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.
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Street Sense Media and GW theatre professor emeritus Leslie Jacobson facilitate an annual theatre workshop to center the voices and experiences of the unhoused and formerly unhoused in DC. This year's on-campus performance also included a panel discussion about how to get involved in addressing DC's housing issues.
April 3rd, 4-5:30pm | USC, 3rd floor Amphitheatre
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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:
These experienced faculty, administrators, and researchers will
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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.
"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.
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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
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....
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.
CUMU Conference Proposal Open Office Hours
Wednesday, March 20, 2 p.m. ET, Zoom
Each semester the Nashman Center hosts a special session of the University Writing Program's University Writing and Research Conference. At the conference, UW 1020 students from the previous semester (nominated by a faculty member), share their research and writing experiences with an audience. The Nashman Center's session features students whose work also involved engagement in the community.
The panel, held February 29, 5-6pm, was moderated by Wendy Wagner, Director of Community Engaged Scholarship at the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.
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Our colleagues at Cornell have invited other institutions to attend this conversation. Please rsvp at the link to get the zoom.
Transformative Co-Creation: Epistemologies and Strategies for Collaborative Writing with Community Partners
Dr. Rachael Shah, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 12:00 PM,
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Wednesday, Jan 24, 4-5pm
University Student Center, Room #405
Dr. Maranda C. Ward is an Assistant Professor and Director of Equity in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In this role, she designs, evaluates, and teaches health equity curriculum for student and faculty learners.
Ward describes herself as a community educator, curriculum developer, and youth builder. She has strong commitments to service-learning, equity, community legacy, youth development, and honoring youth voice.
Dr. Ward is an expert in advancing anti-racism efforts within health professions education and in designing curricula to enable students and faculty to competently promote health and racial equity in practice. Her research focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and antiracism educational interventions as well as stakeholder-engaged community-focused studies on HIV, Black women's health, and youth identity. She is also skilled in the application of participatory action research methods.
Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis
January 16, 2024 | 11:00 am–12:30 pm EST
Join this webinar that will highlight multi-disciplinary research on what works in civic education, with a dialogue on re-orienting teaching and learning toward meaningful civic outcomes.
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The latest issue (Volume 11, Issue 2, 2023) of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE) is now online, along with a call for manuscripts for Volumen 12 (2024).
Published annually, the IJRSLCE is the scholarly journal of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE).
The call for manuscripts for Volume 12 (2024) is now open. Please see this announcement or the "For Authors" section of the Journal website for details.
Table of Contents below...
Webinar is February 5, 2024, 2pm, Register here
This webinar will explore findings from a new white paper from the Pew Charitable Trusts that scans promising reforms to faculty reward systems to recognize a wider range of scholarly contributions in promotion and tenure decisions. The project was commissioned by participants in the Transforming Evidence Funders Network (TEFN), facilitated by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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