Understanding Community Based Research for Older Adults: Working from the Ground Up will be facilitated by Robert Turner, PhD, Wednesday, November 18 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Registration is required to receive the webinar link.
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It is time for Give-A-Gift—GW's annual holiday event! For 25 years, the GW community has stepped forward to support our neighbors with gifts for the holidays. This year due to COVID-19 restrictions, we are unable to collect and distribute physical gifts, so we are hosting a virtual gift campaign to continue GW’s support for the D.C. community. Everyone in the GW community is invited to give!
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From the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE): Explore the comprehensive data and analyses of youth participation and impact on the 2020 election.
"As our comprehensive data and analyses below make clear, young voters increased their turnout in 2020; they made the difference in key battleground states; and the participation and overwhelming support for President-elect Joe Biden from youth of color was one of the defining elements of the election."
Click here to read the full report.
Friday, November 13th at 1:00-2:15 PM EST, "the Criminal Justice Student Association will be cosponsoring a virtual panel event with GW's Sociology Department, Unplugged w/ CJSA: An Honest Conversation on Police Reform, in an effort to bring to light different approaches to reforming the police." Cosponsors "welcome individuals willing to have a dialogue on different perspectives on how to reform the current state of policing. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions to the experts in a moderated discussion."
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The following message is directly from The Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, David Brinker, DaShawn Dilworth, Prabhat Gautam, Adam Gismondi, Peter de Guzman, Xueyao Qiu, Nancy Thomas, and Duy Trinh.
...continue reading "A message from The Institute for Democracy & Higher Education"The upcoming 17th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 4-5, 2020. This is the world’s largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference. The conference will take place at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Register during August for a highly reduced registration rate (50% lower than the regular rate).
Confirmed speakers to date: Learn from more than 200 speakers who are committed to effective, responsible programs in health, development, entrepreneurship, and education. See the confirmed 2020 conference speakers to date.
Call for Abstracts: Abstracts are currently being accepted for research presentations, program presentations, and for the social impact pitch presentations, including submissions for the $10,000 and $5,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. The first abstract deadline is August 31. For those submitting a research or program abstract, October 15th is the final deadline.
Register for the Global Health & Innovation Conference
by August 31 for 50% off the registration rate.
Here is the Conference Schedule.
Here is the Application to present.
Here is more information about the Innovation Prize.
To read a full issue of Universities and Community Schools Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2020, please click here. This issue contains a letter from the editors, Ira Harkavy, John L. Puckett, and Rita A. Hodges: ...continue reading "Journal: Universities and Community Schools – Fall 2020"
"Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) has partnered with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to award the RWJF Award for Health Equity Presented By CCPH (RWJF-CCPH Award). The award recognizes two “Key Leaders” or key individuals (one community member and one academic partner) who spearhead the success to the field in the area of exemplary partnerships between communities and academic institutions that are striving to achieve health equity and social justice."
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"We have reached a critical moment spurred by a global pandemic, and rising up in response to tragedy born from systemic racism, that has pushed society toward a tipping point in the fight for social justice and racial equity. Over the past six months, there is a new desire to listen and learn from the movements, organizations and people who are leading these efforts and to support their actions and to take actions of our own.
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The Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing are pleased to present: “The Upswing” book launch. The event will take place Thursday November 5 from 16:00 – 17:30 GMT. To learn more and register, click here.
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SSSP's 71st Annual Meeting will be held August 6-8, 2021 at the Swissôtel Chicago in Chicago, IL. The theme for the meeting, selected by President Corey Dolgon, is Revolutionary Sociology: Truth, Healing, Reparations and Restructuring. In addition to the in-person annual meeting, SSSP is excited to be adding up to 60 virtual sessions. The pandemic has opened up new options for SSSP to build an even stronger and more substantive international organization, but to meet these challenges and opportunities SSSP needs a strong core of members.
Click here to review the Call for Papers. Click here to view the Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards announcement to submit a paper or nominate a book, article, or scholar. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact SSSP's office, sssp@utk.edu
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Registration for the 6th Annual Diversity Summit - Past. Present. Future. What will our legacy be? is open to all members of the GW Community! The Diversity Summit will take place virtually from November 11th - November 13th. We invite students, staff, faculty, senior leaders, and alumni to register by November 10th at 12:00pm EST. This year, we are grateful for the opportunity to include members of the broader community in our learning experience. We welcome you to invite colleagues, friends, and scholars outside of GW to register for $20 and join you in learning, challenging themselves, and being bold.
...continue reading "Office of Diversity and Inclusion, 6th Annual Diversity Summit"On October 30, Justin Wolfe, José Torres-Tama, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Jeff Hou, Sunni Patterson, Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, with performances by Ausettua Amor Amenkum,Baba Luther Gray, Baba Bill Summers, and Janet Sula Evans engaged in a dialogue discussing the Closing Plenary of IA’s 2020 Collective Creative Engagement.
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Thank you to Phyllis Ryder for sharing this opportunity. The CCW series strives to foster conversations about community literacy, partnership, and activism within departments, programs, and courses nationwide. The CCW Lecture Series is designed to provide opportunities for programs and departments to engage in discussions on the praxis of community writing. Each lecture will occur through Zoom and cost $300 per lecture. All proceeds from the Lecture series are used to support CCW’s staff and programming. To schedule a lecture or to suggest a topic/speaker, please contact CCW Director Veronica House here.
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