We were honored to have Dr. Ramos-Colon share her CBPR research with us through the Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship Series.
Don't miss the next event in this series: Wednesday, October 11th at 9:30 am in Gelman. Dr. Greg Squires will be facilitating a conversation on Recognizing, Evaluating and Rewarding Engaged Scholarship.
We hope to see you there!
Don't forget to sign up to attend This Wednesday's event!
The Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service hosts this opportunity for GW faculty to connect in conversation on the subject of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). Dr. Uriyoan Colon-Ramos, recipient of the 2017 Nashman Award for Engaged Research, will frame the conversation by presenting examples of her own research and describing her approach to conducting CBPR. The conversation to follow will invite others to consider or describe how the principles and values of CBPR intersect uniquely with their own work.
CBPR is a collaborative approach to research that promotes positive change through an equitable and reciprocal relationship between residents, community organizations and university researchers that is reflected in all levels of project design and dissemination. CBPR is a partnership between community and university investigators in which each group contributes their expertise and they share equal ownership of the process and products of research collaboration.
The Nashman Center's Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship at GW are designed for a faculty audience but open to all, including students, staff, and members of the community. Please RSVP here!
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 -
9:30am to 10:45am
Event Location:
Gelman Library, National Churchill Library and Center (Room 101)
The Rodham Institute is pleased to host it's seventh DC Community Health Connect!
Date: September 21, 2017,
Time: 6:00-8:30pm,
Location: Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, DC 20017
During the event, we will highlight the work of a number of featured organizations with unique expertise related to health and self-care, including our partner for this event, NatureBridge.
Food will be provided. Tickets are free but limited.
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Enter our Video Contest!
The Rodham Institute is still seeking entries for our 5th Annual Summit Video Contest!
Eligible videos will be two - five minutes in length, and will demonstrate how you are building resilience in your communities. For more information or to find out how to enter, follow the link here.
The Rodham Institute, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 8-404, Room 8-414, Washington, DC 20037
This event is a great opportunity to celebrate student engagement around voting on college campuses. Reception will follow at the Newseum. RSVP here spaces are limited!
SPEAKERS
Victoria Rowe, the winner of the 2017 Julian Clement Chase Prize, will be presenting on her work on October 19th at 4pm, in the GW Museum/Textile Museum, as part of the keynote event at the University Writing Program’s Fall 2017 Research and Writing Conference. We encourage you to attend and learn more about her community-engaged research work.
The Julian Clement Chase Prize annually recognizes exceptional research writing focused on the District of Columbia. Please consider how your course assignments might support scholarship that is competitive for the prize. For more information, please contact Dr. Phyllis Ryer, pryder@gwu.edu.
Ms. Rowe's research, "Seek First to Understand: Exploring the Implementation of Cultural Relevant Education in the District of Columbia" was completed as an Honors Thesis in the Human Services and Social Justice program. For this study, Rowe reviewed the literature on the positive effects of culturally relevant education practices and interviewed DCPS teachers to discover whether they use this approach and whether the DCPS professional development programs have helped them to do so.
Many thanks to Dolores Perillan for forwarding this plenary presentation from a recent American Association of Teacher of Spanish and Portuguese event. The messages here, that students must learn not only content, but also a greater understanding of their role as advocates and political actors for positive change, are relevant to higher education broadly as well as to the intended audience of language educators.
Link here for some fresh readings and resources from the NCDD (National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation).
GW Teach and GW Noyce are managing a new Fall internship program at the Smithsonian Science Education Center. This program builds from their successful summer internship program, encourage your students to apply (deadline September 25, 2017).
http://ssec.si.edu/gwteach-internship-program
Thanks to Nashman Affiliate Faculty member Sandy Hoar for sharing this information.
Please join us for this year's workshop and especially please share this with any students, young professionals, and Community Health Workers with whom you work.
This year's Community-based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) workshop, sponsored by the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association will be on CBPHC and Community Health Workers (CHWs): "underfunded afterthought" or key to achieving universal health.
It will be held Saturday November 4th, 2017, 8am-5pm, just ahead of the APHA conference.
Please follow this link for information, to purchase a ticket to reserve your spot, or to submit an abstract:
http://cbphc.wordpress.com/
Fall 2017 applications for Knowledge in Action Career Internship Fund (KACIF) Travel Grants will be accepted starting Monday, August 28, 2017.
The KACIF Travel Grants are available to GW students who are participating in internships that will advance their career development and who need assistance in paying for their public transportation to and from their internship location.
This reimbursement, which cannot exceed $300.00, can be used only for necessarily unpaid internships, i.e., typically those internships with non-profit, governmental, educational, and non-governmental organizations that genuinely lack the financial resources to pay salaries or wages to their interns. Students have successfully received this grant funding to support service-learning travel as well.
Applications will be accepted through myGW portal.
More information: http://go.gwu.edu/kaciftravel
If you have any questions, please contact kaciftravel@gwu.edu.
The KACIF Travel Grant was initiated in collaboration with the GW Student Association and made possible through the generous support of alumni, parents, and other donors.
The Nashman Center's annual Community Service Fair will be Tuesday, September 12th from 2:30-5:30pm in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom. Over 40 local nonprofits will attend this year. This is a great opportunity for faculty and students to meet with local organizations to talk about their service needs and opportunities for partnerships.
The DC Public Schools require several steps of approval before students can engage with children through service. Fortunately these steps can all be completed right here on campus through the Nashman Center's "Certified to Serve" program. Please encourage your students to take advantage of this opportunity.
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DCPS MOBILE FINGERPRINTING AT GW
This month's Compact Nation Podcast features Campus Compact President Andrew Seligsohn and Marina Kim, executive director of Ashoka U, discussing social innovation.
Community-Based Participatory Research
September 13th, 9:30-10:45am
Gelman Library, first floor
Facilitated by Dr. Uriyoan Colon-Ramos, Department of Global Health
A light breakfast will be provided. Link here to RSVP
The first host for our Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship Series will be Dr. Uriyoan Colon-Ramos, from GW's department of Global Health, facilitating a conversation about Community-Based Participatory Research. Dr. Colon-Ramos, recipient of the 2017 Nashman Award for Engaged Research, will frame the conversation by presenting the tenets of community-based participatory research, using examples from her own research and community-based work. Participants will be invited to discuss how the principles and values of CBPR intersect uniquely with their own work and discipline.
Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship invite GW faculty to join their colleagues for discussions that cross disciplines and connect our work to priorities and needs in our communities.
Email Wendy Wagner wagnerw@gwu.edu for more information.
Upcoming Topics in the Conversation Series (link here for more information)
October 11th, 9:30-10:45am
Recognizing, Evaluating and Rewarding Engaged Scholarship
Facilitated by Dr. Greg Squires, Dept of Sociology
November 8th, 9:30-10:45am
Conversation: Public Dissemination of Students’ Community-Engaged Scholarship
Facilitated by Dr. Phyllis Ryder, University Writing Program and Dr. Christopher Klemek, Dept of History
