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 Students who want to explore teaching careers become familiar with lesson plan development by writing, teaching, and observing lessons in an elementary school classroom. While students build and practice inquiry-based lesson design skills, they also become familiar with and practice classroom management in the elementary school setting.

For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW: https://go.gwu.edu/cesc

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North Carolina Community Engagement Administrators Conference is hosting its annual 2024 conference. They are calling for proposals for this year's conference themed Hope in the Face of High Waters and Headwinds: Deepening Engagement in Challenging  Times.  The conference will take place on June 13, 2024 in North Carolina. Submissions will be accepted until April 26, 2024. Click here to learn more and register.



Campus Compact and The Allstate Foundation have partnered together to form The Allstate Foundation Youth Action Board. This is an excellent opportunity for people ages 18-22 to further their leadership aspirations through participating in youth led service opportunities and national youth engagement efforts. Applications are due May 31, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.

AAC&U is calling for proposals for their 2024 Conference on Global Learning. The conference will take place October 24-26, 2024 in Washington DC. Proposals are due May 10, 2024. Click here to learn more.

This year the conference sessions will focus on:

  • Including all students in global learning;
  • Making the case for global learning at all levels: disciplinary, program, and institutional;
  • Advancing collaborative research to address global challenges through student learning;
  • Defining and framing global learning to meet local and global realities;
  • Integrating institutional inclusion efforts with global learning;
  • Exploring global learning in diverse international contexts;
  • Embedding and integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
  • Engaging and exploring belonging for international students with recognition of their individuality and intersectionality;
  • Exploring ways of integrating technology in global learning to improve the quality of learning and global engagement for students;
  • Connecting intercultural skills and cultural humility to student learning in academic and applied learning opportunities.

Join the next cohort of Campus Compact's Engaged Scholars Initiative. This program helps advance the skills of community and civically engaged early career scholars through bi-weekly meetings, workshops, coaching, and in-person retreats. Applications are due on April 19, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.

Join Campus Compact for their Changemakers Retreat. The Changemakers Retreat is an intensive, in-person leadership development experience intended to hone skills, build community, and empower current and aspiring changemakers. Participants will further their skills in civic and community engagement work on their campus through workshops, community building, and coaching. The next Changemakers retreat will take place from June 24-27, 2024 at Towson University. Click here to learn more and apply

The Tisch College Community Research Center offers an online Participatory Action Research course: June 10 – 14, 2024.  Click here for more information and registration.
Please see the course description: 

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Dr. Jose Maldonado of Liberty University is looking for chapter authors for his upcoming textbook Transformational Innovations: Mental Health Counseling, Cultural Inclusion, and Social Justice Advocacy in Higher Education. It covers issues interconnected with mental health in higher education. You may reach out directly to Dr. Maldonando (jmmaldonado1@liberty.edu) to inquire. 

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The International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement is calling for proposals for their 2024 conference. The theme of the conference this year is "Intersections". Click here for more information.

Submissions are encouraged to connect to the theme Intersections and the following thematic areas:

  • Community partnerships and non-university stakeholders
  • Student outcomes at K-12, Undergraduate and Graduate levels
  • Emerging technologies in SLCE
  • Faculty issues (promotion and tenure, learning communities, etc.)
  • Theory and methods
  • Using SLCE to address Sustainable Development Goals
  • Identity and indigeneity

Join LEAD California, IARSLCE and GivePulse in their next Dissertation Dish episode. In this episode Dr. Rochelle Smarr will present her dissertation Stories from the Field: Black Service-Learning Student Experiences. The aim of this research study is to provide a macro picture of Black student's experiences in service-learning through reflective semi-structured interviews. Click here to learn more and register.

Take a look at the most recent issue of Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, the premier journal of the Society of Experiential Education (SEE). Read articles on the connection between experimental learning and careers, peer tutoring in the experimental learning process, and other topics related to experimental learning. 

United Against Inequities in Disease (UAID) is a national nonprofit organization empowering students to reduce health inequities in their communities. Join them for their upcoming day-long virtual conference on April 13th, 2024. The theme of the conference is Underserved Patient Populations. They will discuss barriers that minority patient populations face when accessing healthcare. Through the work of our speakers and community projects, the conference aims to bring attention to these obstacles and how the community will address them as future healthcare and public health professionals. They are also accepting abstracts and poster submissions. Click here to learn more and register. Click here to submit an abstract or poster.

Join a webinar with esteemed panelists from around the nation who will discuss their experience in transforming promotion and tenure guidelines and policies at the departmental and institutional levels. Panelists include: David Donahue, University of San Francisco; Jennifer Yee, California State University Fullerton and Andy Furco, University of Minnesota. The panel took place on April 16, 2024.

Webinar Recording Available Here

Join the Engagement Scholarship Consortium and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach in a virtual discussion on the journal’s peer review process, including best practices for conducting a review and strategies for integrating reviewer feedback as an author. The talk will take place on April 24, 2024, from 12:00-1:00 p.m.. Click here to learn more and register.