On Friday, March 25th from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET, Dr. Maranda Ward and four GW students will facilitate a webinar titled, “What Decolonizing Our Classrooms Looks Like.” ...continue reading "Save the Date: What Decolonizing our Classrooms Looks Like"
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Community Update: Service Learning and Experiential Instructors Needed
Teach with the Civic Leadership Institute - a 3-week, in-person summer academic camp experience at Northwestern University this Summer 2022. ...continue reading "Community Update: Service Learning and Experiential Instructors Needed"
Community Update: Life Pieces to Masterpieces Mentor to introduce President Biden
This past week, Life Pieces to Masterpieces’ Mentor Cateo Hilton gave remarks at the White House and introduced President Biden. Cateo reflected on the importance of honoring Black History Month and shared how he creates new Black History every day with his peers.
As a long-time community partner with the Nashman Center, we are pleased to announce this celebration of Life Pieces to Masterpieces (LPTM) and Cateo Hilton.
To learn more about Life Pieces to Masterpieces, click here.
Apply Now: AAC&U Summer Institutes
AAC&U Institutes offer opportunities for teams and individuals to develop and exchange approaches and strategies in support of advancing campus change initiatives.
Institutes for Campus Teams: AAC&U’s team-based institutes offer campus teams a time and place for sustained collaborative work on a project of importance to their campuses, along with a curriculum focused on important trends, research, and best practices delivered by a resident faculty of educational experts and consultants.
Institutes for Individuals: AAC&U also offers institutes for individual STEM faculty and administrators engaged in leading projects aimed at transforming undergraduate STEM education in their classrooms, departments, and institutions.
Click here to learn more.
Good Reads: Metropolitan Universities Journal, Covid-19 Innovations through Crises
CUMU’s most recent issue of the Metropolitan Universities Journal highlights several articles written about new approaches to academia in response to Covid-19. Listed below are the articles included in the issue. ...continue reading "Good Reads: Metropolitan Universities Journal, Covid-19 Innovations through Crises "
Save the Date: CCMA’s Service Learning and Civic Engagement (SLCE) Conference
Register now for the 2022 SLCE Conference titled: Our Unfinished Work: Creating Equity through Service-Learning and Civic and Community Engagement. The event will take place from Tuesday, April 5th - Wednesday, April 6th, 2022.
The conference will provide community engaged practitioners, faculty, administrators, community partners, and students an opportunity to reflect and learn about how justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) can be advanced through the collective efforts of our member institutions’ civic and community engagement initiatives and programming.
The 2022 SLCE Conference will:
- Bring student, faculty, and community leaders of SLCE together for leadership development in the field
- Provide cross pollination and celebration of effective practices
- Create opportunity for community partner leaders to join in conversation about deepening impact and engagement
To learn more about the event click here.
Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Open Words
Open Words: Access and English Studies, one of the journals hosted by the WAC Clearinghouse, invites submissions for possible inclusion in a special issue on the subject of grant writing.
Areas of interest for this special journal issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- In what ways can we connect grant writing to issues of access?
- In what way is grant writing a constructed experience? What constructs, constraints, opportunities, etc. are in operation?
- What aspects of teaching grant writing need “debriefing”? How can we “take into account what interactions with students teach us about the broader, democratic goals of open-access and English studies”
- Does online and/or f2f teaching have implications for access?
- How does grant writing meet the Open Words stated goal of English studies, “to empower students’ critical and creative endeavors”?
IMPORTANT DATES:
-500 word proposal submitted to editors (see below): March 15, 2022
-Decision Deadline and Invitation to submit full manuscript: April 1, 2022
-Full Version: August 1, 2022
-Final Version: November 1, 2022
Submit manuscripts in digital format (Microsoft Word) via email addressed
to both:
-Catherine Quick Schumann, Associate Professor of English
catherine.schumann@tamucc.edu
-Charles “Chuck” Etheridge, Professor of English
charles.etheridge@tamucc.edu
GW Community: Winter Care Package Drive 2022
Support families in the DC school community by visiting the wishlist and donating warm winter clothing and hygiene products. Donate through February!
Apply Now: Engaged Scholars Initiative
The Engaged Scholars Initiative is designed to develop a diverse group of early-career faculty and staff who can strengthen their own critical community-engaged scholarship and lead equity-focused change with their institution and communities.
...continue reading "Apply Now: Engaged Scholars Initiative"
Good Reads: The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL)
Explore the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL)’s Special Issue Volume 27, Issue 1 titled, “Centering Social Justice in the Scholarship of Community Engagement.” ...continue reading "Good Reads: The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL)"
Sign Up Now: Centering Social Justice in Community Engagement
On Thursday, February 24th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET, The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) in collaboration with the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan will host a conversation titled, “Centering Social Justice in the Scholarship of Community Engagement.” ...continue reading "Sign Up Now: Centering Social Justice in Community Engagement "
Good Reads: AAC&U Report on Practices that Shape Student Learning
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) released a new report that examines how undergraduate learning and student success are affected by “an institution’s common learning outcomes and commitment to equity as well as by specific educational experiences and assessment practices.” ...continue reading "Good Reads: AAC&U Report on Practices that Shape Student Learning "
Apply Now: 8th annual Course Design Institute
GW’s Faculty Development department, part of Libraries and Academic Innovation, is now accepting applications for the 8th annual Course Design Institute (CDI). This immersive program will be held online from May 16-20. ...continue reading "Apply Now: 8th annual Course Design Institute "
Call for Proposals: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference
UC Santa Cruz will be hosting its “All-In” Conference on October 26-28, 2022. The conference brings together university scholars, community-based practitioners and researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundation program officers, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for action.
The call for proposals is open! Submission deadline is May 15, 2022.
To apply, fill out an interest/proposal submission form, including a brief summary of how you or your team would like to participate and what you would like to present.
To learn more about the conference and participation, click here.
Funding Opportunities: HumanitiesDC
HumanitiesDC is now accepting applications for the following grant programs:
Humanitini Curator Grant – HumanitiesDC is offering the opportunity for you to present your original humanities research through the Humanitini Curator Grant. Each Curator creates a public humanities event based on their research or area of expertise. As part of the application, prospective curators need to fully describe this research topic, and where it is situated within a wider humanities field. Applicants may request up to $5,000.
DC Community Heritage Project Grant – The DC Community Heritage Project (DCCHP) Grant provides residents and groups at the grassroots level the chance to capture the culture and narratives of their own communities through public humanities projects, such as: written publications, documentary films, websites, lesson plans, tours, and many more. As part of the grant program, these projects are also showcased annually in a culminating event. Applicants may request up to $10,000.
DC DOCS Partnership Grant – DC DOCS provides financial resources to established filmmakers interested in telling a humanities story about Washington, DC through a documentary feature (greater than 40 minutes long) or short film (capped at 40 minutes including credits). Applicants may request up to $35,000.
Humanities Vision Partnership Grant – HumanitiesDC’s Humanities Vision Grants provide financial resources to community organizations interested in creating innovative interpretations of humanities scholarship for public audiences. Applicants may request between $5,000 and $30,000.
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