In case you missed it, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently published this article, 15 Ways Colleges Are Mobilizing to Support Their Communities.
"As the pandemic has closed campuses, forcing higher education to reinvent itself, many colleges are also meeting this unprecedented moment with a renewed sense of purpose about their role in the community...."
The next edition of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Webinar Series is May 20th, Community Resilience and Healing during COVID-19. During this session, our guest speakers will share from their work how we can understand the factors that promote community resilience during COVID-19 and lessons learned about community healing in past traumas.
For more information about upcoming sessions and to view recordings of previous sessions.
Building on a decade of collaboration, the network of educational institutions and community organizations formerly known as The Globalsl Network has become The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative @CBGLCollab on Twitter or a group on Facebook.
The Collaborative is a network of educational institutions and community organizations that advances ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
The Collaborative does this through several specific mechanisms:
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The Community Works Institute is hosting its annual Summer Series virtually this year, beginning June 23, 2020.
CWI's 2020 VIRTUAL Summer EAST and WEST Institutes, on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability
Special Registration Opportunity, supported by a generous private funder.
• Register now at $699 per participant
The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies frequently hosts panel discussions locally at the Arena Stage theatre. During COVID-19, these are being held via Zoom. For information on upcoming events and to view video recordings on former discussions, see https://www.arenastage.org/civildialogues
Monday, May 25, from 4:00pm EST -5:30pm EST, the panel will discuss Politics in the COVID-19 Age: How to Make Democracy Work during the Pandemic.
Dr. Miller the Vice President for Research has announced that GW joined the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), "a new collaborative partnership committed to defining and building the growing field of public interest technology."
GW and the 35 other member colleges and universities of PIT-UN are committed to training future leaders to apply technology expertise to promote the public good and advance the public interest.
If you are motivated to solve complex problems, share ideas and build relationships with each other and faculty at other network institutions, please let join these conversations - email askovpr@gwu.edu.
Additionally, PIT-UN sponsors an annual Network Challenge that provides funding to member institutions interested in launching public interest technology initiatives or projects on their campuses. GW will be allowed to submit up to three proposals. The grant amounts can be $45,000, $90,000 or $180,000, inclusive of a 20% overhead rate. Interested faculty will need to submit their CV and a two-page description of their proposed project by May 26 via OVPR’s InfoReady portal.
Our regional Campus Compact association, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic is hosting a series of facilitated virtual discussions for faculty and staff. These are great opportunities to share what you are doing and learn from others in our area (DC, Maryland, Delaware).
Thursday, May 14th, 11am: How are you supporting your nonprofit partners in capacity building?
To register and view other upcoming CCMA events: https://midatlantic.compact.org/events/
JHEOE is an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on advancing theory and practice related all forms of outreach and engagement between higher education institutions and communities. The latest issue is available at https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/issue/view/203
Table of Contents:
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Community Science is hosting a panel on May 14, 2020 at 12:45 as a part of their4-part webinar series on building community capacity for change during a crisis. Register here.
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina have partnered to launch this webinar series, Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID19.
Sessions are on Wednesdays at 1pm EST.
View upcoming and past sessions here: http://www.ccphealth.org/covid-19-equity/?mc_cid=9c6ac5dd0d&mc_eid=db5e1adac3
Read the latest issue of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North CarolinaCampus Compact’s peer-reviewed, online journal, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The journal is available online here.
All volumes (2009-2019) are archived and are available for download. Visit the Partnerships Archive.
The Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is awarded annually at the GW Research Showcase. CBPR is an approach to research that involves community organizations and/or residents in the research process, with the aim of making a positive, sustainable contribution to the community. We are happy to announce the winners for 2020.
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