The Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement Conference (PACE) will be held on February 15th 2023 at High Point University. Deadline to submit proposals is November 16th. Learn more and submit a proposal.
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is hosting a webinar Wednesday, October 26th 2022 from 2-3pm EST on "Partnering During the Pandemic: Did COVID-19 Redefine How We Partner?". Register Here
In celebration of 25 years of promoting health equity and social justice through partnerships with community and academic partners, CCPH is hosting a series of webinars highlighting partnerships and their power to change the conditions and environments in which people live, work, study, pray, and play. The initial webinar in the series will explore CCPH’s partnership with the Duke Clinical Research Institute and UNC-Center for Health Equity Research as part of the RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC). RADx-UP is a NIH-funded project which addresses COVID-19 testing disparities in underserved populations.
This roundtable, featuring CCPH’s Executive Director and RADx-UP Principal Investigators, will provide insight into a partnership formed during an international public health crisis. Panelists will discuss the benefits and challenges of partnership building in a crisis, while also reflecting on lessons learned and emerging assets.
Deadline for proposals for IMPACT 2023 is November 4th 2022 and the conference will be held from February 23-26 2023 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Link for proposals
The IMPACT Conference brings together college students, nonprofit professionals, campus administrators, faculty, and teams of service members to share experiences, stories, and resources in their work for social change. The annual conference provides an opportunity for attendees to gather and collaborate with one another with a focus on civic engagement, service-learning, community-based research, advocacy, and other forms of social action.
Being a workshop presenter is a chance for you to share your knowledge and experience with attendees. This can be done by conveying effective strategies and practices, providing resources, sharing research and stories, and inspiring attendees to be agents of social change.
Collaboratory will be hosting a virtual summit on Thursday, October 20th from 2:00-3:30pm ET. Register here
Washington, D.C.—The D.C. State Board of Education (SBOE) will hold its monthly working session on Wednesday, October 12, at 5:00 p.m. The working session will be held in-person at the Marion S. Barry, Jr. Building; however, in-person attendance will be limited to members and staff of the State Board. The meeting will be streamed live on the State Board’s YouTube page for members of the public to attend. Materials for the State Board meetings can be found on our meeting website.
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) will present their community service graduation requirement proposal to the State Board. Current high school graduation requirements in the District require that in addition to the twenty-four (24) Carnegie Units, one hundred (100) hours of community service must be satisfactorily completed. The Council of the District of Columbia waived this community service requirement for graduating seniors during the 2019–20, 2020–21, and 2021–22 school years due the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The State Board will review OSSE’s proposal and continue to solicit constituent and student feedback in the coming weeks—a vote on any changes is likely to occur at the State Board’s November 16 public meeting.
Following discussion with an expert panel at its September 21 Public Meeting on the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), the State Board will review findings, trends, and recommendations on how the ESSER funds are being spent to support schools and go over next steps.
The HUD + Higher Ed Engagement Network, is a powerful new partnership that will foster renewed collaboration between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and campuses across the country to benefit communities.
Presented in partnership with the Anchor Institutions Task Force, the Coalition for Urban and Metropolitan Universities, and the University Economic Development Association, the network will create opportunities for new, high-impact partnerships between community engaged institutions, HUD regional and field offices, and community partners to tackle challenges facing communities.
The University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity is hosting a webinar Thursday October 27th 2022 from 3:30-5:00 pm ET on Academic and Community Collaborations. Registration Link
Universities have a long and storied history of collaboration with community organizations and organizers. Yet these collaborations are not without their challenges, as wealthy, predominantly white universities must address issues of power, privilege, and competing priorities for these collaborations to succeed. While decades of research and experience have illustrated some best practices in academic-community collaborations, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing politicalization of research, growing public support of advocacy movements like Black Lives Matter, and the increasing reliance on social media have forced community organizers to engage in new and creative efforts to support their communities. How can universities best evolve to collaborate with and support community organizations amid these new challenges?
On October 27, join Dr. William Lopez for a discussion with Gladys Godinez, Cecia Alvarado, and Karina Perez, three Latina organizers and creatives with decades of experience advocating with and for Latino communities. Together, they will share their experiences on academic collaborations, describing what they’ve done, when it’s worked well, when it’s gone wrong, and what academics can do to best support the communities with whom they collaborate. Co-Sponsored by the NCID's Anti-Racism Collaborative, Poverty Solutions, the Department of American Culture, the Latina/o Studies Program, and the Carceral State Project.
Pre-conference workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5, from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) in room 157A. register via Eventbrite
APHA conference will be held November 6-9 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Link to registration and more information
The Community-based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) Working Group, sponsored by the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA), presents a workshop every year just ahead of the annual APHA meeting. It includes people in the field in the US and internationally working in and with communities. It is very student friendly. You do
not have to be a member of the APHA or to register for the annual meeting. We hope you will take this opportunity to learn and share about diverse partnerships in community health. The proposed topic this year is Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era. The workshop will be in Boston, on Saturday 5 November 2022, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM.
The CBPHC Working Group is excited to announce an opportunity for community health workers (CHWs) and students to submit abstracts for presentation at this year’s pre-APHA workshop. Presentations will be as a poster presentation.
On Thursday, October 13th from 4-6pm ET, the Julian Clement Chase Prize Award will be awarded to Izy Carney at the GWU Museum- Textile Museum (701 21st Street NW, Washington DC). RSVP link.
This year's Julian Clement Chase Prize winner is Izy Carney, for her Honor’s History Thesis, "’Dirty Work’ Pay: Environmental Racism and the 1970 Washington, D.C. Sanitation Strike."
Honorable Mention goes to Wyatt Kirschner for his History Senior Thesis, "“45 Hardcore, Ass Bustin’ Radicals” and Three Infiltrators: Students for a Democratic Society at George Washington University and the FBI’s Counterintelligence Efforts Against Them."
The Julian Clement Chase Prize is named in honor of Sgt. Julian Clement Chase, a native of Washington, D.C., who graduated in 2008 from DC’s Wilson High School. While serving with the United States Marine Corps, he was killed in action at the age of 22 in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He was set to matriculate as a freshman at GW in the spring of 2013. Born in Washington, Julian knew and relished his city. His family has established this prize in his honor to recognize others who explore D.C. with the intelligence and exuberance that he did.
This ceremony launches this year’s University Writing and Research Conference, hosted by the GWU University Writing Program.
Campus Compact and Encore.org are excited to announce the launch of Campus Cogenerate, a new initiative developed by Encore.org and Campus Compact focused on the power generated when older and younger people come together to engage with communities in solving problems, bridging divides, and co-creating a better future—or what we call “cogeneration.”
Many community-engaged campuses already offer lifelong learning programs, provide intergenerational community service experiences, or connect age-diverse populations for mutual learning and exchange. Cogeneration takes this a step further, bringing generations together to solve pressing problems. During a time of growing civic discord, age divides, social isolation, and inequity, intergenerational collaboration on campuses and in the surrounding communities can produce a windfall of social capital along with much-needed generational and cultural understanding.
Learn more about our partnership
In this blog from Campus Compact President Bobbie Laur and Eunice Lin Nichols, Co-CEO at Encore.org, learn more about the importance of cogeneration and how you can get involved.
Over the next six months, Campus Cogenerate will:
Identify, spotlight, and share promising practices related to cogenerational problem solving already happening across campuses and in our communities.
Host a visioning session to facilitate peer learning on how age diversity, social connection, and campus innovation can help bridge divides, solve problems, and co-create thriving, equitable, and just communities.
Support new and expanded opportunities for cogenerational collaboration across the Campus Compact and Encore networks.
More details are listed here:
https://commonfund.nih.gov/sites/default/files/OTA-22-007.pdf
https://www.commonfund.nih.gov/compass
"We wish to share this funding announcement with community organizations and their research partners. This opportunity invites applications from a broad range of community organizations including non-traditional industry and non-profit organizations. NIH is particularly interested in applications led by organizations that have a core mission to serve underrepresented or underserved groups impacted by health disparities. Academic research centers, academic healthcare organizations, and private healthcare organizations are not eligible to apply. This Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Interventions initiative expects community organizations to lead research efforts in collaboration with research partners."
Our thanks to Dr. Tamara Taggart for sharing this information.
The International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement is continuing a virtual webinar series for mid-career community engagement professionals on October 3rd 2022 at 1:30pm ET. Registration link
This webinar format is based on the principles of "Community of Practice," where a group of people share a common interest or concern, and come together to share their approaches and experiences. In the process, they create new knowledge to advance the field.Participants will briefly revisit the CEP Competency Model (Dostilio et al, 2017) as a framework for guiding the reflective discussion. Breakout room facilitators will invite participants to share insights, stories, problems of practice, and questions to illuminate common themes of motivation, tension, and aspiration across mid-career CEPs’ experiences. Participants will also crowdsource resources, strategies, and insights to support them in envisioning and advancing change. This session is geared toward mid-career CEPs and is a follow up to the panel discussion held on September 16, but participants are not required to have attended the panel. recording of first panel
The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities is hosting its 27th annual conference on "The Essential Role of Urban and Metropolitan Universities from October 23-26 2022 in San Diego, California. Register here
"With 130+ sessions, there are opportunities to connect with and learn from fellow CUMU members who are doing impactful work across North America and beyond. Here are key sessions you won't want to miss."
Huddles: Sunday, October 23
Homelessness & Housing Insecurity Huddle
Hispanic Serving Institutions Huddle
Hyperlocal Directors Huddle
Community Engagement Evaluation Huddle
Plenaries
Monday, October 24: The essential role of urban and metropolitan universities as engines for social mobility
Tuesday, October 25: Prosperity and inclusive growth: Partners for equity outcomes in higher education
Wednesday, October 26: Tijuana, San Diego Cross Border Region as a place of community and resiliency
Roundtables: Wednesday, October 26
Participants rotate between tables to discover new ideas, programs, and initiatives in a conversational atmosphere.
Networking opportunities
Sunday, October 23: Welcome meet and greet
Monday, October 24: CUMU Signature Reception, Garden of the Sea at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego
Tuesday, October 25: Poster sessions: discover new ideas while networking with presenters
Community experiences and workshops (limited capacity)
These guided tours and workshops showcase the people, neighborhoods, and programs where some of our San Diego area members are engaged. Each experience and workshop is unique and relates to critical issues and themes common across the CUMU membership.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) today released The Effects of Community-Based and Civic Engagement in Higher Education: What We Know and Questions that Remain. This new report synthesizes existing research on a range of widespread teaching and learning practices whose effects on college student outcomes have been extensively examined and documented. Several of these practices, known collectively as “high-impact practices,” or HIPs, engage students in community-based experiences intended to develop their civic capacities. The report focuses primarily on the effects of various forms of community-based and civic engagement in higher education and identifies positive outcomes across six broad areas:
Funded by a grant from Lumina Foundation, the report highlights empirical trends across studies that met a defined set of criteria for methodological scope and scale intended to speak to greater generalizability of findings. Though hundreds of studies exist with regard to outcomes related to community-based and civic engagement, relatively few studies (53) met the criteria for generalizability. Fewer still (11) specifically address findings for students from demographic groups historically underserved by higher education, and those that do are focused almost exclusively on retention and graduation rates.
Much of the existing research on community-based and civic engagement examines a single community-based practice, most commonly service learning. Far less is known about the effects of global learning and study away, internships, field experiences, and community-based research. Moreover, nearly all measures of outcomes associated with community and civically engaged high-impact practices rely on students’ self-reporting of outcomes.
“Despite the decades-long movement within higher education to develop students’ civic capacities through engagement in community-based experiences, polarization in the United States is worsening and the social fabric of democracy is weakening,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella. “If we’re to renew and reinvigorate our commitment to the civic and democratic purposes of higher education, we must begin by asking what we know—and don’t know—about our effectiveness in helping students develop the civic capacities needed to sustain our democracy. This new report does just that.”
“A healthy democracy depends on those it governs to be educated, engaged, and able to navigate new, unexpected challenges. The country needs colleges and universities to do this consistently and creatively, yet we have ruled our agendas with anecdotes and single-institution strategies,” said Terri Taylor, strategy director for innovation and discovery at Lumina Foundation. “This report provides essential insights into the national state of play and reveals a clearer path forward for broader and more equitable impact.”
The research synthesis was conducted by Jessica R. Chittum, director of assessment and pedagogical innovation; Kathryn A. E. Enke, secretary to the board and strategist for presidential initiatives; and Ashley P. Finley, vice president for research and senior advisor to the president—all at AAC&U.
This fall, the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service is hosting a series of dialogues on Civic Leadership. Register here.
Civic Leadership Dialogues consist of workshops, informational sessions, and casual dialogues on various topics including active citizenship, advocacy, leadership, diversity, equity, and other related topics. We focus on the overarching theme of inclusive excellence. The sessions also meet the ELD requirement for Student Affairs.
