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Annual Point of Light Conference to Held in DC this June

wagnerwFebruary 15, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

The annual Points of Light Conference will be June 10-12, 2020, here in Washington, DC.

The Points of Light Conference is a global convening of nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders who connect, collaborate, gain and share the knowledge and resources needed to galvanize the power of people to create change. This year’s event will be the centerpiece of a yearlong celebration to mark Points of Light’s founding by President George H.W. Bush 30 years ago.

Civic life today requires that we look beyond traditional labels like “volunteer,” and empower people to express their desire to do good in ways that are meaningful to them: through the purchases they make, how they vote, in what they share on social media, where and how they choose to work, and what causes they support with their time or money.

What Does it Mean for GW to be an “Anchor Institution?”

wagnerwFebruary 10, 2020July 8, 2021Leave a comment

We recommend this piece by the Brookings Institution, "Can leading universities be engines of sustainable development?" The piece includes an interview with Judith Rodin, former president of the University of Pennsylvania and of the Rockefeller Foundation. Rodin recently authored a book, "The University and Urban Revival."

As an urban institution, Rodin's thoughts are particularly relevant for the GW community, including the role we should play as an "anchor institution" in DC, driving sustainable and equitable development. She includes service-learning courses in this approach, but also considerations related to opportunities for employment of local residents, and prioritizing local sources in procurement and purchasing.

Medical Faculty Development Post-doctoral Research Awards for Addressing Health Disparities

wagnerwFebruary 10, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

Please see this announcement from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2020 Call for Applications. The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. Scholars should be committed to working toward eliminating health disparities by achieving senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing.

The program provides scholars with:

development of research, academic, and leadership skills;
ongoing mentoring by a distinguished national advisory committee;
a grounding in the social determinants of health, health equity, and the elements of a Culture of Health.

In this grant cycle, RWJF will fund up to 10 four-year awards of up to $420,000 each. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each, complemented by a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities.

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Engagement Scholarship Consortium

wagnerwFebruary 5, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

This year's Engagement Scholarship Consortium annual conference will be nearby in Philadelphia, September 13-14, 2020. As a pre-conference event, the Consortium will be hosting a one-day intensive professional development program for early career faculty on community engagement. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2020. https://engagementscholarship.org/networks-partnerships/esc-partnerships/emerging-engagement-scholars-workshop

If you have an interest in attending, please contact Wendy Wagner, wagnerw@gwu.edu to discuss potential financial support from the Nashman Center.

Healing Education Arts and Advocacy Roundtable: March 11

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The AIM Health Institute, the GW Office of Integrative Medicine and Health, and LabX of the National Academy of Sciences present a Healing Education Arts and Advocacy Round Table.

These roundtables are a discussion at the intersection of medicine, the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. The topic will be: the effects of cannabis on society.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 6:30-8:30pm
GW Hospital

Tickets are free: https://www.healthaim.org/announcing-heaart-healing-education-arts-and-advocacy-round-table/

Important Community Partner Perspectives on Student Projects

wagnerwFebruary 5, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

Many important conversations have been sparked by a recent piece in Vu Le's "Nonprofit AF" blog, about the perspective of our community partners. Given the piece includes feedback from one our of local partners, a few of the cringe-worthy examples could very well be from a GW student.

Please take a moment to read the piece:

Guidelines for higher education programs that require students to do special projects with nonprofits

Share your Feedback on the Strategic Planning Interim Reports

wagnerwFebruary 5, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

The draft reports recommending a strategic plan to guide GW for the next five years are now available on line for questions, concerns, and suggestions. While the site is open for feedback anytime during the spring semester, Provost Blake urges review by March 6th, which will give the four committees time to consider all feedback before finalizing their recommendations in May for the Board of Trustees.

Explicit support for Community Engaged Scholarship is relevant for all four committees: high-impact research, high quality undergraduate experience, attracting and retaining world-class faculty, and a distinguished and distinctive graduate education.

While the Nashman Center and several Nashman Faculty Affiliates have submitted feedback on the draft reports, it is important that these committees realize how many GW faculty consider community engagement a valuable aspect of their research, teaching, and other scholarly work. Please take a moment to share your perspective.

Link: https://strategicplan.gwu.edu/updates

To view the Nashman white paper on "Recognizing, Incentivizing, and Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship" submitted to the High-Impact Research faculty committee, link here: https://gwu.box.com/v/NashmanCESwhitepaper

IJRSLCE: Call for Manuscripts for Volume 8

wagnerwFebruary 1, 2020April 21, 2020Leave a comment

The IJRSLCE Editors have issued a call for manuscripts for Volume 8 of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. The Editors are seeking submissions that reflect the breadth of scholarship in the service-learning and community engagement field, with articles from different disciplines and countries, reflecting a range of methodologies.

The Journal has five main sections: (1) Advances in Theory and Methodology; (2) Community Partnerships and Impacts; (3) Faculty Roles and Institutional Issues; (4) International Service-Learning and Community Engagement Research; and (5) Student Outcomes – Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education. In addition, there is a Book Review section.

The Author Guidelines are available at the IJRSLCE website; submissions are managed by ScholasticaHQ. To submit a manuscript, registration on the site is required. The deadline for submissions for Volume 8 is May 15, 2020.

IUPUI Research Academy Accepting Registrations

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Registration is now open for the 2020 IUPUI Research Academy.

"Convened from May 13-15, 2020 on the IUPUI campus, the Research Academy is an intense, interactive 3-day workshop designed to develop research, assessment, and evaluation skills, learn about methods, and develop a research and/or assessment project on high impact practices or other engaged learning. Convened since 2009, the Research Academy historically focused on service learning research. However, beginning in 2019 the Research Academy has expanded its scope to cover other types of high impact practices and engaged learning (e.g., themed learning communities, ePortfolios, global engagement)."

If you want to learn more, please read this article: https://www.airweb.org/collaborate-learn/reports-publications/eair-newsletter/article/2019/12/17/facilitating-the-study-of-engaged-learning-the-iupui-research-academy

Contact Tom Hahn (tomhahn@iupui.edu) if you have any questions.

Register for the Research Academy at: https://indianauniv.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/register.aspx?OrgCode=10&EvtID=9623&AppCode=REG&CC=119121004007

Imagining America: 2020 National Gathering, Oct 9-11

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Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and Tulane University has announced their 2020 National Gathering will be held October 9-11 in New Orleans, less than one month before the national Presidential election. The two organizations will work with local institutions and leaders in organizing this dynamic national conference.

"The Imagining America (IA) Gathering is an annual convening of public scholars, artists, students, designers, and leaders who are addressing critical public issues through creative cultural organizing, collaborative research, and engaged learning. The conference offers participants a three-day immersive experience in which to connect, dialogue, learn, and strategize around the ways to build new knowledge and inspire collective imagination towards transformative education and action.

New Orleans will serve as a powerful context in which to showcase local and global work around this year’s Gathering themes of displacement and movements."

Conference Presentation Opportunity for Students

wagnerwFebruary 1, 2020April 9, 2020Leave a comment

This year, the Engagement Scholarship Consortium 2020 Conference Planning Committee is particularly encouraging student participation in the conference: September 15-16, 2020, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"Students are invited to submit a proposal for a poster to be presented at the 2020 conference, detailing impactful community engagement through research or service work. Delivering a poster at an international conference is a unique academic experience and is an excellent addition to a résumé or graduate school application."

Please circulate this call for posters to students whose experiences support the conference's theme of "Envisioning Engaged Scholarship" and can help us explore our many diverse futures together.

NSEE: Call for Conference Presentations

wagnerwFebruary 1, 2020April 9, 2020Leave a comment

You are invited to submit a proposal to the National Society for Experiential Education's annual conference. Proposal deadline is February 7, 2020. The annual conference will be held in Salt Lake City from September 21 - September 23, 2020.

Nashman Center Shares White Paper on Support for Community-Engaged Scholarship

wagnerwJanuary 25, 2020May 2, 2024Leave a comment

The Nashman Center recently shared a white paper with the GW faculty-led strategic planning committee on High-Impact Research. This committee is one of four, who will draft strategic planning reports to guide GW for the next five years toward President LeBlanc's vision for: world-class faculty, high-quality undergraduate education, distinguished and distinctive graduate education, and high-impact research. https://strategicplan.gwu.edu

The white paper, "Recognizing, Incentivizing, and Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship" was reviewed by the members of the High-Impact Research faculty committee. It defines community-engaged scholarship, identifies the challenges to faculty doing this work in the context of departments that favor more traditional approaches to academic work, and provides a list of recommendations. It is a synthesis of the year-long discussions of the 2018 Nashman Center Faculty Learning Community on Recognizing Community-Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure, at George Washington University.

If you would like to add your name in support of the sentiments expressed in the paper, please write Wendy Wagner: wagnerw@gwu.edu.

2020 PHENND Conference: Housing – Feb 28

wagnerwJanuary 23, 2020April 21, 2020Leave a comment

The PHENND Conference (Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development) is an annual gathering for practitioners of campus-community partnership. This year, the theme is Housing.

"This gathering will be attended by 100-125 students, campus staff, faculty, and community organization staff active in community service, service-learning, and campus-community partnership work. While primarily targeting individuals who are part of the 25+ colleges and universities involved in the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND), this event is also open nationally to practitioners of campus-community partnership."

Greg Squires’ Recent Publication on Social Change

wagnerwJanuary 22, 2020April 9, 2020Leave a comment

Greg Squires, Sociology and Public Policy & Public Administration (and Nashman Affiliate Faculty) recently contributed an excellent piece to Social Policy about the nature of social change, "Limitations of the New Localism: Prospects for Progressive Change from the Bottom and Top." We encourage you to read and discuss this thought-provoking piece.