Dr. Sara Hooshangi is saying goodbye to GW after ten years as the inaugural director of the Integrated Information, Science and Technology (IIST) bachelor’s degree program
Dr. Hooshangi has been a friend of the Nashman Center and a champion of community engaged scholarship in the STEM fields. We will miss you Sara - all our best to you.
For more information, link here for the announcement in the College of Professional Studies newsletter.
The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement has announced a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on the Challenges and Promises of Community Engagement Scholarship. The special issue co-editors are Theodore R. Alter, Susan Gust, Beth Velde, and Hiram E. Fitzgeraldl.
The editors of the special issue are particularly interested in papers that illustrate the potential and reality of how CES impacts such problems when approached through community and higher education partnerships. Read on for further information:
...continue reading "Call for Papers: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement"
We encourage you to listen to this recent "Higher Ed Rewired" podcast episode, with a great example of community engagement in STEM.
CSU East Bay students build off-grid solar power and lighting systems designed to alleviate energy poverty—a lack of access to modern energy services. These projects are completed alongside K-12 students, as peer-led service-learning projects. This design creates opportunities for college students to use their learning to do problem solving and excites K-12 students in STEM fields.
Link to the podcast episode here.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced a new program at Anacostia High School: the Safer Stronger DC Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement’s (ONSE) Leadership Academy – a school-based initiative aimed at promoting school and community safety by providing wraparound services and mentorship through direct engagement with students and their families. Link to the full announcement.
We look forward to learning how GW can partner with DC Public Schools on the community schools approach through the "Connected Schools" initiative.
This school year, Anacostia became one of ten DCPS Connected Schools – a new $1.6 million investment by Mayor Bowser to take the community schools model to the next level. Connected Schools take a whole child, whole school, whole community approach by transforming schools into spaces that support not only a student’s academic development, but a family’s overall wellbeing through access to resources related to health, employment, housing and more. The ONSE Leadership Academy is an example of how Connected Schools transform the way DC agencies work together to break down persistent in-school and out-of-school barriers students face.
You are invited to participate in, All-in: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice. Co-presented by University of California, Santa Cruz and the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN). This is a three-day national conference that will share "strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for truly equitable co-production of knowledge."
There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only inter-disciplinary approaches but recognizing the value of community-based knowledge and its potential contribution to developing solutions to pressing problems.
Proposal submission deadline: January 6th, 2020. Click here for more information.
A social call for social justice writing assignments has been issued from our colleagues at Prompt, a Journal of Academic Writing Assignments Prompt. This journal publishes previously taught writing assignments with commentary by the author, and they are interested in writing assignments from any discipline that tackle social justice issues, activism, or civic engagement.
Proposals are due January 15th
Link for more information: Prompt Call for SJ Assignments
The Veterans for Peace organization is offering a $500 cash prize for the best personal essay by an area student reflecting on the exhibit opening at GW's Elliott School of International Affairs on Veterans Day, November 11, 2019.
Students may relate their essays to the exhibit itself, the companion book or any of the related events held at GWU during the week of November 11. See program events at http://bit.ly/WagingPeaceDCEvents
Essays should be between 650 words to a maximum of 1,200 words and mailed to info@WagingPeaceInVietnam.com. Submissions must include applicant’s full name, full name of school, and applicant’s email address and phone number.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m., December 1, 2019
GW Teaching Day is Friday, September 27th and will feature a workshop presentation on integrating community engagement into course design (11am-noon, Marvin Center 3rd floor).
There will also be poster presentations on community engaged research and findings from our first year of data collection on the experience of students in community engaged scholarship courses. Those who may have missed the September Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship: The Big Data Share are encouraged to visit the poster session to see what they missed.
The Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Conference (SLCE) is a full-day opportunity to share success strategies among students, faculty, and staff at institutions throughout Maryland, D.C., and Delaware on the topics of community service, service-learning and civic engagement.
The 2019 Conference will be held on Saturday, November 16th, 2019 at the University of Maryland, College Park Adele H. Stamp Union.
For more information about submitting a proposal, please review the Call for Proposals.
Those interested in serving on the Conference Planning Committee, please fill out the Committee Member Application.
Follow the SLCE Conference on Facebook and Twitter to stay updated!
The Coalition for Community Writing is hosting its annual Conference on Community Writing this year on October 17-19 in Philadelphia. The list of community writers and artists, scholars, teachers, change makers, and students this year includes keynote presentations by: Carmen Kynard, Paula Mathieu, and Michelle Ortiz .
The conference will include DeepThink Thanks on food an environmental justice, immigration, decolonizing education and racial justice, youth activism, and gentrification led by leaders in our field and communities.
Workshops on topics from writing in prisons and schools to cross community social entrepreneurship projects to contemplative activism and self care.
With writing as the connective thread, we partner higher education with community-based efforts to tackle some of the world's most challenging issues.
Check out the program and or register for the conference here.
A few weeks ago, at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association, GW sociologist (and Nashman Faculty Affiliate), Greg Squires gave several talks on community engagement through scholarly work.
Dr. Squires was a panelist for a pre-conference session for department leaders, "Public Engagement in Faculty Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion." He also gave two other talks at the conference, "How to Bring Your Sociological Expertise to Not-for-Profit Organizations" a talk sponsored by the Sociology Action Network (SAN), and, "Leveraging Community Engaged Scholarship for Social and Institutional Change."
Dr. Squires has published on these topics as well, including this co-authored piece, "Is Collaborative, Community-Engaged Scholarship More Rigorous Than Traditional Scholarship?"
The September 5th, Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship focused on recent research findings, student surveys, and student service data.
The presentation slides from this event are available here.
The Periscope video is available here.
Wendy Wagner, the Nashman Center's director of community engaged scholarship, presented these findings and facilitated a conversation about uses of the data and new lines of inquiry for the coming year.
We are happy to present/discuss specific findings with your department faculty as well. Contact wagnerw@gwu.edu to schedule a department presentation.
While many topics arose, important themes were: cost of transportation to service sites, future data gathering and reporting, and further mining of the data from the MSL research study.
...continue reading "Conversations Series: The Big Data Share"
