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"
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Voice of The Residents: Understanding Physical Activity in DC Ward 8
For the month of October, images from a photovoice research study by recent Milken graduate, Roger Isom, Jr., MPH, will be on display at the ArtReach GW Community Gallery, Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC).
This community driven research work, Voice of The Residents: Understanding Physical Activity in DC Ward 8, will be shared through a photo exhibition, which visually narrates the lived experiences of eight Black male adult residents living in DC Ward 8.
...continue reading "GW CBPR Research Featured in ArtReach GW Community Gallery"
The Annual Diversity Summit, presented by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, aims to create a space for attendees to engage in critical, thoughtful, and challenging dialogue to inform how we understand ourselves, the larger landscape of higher education, and ways to continue building the most inclusive campus climates on individual and communal levels.
The annual summit features workshops, lectures, panels, and poster presentations on a variety of diversity-related topics, including race and racism, bias, sexuality and gender, and religion, faith, spirituality, and beliefs, and more.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal you can do so here. Proposals are due October 9th, 2019.
If you would like to sign up to volunteer and spread the word, sign up here.
