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The DC Government Office of Out of School Time is offering a series of virtual workshops for those who work with youth.

April 24, 2024 (1:00 PM) A Quick Guide for Creating Spaces of Belonging for Neurodivergent Youth

May 1st (9:30 AM) Restorative Justice

May 15th (10:15 AM) Conflict Resolution

May 16th (10:00 AM) Cooperative Learning

For more information on the OST Institute for Youth Development and a list of available trainings, please visit us here: Professional Development Opportunities | learn24 (dc.gov).

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GW is a member of The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN). It is an excellent way to connect with other faculty who work in institutions similar to ours.
TRUCEN has announced their Sustained Conversation Groups for AY 24-25. Consider your options and register here by May 15. These conversation groups will launch in June.
Note GW's own Maranda Ward will continue to facilitate her conversation group on equity-focused community -based research!

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GW Votes

GW Votes is a nonpartisan coalition hosted in the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service that promotes voter registration, education, and participation on GW’s campus and beyond. You are welcome to join them! gwvotes@gwu.edu

GW Votes Faculty Toolkit

The GW Votes' Faculty Toolkitwill guide you through the process of encouraging and supporting your students in participating in the upcoming elections. It includes a section on incorporating this work into your syllabi this Fall. Now is a great time to check it out.

The Role of College Faculty in Student Voting

If you missed the Nashman Center's April Conversation on The Role of College Faculty in Student Voting, we highly recommend it. Nancy Thomas, Founder of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education,

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Nashman Center Affiliate Faculty member Anna Kimmel (Corcoran School of Art and Design) invites us all to attend this performance. If community engaged scholarship from the dance department piqued your interest, then you need to be here!

this place, could be
April 18-20, 2024
Betts Auditorium
Co-choreographed by Anna Jayne Kimmel and Leo Hylton, music by Heather Stebbins

TICKETS HERE

...continue reading "Performance Event: Community Engagement, Advocacy, and Dance"

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Great news from the National Council of Nonprofits for your community partners (help us pass along the word to them).

The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has announced major reforms to the Uniform Guidance, the set of common rules governing most federal grantmaking to charitable nonprofits, state, local, and Tribal governments, and others.

...continue reading "Significant Improvements to Federal Grants Rules for Charitable Nonprofits"

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The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is hosting its annual Institute on Engaged and Integrative Learning (IEIL) virtually from July 16–19, 2024. This institute provides a collaborative opportunity for institutions to explore evidence-based strategies that enhance student learning experiences both on campus and in the community.

The institute offers mentorship from experienced faculty and resources to create an action plan for advancing engaged and integrative learning at your institution. Interested GW faculty and administrators should apply as soon as possible. The priority deadline is April 30.

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Fran Buntman (Sociology) and Wendy Wagner (Nashman Center) have been selected for the Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholars program (hosted by Clemson University and supported through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). They will spend the coming year engaged in nation-wide Faculty Learning Communities, attend an institute and several convenings, and will ultimately create and disseminate educational materials on civic and voting rights education. These include in-class learning activities, as well as syllabi that bring issues of civic engagement and voting rights into the classroom. 

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If the upcoming election is important to you, this is a great way to get involved. The GW Votes Task Force is a nonpartisan university-wide coalition dedicated to ensuring that everyone in the GW community who is eligible to vote in US elections will do so in each election.

...continue reading "GW Votes Task Force Seeks Faculty Participation"

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Conversations on Community Engaged Scholarship: What is the role of college faculty in student voting?
Tuesday, April 23 | 4-5pm | Zoom
Register Here

Regardless of discipline, we believe connecting the classroom to the world includes discussing the importance of voting. Join us for this zoom-based panel discussion.

...continue reading "Conversations on CES: What is the role of college faculty in student voting?"

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Collaboratory, LEAD California, and NC Campus Engagement are excited to share their upcoming webinar, Achieving Transformational Change in Promotion and Tenure Policies for Community-Engaged Teaching and Scholarship.  Please consider joining us on Tuesday, April 16, 1-2:30pm EDT for a panel discussion including:

  • David Donahue, University of San Francisco
  • Jennifer Yee, California State University Fullerton
  • Andy Furco, University of Minnesota

These experienced faculty, administrators, and researchers will

...continue reading "Webinar: Achieving Transformational Change in P&T Policies for CES"

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Each year HumanitiesDC awards about $1 million dollars to DC residents, groups and organizations through a series of community grant opportunities to support exciting public humanities endeavors that bring people together to explore the history, culture, relationships and topics that shape our city’s communities.

"This cycle we are offering $25,000 in grants for Capacity Building which helps humanities-based non-profit organizations strengthen their ability to advance their missions, as well as $25,000 in grants for youth-powered programming for ages 11-24 that uses the humanities as tools to explore critical questions about the world around them. Applications are due by 5:59 PM, May 1, 2024."

For more information on Cycle II grants, click on our grantmaking page.

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"For the Winter 2024 issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal, we are delighted to feature an article from Kerri Shelton from Columbus State University in Georgia, who reports on work done by a team of undergraduate researchers (chemistry and nursing majors) who worked to analyze 20th-century medical kits at the Columbus Museum.

...continue reading "Winter 2024 Issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement"

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National Center for Science and Civic Education (NCSCE) and Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) will be focusing on education and research on the critical civic challenge of water.  Floods, droughts, toxins, pollution, sea level rise--all threaten human health and well-being.  Indigenous people have always known that "Water is Life," and the use, misuse and waste of water is an existential matter for all humans.  Current projects focus on building water literacy and the water workforce, and supporting wastewater research in the US and abroad to identify and track emerging disease outbreaks.  A recent presentation of NCSCE Global Water Fellows project is here:  Water: The Wickedest Problem

 

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ORGANIZING CULTURE CHANGE: PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP DIALOGUE AND REFLECTION TOOLS. AN IMAGINING AMERICA TEACHING AND LEARNING CIRCLE WEBINAR

Tuesday April 30, 2024 | 4:00-5:30pm ET 

For more information and to register.  Full description below.

"This Imagining America Teaching and Learning Circle webinar is open to all and will engage IA’s newest tools: the Public Scholar Conversation Cards and the Public Scholar Imagination Guide....

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Do you have questions about the session proposal process? Join the CUMU team to learn more about the CUMU Conference and ask your questions about becoming a conference presenter in advance of the April 3 submission deadline.

https://www.cumuonline.org/cumu-annual-conference/call-for-proposals/?mc_cid=8fbef0fb91&mc_eid=76636730df

CUMU Conference Proposal Open Office Hours

Wednesday, March 20, 2 p.m. ET, Zoom

RSVP FOR THIS INFORMAL SESSION

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