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Join Campus Compact for May's The Research University Civic Engagement Network conversation about collaboration between universities and localities on the matter of climate change. This virtual event will take place on May 17th, 2023 from 2:00-3:15 pm. Click here to learn more and register.

Join The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative in partnership with Creative Inquiry@Lehigh University to host this year's Collaborative Unconference titled "Reimagining the "Impact" in Impact-Focused Education". Join like-minded scholars in discovering pathways toward innovative best practices in the field of inquiry-driven, impact-focused higher education. The conference will take place from June 7-9, 2023 at Leigh University. Click here to learn more and register.

Join GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design for their NEXT Festival from April 20 - May 20, 2023. "NEXT showcases the talents and scholarship of graduating Corcoran students. This year, the school is launching a festival format to expand the depth and breadth of its programming, with performances, exhibitions and symposia across campus". Events include photojournalism presentations, a dance concert, and more. Click here to learn more and RSVP for the events.

Join AAC&U and Credo in their 2023 Women in Leadership Institutes. This year's theme Leading with Longevity: Sustaining Self & Profession will be a mix of panel discussions, attendee-presented sessions, time with industry experts, and space for leader-to-leader conversation and reflection. This in-person institute will take place in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 28–29 for cabinet leaders and November 29–30 for presidents. Click here learn more and register.

The 2023 Imagining America National Gathering will focus on Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change. The conference will invoke "the cleansing work of fire, the changing form of water, the steadiness of the earth, and the ethereal nature of air, the 2023 IA National Gathering conjures the elements to guide the radical work of reckoning with the past to create a future of collective liberation". The conference will be held in person October 20-22, 2023 in Providence, Rhode Island. Click here to learn more and apply. 

The Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will open on Thursday, April 13th, with the faculty panel and continues on Friday, April 14th, beginning with a keynote speech followed by student presentations of their research. Starting with words from Faculty Chair, Américo Mendoza-Mori, PhD, of Harvard University’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, engaging in a dialogue with Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, PhD, Professor of Modern Languages, coordinator of French Global Studies, and Founding of South Carolina Centro Latino (El Centro) at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Mneesha Gellman, PhD, Associate Professor of political science in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, Wade Campbell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Archeology and Anthropology, Boston University, and Michel DeGraff, PhD, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Director of the MIT-Haiti Initiative and founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy, about the impact of identity on scholarship. For more information or to register click here. 

HumanitiesDC is now accepting applications for the Capacity Building Grant and has extended the deadline for the DC Oral History Collaborative. These applications are due May 2, 2023. HumanitiesDC is hosting online information sessions on Capacity Building Grant on April 5th at 12pm and April 18th at 12pmClick here to register for one of these sessions.

Join American University in a lecture given by Sierra Club president Ramón Cruz on improving the global environment. After the lecture, Cruz will speak with SIS professor Simon Nicholson, and an audience Q&A will follow the discussion. The event will take place Tuesday, April 4 · 6 - 8pm EDT at American University, School of International Service, Founders Room. Click here to learn more and register. 

Join the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health for their webinar on a public health lens on refugee health disparity during a pandemic. This webinar includes a panel of community and academic experts from Greensboro to discuss the impact COVID has had on this minoritized community, reveal their unique barriers to COVID vaccine uptake, and inspire equitable community engagement with practitioners and researchers to include refugees in their research and work. The webinar will be held on April 4th, 2023 from 12:00-4:00 pm. Register for the webinar here

Join the Elliot School of International Affairs and General Dynamics Information Technology Inc in a panel discussion and networking event on Supply Chain Across Borders. This event will explore how current events are impacting global supply chain issues. Hear from Flor Aguilar Kim, Tamika Abbott, Laura D'Antonio, and Alex McGuire. The advice will take place on April 11 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the Elliot School of International Affairs State Room. Click here to register.

 

Through their partnership with AmeriCorps, Transform Mid Atlantic aims to address poverty throughout the Mid-Atlantic region by placing AmeriCorps VISTA members within projects at member institutions and community-based organizations. Their work is focused on strengthening communities and developing their own skills as engaged leaders. Click here to view placement options.

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Read the latest issue of  Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ), Vol. 34 No. 2 (2023): The Pedagogy of Place-Based Initiatives and Anchor Institutions available now. See article list below.

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The Summer Institute on Teaching Social Action is a three day virtual institue aims to teach the experiential learning model where educators incorperate students creating socail campaigns as psrt of the course.The institute will take place virtually June 6 - 8 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM ESTClick here to learn more about the institue and apply.

Join the GivePulse staff, campus representatives from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Eastern Virginia Medical School for a webinar about how campuses address health equity and social determinants of health in their communities and they use GivePulse to do so. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, March 28th at 2 pm eastern/11 am pacific. To learn more and register click here.