Join Campus Compact in a virtual panel discussion with the authors published in the latest issue of the MJCSL. The discussion will cover the origins of the core commitments and building blocks of civic identity. This event will take place Thursday March 28, 2024 from 3:00-4:30. Click here to learn more.
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Read Now: Latest Publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations
Click here to read the latest publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal. This issue is on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations.
Links to each article in the issue are below:
Call for Proposals: Engineering Projects In Community Service in IEEE is Calling For Service Learning Projects
Engineering Projects In Community Service in IEEE is calling for proposals for service learning projects around addressing the technological needs of communities around the world. EPIC in IEEE is partnering with the Industry Application Society in this project to support service learning initiatives. The deadline is May 1,2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
Register Now: NYC Storytelling Workshop
Join former head of SMPA and Emmy Award winning journalist Frank Sesno in a workshop where participants will learn how to bring their venture idea to life and use the power of storytelling to expand their reach. This event will take place Thursday March 7th, 2024 from 12:00-1:30. Please encourage students to attend as well. Click here to register.
Register Now: Campus Compact Faculty-Centered Coalition Conversation: Integrating Civic Learning into Courses, Research, and Engagement
Join Campus Compact on a faculty centered conversation to explore leading innovative civic learning programs in engaged scholarship and teaching. Panelists will share practical examples and advice on integrating civic learning into their teaching, research, and community engagement activities. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the concepts further in smaller breakout groups. This conversation will be held on Friday, March 15, 2024, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Eastern. Click here to register and learn more.
Register Now: Campus Compact Students Centered on the Civic Stage: A Conversation with Student Civic Changemakers on what Civic Initiatives, Impacts, and Investments they Fight for Today and Dream for Tomorrow
Join the Campus Compact team and student panelists in a conversation about civic learning programs on their perspective campuses and their roles in these programs. The panel will feature GW’s own Dasia Bandy who is a Newman Civic Fellow. The panel will discuss the changes they are currently making and the changes they would like to see in the future. The panel will take place March 12th, 2024 from 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Eastern. Click here to learn more and register.
Good Reads: CCCC Statement on Community-Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy in Rhetoric and Composition
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) released a statement on community engaged scholarship. The statement advises on the various components of community engaged scholarship. Click here to read the full statement. Thank you to Dr. Ryder for passing along this information.
Register Now: IARSLCE Web Series
Join the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in a four-part web series to explore contemporary and cutting edge approaches to community-engaged research. Learn about youth participatory action research, data literacy and quantitative analysis of big data, trends and gaps in community-engaged dissertation research, and Carnegie Co-Labs. Sessions will include interactive conversations, as well as dynamic presentations by scholars in the field. Click here to learn more and register.
Apply Now: Institute on Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Institute on Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a resource to promote and support efforts by colleges and universities looking to advance project-based learning on their campuses. The Institute is a 2.5-day intensive workshop where teams of five or more faculty and administrators work with experts to learn about project-based learning and make tangible progress to integrate best practices into their own curricula. The Institute will run from Thursday, June 20, through Saturday, June 22, 2024, and is held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. Applications are due on March 1st, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
Tune In: Centering Indigenous Knowledge: Indigenous People and Place
Join Campus Compact throughout the month of March for this exciting webinar series from Montana Campus Compact. For 2024, The Centering Indigenous Knowledge webinar series will focus on the theme of Indigenous people and place and will explore people’s millennia-spanning relationships with and the significance, history, and power of place. Click here to learn more and register for one or all of the sessions.
Call for Abstracts: The American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
The American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo, Community Based Public Health Caucus invites your abstract submissions related to the science and practice of community-based public health. The 2024 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo will take place in Minneapolis, MN on October 27-30, 2024. They are looking for abstracts that advance our knowledge of community-academic partnering in multi-disciplinary collaboration and a diversity of community-based public health activities, including basic and applied research projects, interventions, teaching and service learning projects. Applications are due Friday, March 29, 2024. Click here to apply.
Apply Now: Virtual Institute on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers
Join the American Association of Colleges and Universities in a virtual session on learning about strategies for dismantling the belief in the hierarchy of human value on college campuses. Campus teams will engage in dynamic workshops, collaborate with experienced TRHT Campus Center mentors and workshop facilitators, and participate in the reflective Rx Racial Healing® Circles. These activities will help you to develop and refine transformative campus action plans that will drive sustainable change within your institution and communities. The institute will take place from June 25th, 2024- June 28th, 2024. Applications are due March 28th, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
Apply Now: Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship
Project Pericles is accepting applications for their Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship. Fellows will receive a $1,000 grant to use Periclean Civic Engagement Resources in the humanities for Spring- Fall 2024. These modules help educate students about voter suppression and bridge the gap between academic content and the real world. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
RSVP Now: Screening and Discussion Barry Farm: Community, Land and Justice
Join the Bertelsmann Foundation and the John Brademas Center of New York University for an in-person screening and panel discussion on, Barry Farm: Community, Land & Justice. This film was directed by Sabiyha Prince and Samuel George, who will join the discussion after the screening. The film tells the story of community, justice, and displacement in Washington DC through the lens of Barry Farm. The screening will take place on Thursday, February 29th, 2024 at 1307 L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20005. Click here to RSVP.
Call for Proposals: Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities 2024 Conference: Beyond Boundaries
The Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities is calling for proposals for their upcoming conference themed Beyond Boundaries. They are looking for proposals on the topics of anchor strategies, belonging, equity, and justice, democracy, impact, K-16 partnerships, and social and economic mobility. All proposals are due April 3, 2024. Click here to learn more.
