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Human Service and Social Justice Students Discuss Senior Citizens in Ward 8

aemebteMay 17, 2020June 9, 2020Leave a comment

Four students in HSSJ were chosen for an exemplar award at the Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Shayna Druckman and group members Sophie Clemens, Alexia Veiga, and Grayson Hussong recently won the award.

Their project in Dr. Emily Morrison’s Human Services & Social Justice was charged with the task of researching, navigating, identifying key components, programs and services catering to Senior Citizens in Ward 8. They focused on Ward 8 Seniors access to resources such as transportation, and services.

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Allen Wang Discusses Service with 7Cups

aemebteMay 17, 2020December 14, 2020Leave a comment

Allen Wang is a Junior in the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences who recently won an award for his work in BISC 1008 with 7 Cups at the Virtual Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Community-Engaged Scholar Emebte Atanaw spoke with Allen to discuss his project for the Understanding Organisms course with Dr. Tara Scully.

Allen’s project was teaming up with virtual community partner 7Cups, which is a free virtual counseling/therapy service for those who need a listening ear.

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First Place Nashman Prize Award Winners Discuss Informal Roads in Siberia

aemebteMay 17, 2020June 9, 2020Leave a comment

Jacob Tafrate and his group member Elizabeth Szafranski were the first place Nashman Prize winners at the Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.

Their project for the Geography department was titled Geographic Analysis of Informal Road Networks in Siberia. Tafrate explained that their project was “taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how informal road networks influence the Ivank people.” They focused on different road transfer networks and how they have changed and evolved over time, various hazards, and analyzing how it influenced the people in the area.

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Community-Engaged Learning in Engineering Conference: Postponed

aemebteApril 25, 2020April 27, 2020Leave a comment

This conference will bring together faculty, professionals, researchers, students, community members, and others interested in engineering-based community-engagement and service-learning together to discuss the state of the art, best practices, challenges, and opportunities to enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

The conference organizers are the same group behind EPICS, a highly regarded program that has brought national attention to community-engaged learning as a proven pedagogy in engineering and the STEM disciplines.

The Conference was scheduled for July 29-31, 2020 hosted by Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. We will keep you posted about new dates.

More information can be found: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/university/events/Events%20Information

ArtReach: How to Make a Mask

aemebteApril 25, 2020April 27, 2020Leave a comment

GW's ArtReach program is still actively engaging with the DC community through COVID.

If you have time and materials, we encourage you to make extra masks to donate to your neighbors, the elderly, and other vulnerable individuals in your community! Making masks is a great way to be of service and helps make your community safer. Make sure you wash your hands before creating and donating!

Let us know how many masks you donated. You can share pictures of your creations with us by emailing (artreach@gwu.edu) or tagging us on Instagram (#ArtReachAtHome).

Here is a link on how to make masks by the CDC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx1yqvJgf4&feature=youtu.be

How to Guide for Spring 2020 Virtual Symposium

aemebteApril 6, 2020April 24, 2020Leave a comment

The show must go on! The Spring 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship will be held virtually. The Symposium is an event at the end of each semester, for students who engaged with the community for their course to share what they did and what they learned with the GW and DC communities.

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Calls for Papers: Special Issue on Science Education and Civic Engagement

aemebteApril 1, 2020April 27, 2020Leave a comment

Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal (SECEIJ) is calling for submissions to be part of a special issue honoring the life and legacy of Dr. David Ferguson, Distinguished Service Professor and Provost’s Scholar at Stony Brook University, who died unexpectedly in July 2019. David was one of the first individuals involved with the National Science Foundation-funded SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Project and became a senior leader in that community. In addition to chairing the SENCER Leadership Fellows program, David was a long-time member of the editorial advisory board for SECEIJ.

In keeping with the themes that were important to David during his career, we invite submissions on the following topics:

diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM
engineering for social good
faculty development/leadership
applied math and quantitative literacy

Submission guidelines can be found at http://new.seceij.net/submission-guidelines/. Please note that for this special issue, submissions do not need to fall into one of the categories described in the guidelines. All submissions should be sent to Marcy Dubroff, Managing Editor, at mdubroff@fandm.edu. The deadline for submissions to this special issue is April 15. Questions about this special issue can be directed to either of SECEIJ’s co-editors in chief, Trace Jordan (trace.jordan@nyu.edu) or Matt Fisher (matt.fisher@stvincent.edu).

Attend the Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work

aemebteMarch 20, 2020April 21, 2020Leave a comment

The Association of American Colleges & Universities will be hosting a conference on Integrative Learning and Signature Work July 21-July 24, 2020 at American University in Washington, DC. The conference is intended for college and university teams interested in advancing programs and curricula aimed at building students’ capacity to integrate their learning across the curriculum and co-curriculum, foster global learning through community engagement, and capture students’ development through signature work. Sessions led by national experts will emphasize the value of leveraging general education, interdisciplinary approaches, and co-curricular experiences to achieve campus goals to expand integrative learning and community engagement.

If you are interested and want to learn more about the event click here.

Service-Learning and Experiential Education Podcast

aemebteMarch 19, 2020March 19, 2020Leave a comment

Students and faculty are encouraged to build a community around their community-engaged scholarship during this time of remote learning. Listen in or sign up to share on a podcast!

The AERA Service-Learning & Experiential Education SIG has launched a very cool podcast highlighting the amazing community-engaged work of SLEE scholars across the nation (and around the world)! Join in weekly as scholars, students, and community partners share their stories - from the latest teaching, learning, and research scholarship to the rewards/challenges we face in the field (and in the institution).

To listen, subscribe to the SLEE041 podcast on Spotify or iTunes and/or join their Service-Learning and Experiential Education Facebook Group page for episode links with additional interview details, updates from the field, publication/conference/job calls, and much more! Join a network of SLEE PK-20 scholars, students, and community stakeholders as they “get real” about SLEE. To be a featured guest on the Podcast or to co-host an episode, complete this form or contact co-host Dr. Amanda Hall at hallaf2@vcu.edu with any questions.

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2020 URBAN Conference Registration OPEN

Registration is open for the All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice conference! Registration will close for all attendees on April 12,2020. Contact mkdiscip.edu for any questions regarding registration. The conference is filled with sessions and performances with Wednesday and Thursday lunch, Wednesday evening reception and social dinner. Shuttles will be provided to and from conference venues, but the hotel must be accommodated separately.

Registration rates include:

Full Conference- faculty/ foundation representative: $235

Full Conference- Student/non-profit organizations: $85

One day- faculty/foundation reprsentative: $90

One day- Student/non-profit organizations: $35

Service Learning outcomes for students of color at the institution level

aemebteMarch 19, 2020March 19, 2020Leave a comment

Dr. Watson and her colleagues from Rutgers University analyzed data on how to practice high-impact equity using a toolkit. The toolkit provides a process practitioners can follow to become more equity-minded in their use of HIPs. Designed to ensure that students from all racial and ethnic groups are taking equal advantages of HIPs. It provides methods to assess: equal representation, equal access, and equal impact. They also created a report that's useful to interrogate whether there are equity gaps in your student engagement practices. Some of those practices being

1. Interrogate Policies and Practices

2. Race-conscious engagement practices

3.Interrogate Policies and Practices

4. Plan Inquiry Activities

5. Implement Actions and Set Equity Goals

To learn more visit the report findings and click here!

Share with Students: How to Check your Service Transcript on GWServes

aemebteJanuary 8, 2020July 8, 2021Leave a comment

Give pulse gives you an easy way to check service hours for the entire time they are at GW as a student or faculty. Here are three easy steps to find the summary of your service hours.

Step one: go to Givepulse and log in using your GW email login.

Step Two: click your name and click summary

Step Three: a PDF summary of all your hours will appear on the screen for you to save or print. Don't forget that all hours for this year must be in by April 24th! Be sure to submit hours now to avoid problems in April and thanks for serving!

The Nashman Center recognizes students, faculty, staff, and community commitments to community engagement, scholarship, and social innovation each year. Click here to see if you are eligible for graduation awards!

Apply for the Knapp Fellowship for Entreprenuerial Service-Learning!

aemebteJanuary 8, 2020April 9, 2020Leave a comment

The Knapp Fellowship award is just around the corner. The award will recognize one or more innovative proposals each year and will provide support for their implementation. Up to $10,000 will be awarded each academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students with one more semester may apply independently or with a group of students to design and create solutions that will make a significant difference in the lives of others. Awardees must work with the support and guidance of a faculty member on their research and action projects and must be enrolled at GW for the full Academic Calendar year in which the award is being given in order to qualify as a candidate for the Knapp Fellowship.

One key application component is that you must be enrolled at GW for the full Academic Calendar year in order to qualify as a candidate for the Knapp Fellowship.

Click here to see previous winners and their projects!

This year's 2019-2020 winners are Zaniya Lewis, and Yesenia Grajeda Yepez!

Click here to learn more about Zaniya's project!

Click here to learn more about Yesenia's project!

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On January 17, 2020 The Nashman Center will be gathering all Community-Engaged Scholarship course instructors for a meeting to kick-off the semester right. Lunch will be provided!

We are looking forward to sharing a number of resources with you and discussing each others' new ideas, concerns, and questions. A few important conversations we'll have include:

Your feedback on the new course, department, and school reports that our GWServes platform makes possible.
Advice from the registrar on a number of ways to ensure students are aware your course will include community engagement.
Changes to the Symposium for Community-Engaged Scholarship.

To register for this event click right here!

Hope to see you all there!

Community Engaged Scholarship Givepulse Training for Faculty, TAs. GAs

aemebteJanuary 7, 2020January 7, 2020Leave a comment

Faculty, TAs and GAs please join us for an online virtual tutorial about your course and how to register students on GWServes/givepulse. We will review how to see student hours, how to edit your class, how to find your community partners and ass to your page and how students add their impact hours. Weblink for each day will be sent out ahead of the sessions. Down below are the times and dates for the sessions. RSVP link down below.

Session days/times:
January 10th at 10am
January 11th at 10am
January 14th at noon
January 15th at noon

RSVP by clicking here!