this solicitation and all ideas will be considered for their fit with the key areas of the C3@GWU program.
- In addition to individuals, teams and groups are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to submit.
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