GW faculty receive Nashman Center faculty development grants to support community engaged scholarship course development annually. This list highlights faculty that have received grants for course development over the previous years. Learn more about Nashman Center Faculty Development Grants.
2022 Grants to support class development:
- CIXD 3085: Dr. Kevin Patton, Assistant Professor at GW's Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, has been awarded a Nashman Center faculty development grant for his Corcoran Interaction Design course: CIXD 3085. Dr. Patton is using the grant to get support to develop a community engaged element for the course. The course itself looks at impacts of design decisions through the lens of techno utopia with theory and case studies. Specifically, the course looks at how implementations of popular technologies, like machine learning, data, computer vision, the internet of things, VR, and drones, shape a designer’s vision and impact different communities through automated surveillance, algorithmic bias, agency, inequality, labor, and dehumanization. Adding a community engaged element will allow students to witness these impacts firsthand and will enable a different resonance of the material for the students.
- UW 1020: Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow, Assistant Professor in the University Writing Program, has been awarded a Nashman Center faculty development grant for UW 1020: Writing Science and Health, Women's Health as a Point of Inquiry. The proposed course redesign aims to embody principles of decolonized science and health through the engagement of DC community organizations. Students will transfer their bidirectional knowledges from the community organization and classrooms to reimagine the praxis of science and health interventions. Each participating organization will benefit from the research and writing skills of students assigned to their organization’s special project for the semester.
2021 Grants to support class development:
- HOL 8100: Dr. Maria Cseh and Jessica Hinshaw of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development have been awarded a Nashman Center faculty development grant for HOL 8100: Special Topics in Human Organizational Learning. This grant supported the development of a new community engaged scholarship course, HOL 8100:Developing Global Mindfulness through Participatory Community Engagement. This course prepares students to become engaged citizens and contributors to the public good by creating opportunities to enhance students’ and community partners’ global competence and mindfulness, and their critical and systems thinking, while finding solution to local organizational problems through mutual learning and participatory service-learning.
- EDU 6272: Dr. Rebecca Thessin of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development has been awarded a Nashman Center faculty development grant for EDU 6272: Leading Evidence-Based Action Research for School Improvement. This grant supports student research and publication of their action research projects and for refinements to how students reflect on and assess their own leadership learning. EDUC 6272: Leading Evidence-Based Action Research for School Improvement engages students in action research projects with school partners. Revisions to the course will incorporate opportunities for students to publicize their action research projects, in collaboration with the instructor, and enhance how students reflect on project outcomes for partners and in relation to their own leadership learning. This course revision aligns with the instructor’s own research work in leading school improvement as well, and will contribute to continued study on student learning from their leadership of action research assignments
