KACIF is a great way for students to get support with funding to help offset the expenses of unpaid internships in the non-profit or government sectors. Encourage your students to apply and take advantage of great opportunities to gain career experience while at GW!
Washington Monthly ranked GW one of America’s best colleges for voting. The rankings were decided based on a variety of metrics-one of places that GW scored well was that the institution encourages students to vote. You can see the full article (as well as the other civically active and not-so active universities here: https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2018/americas-best-colleges-for-student-voting/)09
The 2019 Nashman Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) are forming now. These small inter-disciplinary/inter-professional groups meet monthly for one year to discuss and learn collectively about their topic of interest. All GW faculty and administrators are welcome. Click here for information about other FLC's forming for 2019.
Chair: Leslie Jacobson (Theatre)
We would like to invite Faculty from across all disciplines and programs to join a Faculty Learning Community that will explore the many ways we might collaborate and engage with each other to build a vibrant multi-disciplinary arts community within GW, and to discern how to engage meaningfully with communities beyond the university.
Of particular interest will be the differentiation between “community outreach” and “community engagement.” What does engagement look like in arts scholarship and practice? How can we engage with our partners in ways that honor the goals of reciprocity, mutually beneficial partnerships, and epistemic justice?
Collectively, this group will identify and discuss relevant texts and examples of community-engaged arts. Members will share their successes, challenges, paths, and barriers.
The purpose of this FLC is to:
The FLC will convene monthly through December 2019 and will involve moderate preparation for our meetings.
To indicate your interest in this group, please email Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu).
The 2019 Nashman Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) are forming now. These small inter-disciplinary/inter-professional groups meet monthly for one year to discuss and learn collectively about their topic of interest. All GW faculty and administrators are welcome. Click here for information about other FLC's forming for 2019.
Chair: Maranda Ward, Clinical Research and Leadership
We would like to invite Faculty from across all disciplines and programs to join a Faculty Learning Community that will explore community-engaged scholarship in the context of online courses. This discussion will include a review of the literature on course design for online service-learning, relationship building and reciprocity with community partners in this context, and other factors that make these courses unique. There IS literature on community-engaged online courses, and we will explore it together.
Collectively, this group will identify and discuss relevant texts and examples of this work. Members will share their successes, challenges, paths, and barriers.
The purpose of this FLC is to:
The FLC will convene monthly through December 2019 and will involve moderate preparation for our meetings.
To indicate your interest in this group, please email Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu).
The 2019 Nashman Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) are forming now. These small inter-disciplinary/inter-professional groups meet monthly for one year to discuss and learn collectively about their topic of interest. All GW faculty and administrators are welcome. Click here for information about other FLC's forming for 2019.
Chair: Imani M. Cheers, School of Media and Public Affairs
We would like to invite faculty from across all disciplines and programs to join a Faculty Learning Community that will explore a variety of forms of storytelling available to scholars. Digital Storytelling has been employed as a powerful reflection tool for students. It has also used in community advocacy work. PhotoVoice is a qualitative research method, increasingly popular among researchers who use community-based participatory methods.
Collectively, this group will identify and discuss relevant texts and examples of this work. Members will share their successes, challenges, paths, and barriers.
The purpose of this FLC is to:
The FLC will convene monthly through December 2019 and will involve moderate preparation for our meetings.
To indicate your interest in this group, please email Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu).
This book talk with Dr. Reyes examines how colleges shape the political identity of Latino students. Hosted by the Cisneros Institute at GWU and open to all students and faculty. Don’t miss this discussion!
Read on about how Dr. Gedan engages her student research team in important conservation work in the Chesapeake Bay: Link here.
Washington Monthly has named GW among their best colleges for student voting in their September/October 2018 issue. Their publication, according to them, is the only one that takes into account civic engagement as part of their overall college rankings. They have done so since 2005.
They have chosen to highlight the top 58 schools that received a 4/4 rating for civic engagement. You can read the full article here and check out the full list of schools below.
GW Votes and the Party at the Mailbox, which was an event to help students mail their absentee ballots, was featured recently on USA Today in their article highlighting groups targeting college students to vote in the midterm elections. Check out the full article here.
There will be a showing of the documentary Dolores next week, an important step on the "March to March 29th" for this year's Chavez~Huerta~Itliong Day of Celebration and Commitment.
The Julian Clement Chase Prize, which has been awarded by GW’s Writing Department since 2016, was featured in a recent article in the Washington Post. One of the winners named, Xavier Adomatis, is a Civic House student and was recognized for his paper, “Re-Segregate D.C. Schools: An analysis of gentrification’s peculiar consequences on Francis-Stevens.” For more information about Julian Clement Chase and the prize, check out the full article here.
Our October Faculty spotlight is Dr. Imani M. Cheers from the School of Media and Public Affairs. Our Community-Engaged Scholar Emebte Atanaw sat down with Cheers to ask about her Scholarship of Engagement.
Dr. Cheers is a professor of Digital Storytelling in the School of Media and Public Affairs. This is her 6th year at the George Washington University. We wanted to know about how she incorporates service into her classes. Dr. Cheers explained her local and international work to us. “All of my courses are inspired by social justice and advocacy. I try to base the courses with local communities around the D.C. area, specifically the Shaw and Anacostia neighborhoods. I also include international focused advocacy in my courses. I’ve done activities such as beach clean-ups in Belize, working with local community leaders in Southeast D.C., and humanitarian work.”
We asked Dr. Cheers what advice she would give to professors and students at GW who want to do work in the community. She gave us some great insight. “Most people want to do good work but don’t have the connections or know where to do their service. We live in D.C. where there’s lots of community work to be done. We often neglect service in our own backyard. There’s organizations such as D.C. Central Kitchen who value their volunteers, and many public schools in D.C. eager for students to get involved. Overall, there’s much service to be done, and it’s only a couple blocks away.”
The Nashman Center is delighted to have Imani Cheers as a Nashman Affiliated Faculty member. To learn more about our Nashman Affiliated Faculty, click here. To learn more about Dr. Cheers’ research check out her new book “The Evolution of Black Women in Television: Mammies, Matriarchs and Mistresses” and her blogs at https://www.thecheersreport.com and https://www.blackwomenintv.com. You can see Dr. Cheers’ student research projects at the Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship Dec. 7th. Click here to RSVP for the event.
The Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement presents the 4th Annual Diversity Summit: Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at GW!
Join us for workshops, lectures, panels, and poster presentations on a variety of diversity-related topics, including race and racism, bias, sexuality and gender, and religion, faith, spirituality, and beliefs, and more.
For more information and to register, click here.
Many thanks to all who attended the October Conversation on Community-Engaged Scholarship, on Partnerships with DC Public Schools. Resources shared at that event are available below.
Note that links are shared through GWServes. If you haven’t already done so, you may need to login to accept your GWServes account first (GWServes is part of GW’s Single Sign-On, so you the same login and password you do for all GW platforms).
