We had a great MLK Day at GW this year - a heartfelt thank you to everyone who took the time to serve on Monday!
To all of our Faculty and Students who served on MLK Day Thank YOU!
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Share with Students: The Nashman Center is hiring for the 19/20 Academic Year.
If you have students in your undergraduate or graduate courses who would be a great fit for positions at Nashman (including federal work study) please have them apply!
Students access the application here 2019-2020 Nashman Center Student Leader Application and can find the job descriptions here: Documents tab on GWServes
Flyer is also attached here for use on Blackboard or in your department newsletter.
Faculty in Residence and Faculty Guide Applications Open: Deadline 2/15/19
Interested in Living and Learning with Students? Apply for a Faculty in Residence or Faculty Guide position
The application for faculty who are interested in joining GWUs Faculty in Residence and Faculty Guide programs is open until February 15th. The Faculty in Residence and Faculty Guide program is a partnership between Academic Affairs and Student Engagement, that provides faculty members with the unique opportunity to connect with students in a residential setting. Faculty connect with students through programs, events, and informal interactions, and collaborate with residential staff in supporting our communities.
This a a great opportunity for faculty whose scholarship would benefit from living and learning in community settings on campus.
New Podcast from Nashman Affiliate Faculty Gaetano Lotrecchiano on Teams and Collaboration
We are sharing a recent podcast from Nashman Affiliate Faculty Dr. Gaetano Lotrecchiano on how to build effective teams. The podcast is part of a series on “Research Into Action.” A transcript of the podcast is also available at the site.
Interested in finding out more about what our affiliated faculty do at GW and in our community? Click https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/new-page-3/ to learn more about these amazing scholars on our campus.
A note on the Passing of Senator Harris Wofford from Amy Cohen Executive Director, Nashman Center
We join the country in mourning the passing of Senator Harris Wofford with this remembrance from Amy Cohen.
I note with sadness the passing of Senator Harris Wofford. Harris helped to bend the arc of history toward justice through his many significant roles in American history. His obituary in the Washington Post outlines many of them, including as a friend and champion of Dr King and the civil rights movement. I was proud to work for and with Harris at the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, which he led during the 1990s. Before that, while US Senator from Pennsylvania, he was instrumental in bringing significant opportunities for students in higher education to contribute to their surrounding communities through Federal Work Study (FWS). By passing legislation that required a minimum of 7% of FWS funds to be used for community service at each higher education institution, he effectively created the greatest opportunity for student community service. His was an extraordinary life lived in large part with dedication to public service ad helping the US and individuals to realize their best aspirations.
New Podcasts on Health Equity in DC from the Rodham Institute at GW
New semester-new learning opportunities about the social determinants of health in DC!
Check out the first four in a series of 8 mini podcasts from the Rodham Insititute https://anchor.fm/rodham-diana-hla about Health Equity in DC. They run about 7 minutes long and have interviews with various academic and community leaders on each of the Social Determinants of Health.
GW ArtReach and New Collaboration with DC Central Kitchen
Click below for this great example of GW’s campus-community partnerships.
“Creatively merging our two organizations’ areas of expertise, Aselin Lands of GW ArtReach created art lessons to correspond with three popular DC Central Kitchen nutrition lessons: “MyPlate”, “Where does your food come from?” and “Eat the Rainbow.” For six weeks, 30 students alternated between interactive nutrition education lessons and creative art projects. Each of their nutrition education lessons involved a hands-on cooking demo, including our popular kale salad recipe and a taco representing all five food groups. One student, Dylan, liked the kale salad so much that he later made it with his family at home! However, he did report being just a little disappointed that his mom bought pre-chopped kale instead of a bunch, meaning he couldn’t use the knife skills he had learned in class with us.”
https://dccentralkitchen.org/2018/12/20/a-new-partnership-at-thearc/
William and Mary Active Citizens Conference Call For Proposals Open: Deadline 2/20/19
Do you have students from Community Engaged Scholarship Courses with presentations to share?
Registrations and workshop proposals for the 2019 Active Citizens Conference are now being accepted. This is a student-focused conference for educating, uniting, and inspiring active citizenship. The conference is close enough to make transportation costs low and will be held Saturday, March 23 at William & Mary.
The conference seeks 50 minute workshop proposals from students, faculty, staff, and community members alike. You can review previous conference guides for further context. Proposals will be due by February 20.
Registration is open until March 13 and is $60 for students.
We hope to see some GWU students and faculty represented at the conference-a great opportunity to share your community engaged scholarship!
Nashman Affiliate Faculty, Dr. Maranda Ward, Appointed to the DC Department of Health Commission on Health Equity
Congratulations to Maranda Ward, of the Medical School’s Clinical Research and Leadership department, on her new role. Dr. Ward brings both scholarly expertise and leadership experience to her new role, having already served in 2017-2018 as a Commissioner of an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) in Ward 7.
Link here for a recent article in The Hatchet describing her work.
Follow Dr. Ward yourself via her podcast: #EquityMatters (link here).
Recap: Fall 2018 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship
This event was held Friday December 7th, Noon - 3:45 pm, Marvin Center, 3rd floor
Link here for the Fall 2018 Symposium program.
Link here for information about the upcoming Spring 2019 Symposium.
Highlights this semester included:
- a lunchtime presentation by students in Dr. Leslie Jacobson’s Theatre for Social Change course, followed by Dr. Jacobson’s facilitated discussion and reflection.
- Over 25 showcase presentations, including:
- Advocacy films created and presented by students in SMPA 4190 Senior Capstone: Online Journalism Workshop (Instructor: Imani M. Cheers). If you missed them: https://monumedia2018.wixsite.com/home
- Undergraduate community engaged MAP-IT projects from HSCI 2195: Applied Health Equity (Instructor: Maranda Ward)
- Research and reflection presentations by students in SOCY 2105 (Instr: Greg Squires), HSCI 2195: Applied Health Equity (Instructor: Maranda Ward), 3100W: Program Planning and Evaluation (Instr: Michelle Kelso), HSSJ 3152: Fact, Field, Fiction (Instr: Emily Morrison), HSSJ 1177 (Instr: Peter Konwerski) & SPAN 3040/ Operacion Impacto (Instr: Dolores Perillian), HSSJ 1100: Introduction to Human Services and Social Justice (Instr: Wendy Wagner), and HSSJ 4198: Citizen Leadership, Civic House Scholars Program (Instr: Wendy Wagner)
- Concurrent Sessions, including panel presentations and reflective discussions:
- Community Engagement through the Arts (facilitated by Aselin Lands, Director of ArtReach GW)
- East of the River: Inequity in DC (facilitated by Maranda Ward, Visiting Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership)
- Partnerships in Youth Development/Education (facilitated by Lottie Baker, Assistant Professor in GSEHD)
- The Sustainability Forum (facilitated by Tara Scully, Assistant Professor of Biology and Director of GW’s Sustainability minor)
- Operación Impacto (facilitated by Dolores Perillán, Instructor, Spanish Literature and Director of Operación Impacto)
- What does MMIW mean? A dialogue about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (facilitated by Lisa Benton-Short, Chair of the Geography department). More information available here: https://findourwomen.org/
Featured Speaker: John Saltmarsh on How Community-Engaged Scholarship is Transforming Higher Education
Join the Nashman Center on Wednesday, January 30th, 9:00-10:45am,as we welcome Dr. John Saltmarsh to campus for a talk and facilitated discussion,
“How Community-Engaged Scholarship is Transforming Higher Education.”
Gelman Library, Room 101
9:00 am Enjoy coffee and networking with other community-engaged colleagues
9:30-10:45 am Dr Saltmarsh presentation and subsequent discussion
Dr. John Saltmarsh is one of the nation's leading scholars on community-engaged scholarship and on leveraging institution-wide change to support civic engagement in higher education. He will be sharing with us the latest research on the value of community-engaged scholarship, to benefit our communities and to improve the quality of our scholarship.
Saltmarsh spearheaded the movement linking scholarly work to community-engagement while at Campus Compact as the director of their national program on Integrating Service with Academic Study. He served for ten years as the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), a resource-rich center with a strong national reputation. Saltmarsh was also one of the architects of the Carnegie Foundation's elective "Engaged Campus" designation. He is currently the Swearer Center Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Residence and a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Dr. Saltmarsh has authored, co-authored and edited many of the best resources available on community-engaged scholarship and influencing culture change in higher education to promote public engagement. Recent publications (all available through the Nashman Center Library or links provided here) include:
- “Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education” (2016)
- “‘To Serve a Larger Purpose:’ Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education” (2011)
- “Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement” (2011)
- “Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education” (2011)
- “Democratic Engagement White Paper” (2009)
- "Service-Learning in the Disciplines" the AAHE series of 18 monographs, which continues to be a top resource for faculty learning how their scholarship and their students' learning can be achieved in the context of community partnerships.
This event is part of the Nashman Center’s Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship series, click here for the full schedule of events.
Spring 2019 Nashman Faculty Events
We look forward to seeing you at our Spring, 2019 Events:
Featured Speaker Dr. John Saltmarsh on Community-Engaged Scholarship
January 30th, 9-10:45am
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Activist Movements: Making the Connection
February 27th, 9:30-10:45am
The History of Inequity in Washington, DC: What Community-Engaged Scholars Need to Know
March 27th, 9:30-10:45am
GW Research Days, judging for the Nashman Prize for Community-Based Participatory Research
April 9-10, noon-2pm
Spring 2019 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship
Friday, April 26th, Noon - 3:30 pm, Marvin Center, 3rd floor
New Issue of About Campus: Curricular Approaches for Learning Beyond the Classroom
About Campus is offering free downloads of top articles for a limited time-great opportunity for over the break reading-or to fill out reading lists for spring courses!
There are great articles available at About Campus for your and/or your students. We particularly liked Shifting to Curricular Approaches to Learning beyond the Classroom by Kathleen G. Kerr, James Tweedy, Keith E. Edwards and Dillon Kimmel
Other Articles from About Campus Available for free download:
Generation Z: Educating and Engaging the Next Generation of Students by Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace
Success by Failure by Benjamin D. Andrews
Being Better and Doing Better: Men's Health and Mental Health on Campus by Christopher Kilmartin
William Deresiewicz Talks with Executive Editor, Frank Shushok, Jr. about His Book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite & the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
Mental Health, Well–being, and Learning: Supporting Our Students in Times of Need by Alan M. Woody Schwitzer and John A. Vaughn
Practice or Perish: How Overexposure and Premature Claims of Success Undermine Men of Color Initiatives by Steven Thurston Oliver
Fairness and Fate in Elite College Admissions by Stephen J. Handel
“What is Said Here”: Reflections on an Informal Community for Black Men at an Historically White Institution by Ray Black
Thank You for Making the Fall 2018 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship a Success!
The Symposium was a success and we want to thank the students, faculty and community partners who spent the afternoon learning from and engaging with each other! Everyone learned a great deal from the presenters, Dr. Jacobsen’s Theater Students gave the audience a new way to think about immigration with their presentation, the showcases from community engaged courses highlighted the service, research, learning and action that students undertook throughout the semester and the concluding panels examined community engaged scholarship in depth- all great examples of engagement with our community and our scholarship.
If you missed the symposium check out the great people who presented here: https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/symposium/
Two of our presenters-Dr. Imani Cheers’ class and Gillian Joseph 2018-2019 Knapp Fellowship Winner have websites to share with us in case you missed their sessions at the symposium or wanted to learn more here they are https://monumedia2018.wixsite.com/home & https://findourwomen.org/
Do you have scholarship to share? Mark your calendar for the spring symposium on April 26, 2019!
Start the New Semester With a Discussion on Public Health 1/28/2019
DC Community Health Connect is a series of networking and educational events for community-based health care providers and community members. The purpose of these events is to create a forum to exchange ideas and resources, as well as to learn from experts from academia, government, and community-based organizations.
Food will be provided, and tickets are free but limited.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2019
Time: 5:30 - 8:00PM
Location: Busboys and Poets, 14th & V
2021 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dc-community-health-connect-sickle-cell-disease-tickets-53606298883
For any questions, please contact:
Kristina Williams at krwilliams@mfa.gwu.edu
