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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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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. 

The following chapters need authors: ...continue reading "Call for Chapter Authors: Transformational Innovations: Mental Health Counseling, Cultural Inclusion, and Social Justice Advocacy in Higher Education"

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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.

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Campus Compact’s 2023-2024 Intercultural Development Fellow, Lissa Schwander is gathering information about Intercultural Development work on campuses. Campus Compact is looking for community engagement practitioners to give feedback and information about the resources and tactics used to prepare students, faculty, staff, and community partners for participation in community/civic engagement. Click here share your experiences and learn more.

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Join Campus Compact and the American Association of Colleges and Universities in the effort to better the strategies used to increase student civic engagement. They will be creating teams to audit the strategies that have already been in place as a means to creating new and improved ones. The info session for this program will be held on March 27,2024 at 2:30 pm. Click here to learn more.

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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.

Student Panelists:

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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.

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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.

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We kicked off a new semester with a wine and cheese networking event for the continuing Conversations on Community Engaged Scholarship series. Maranda Ward (SMHS) facilitated a fact-filled and data-driven discussion about our city. Ward emphasized not just recent data on health and wellbeing disparities but also highlighted the assets and strengths throughout the city.

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.

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George Washington University School of Nursing Associate Professor Sherrie Flynt Wallington went into DC communities and worked with Black fathers addressing the role they play addressing the disparities in maternal mortality.  Read this Q&A with Associate Professor Sherrie Flynt Wallington published in GW Research Magazine.

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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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There is always more evidence that community engaged scholarship is valuable. This study from the Pew Charitable Trusts reports that higher education is increasingly rewarding faculty for this work as well.

Universities Take Promising Steps to Reward Research that Benefits Society

The paper provides cases from 13 universities and 10 higher education organizations that offer faculty incentives and benefits (mainly through tenure and promotion policies) for scholarship that has public benefit.

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Our congratulations to Nashman Center Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Tamara Taggart, on being selected to this new role with the DC CFAR (Center for AIDS Research). Their "Core" program was created to help prepare the next generation of DC-based HIV investigators for leadership positions in the DC CFAR. Dr. Taggart is a faculty member in the GWSPH.

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New from Metropolitan Universities Journal

Vol. 34 No. 5 (2023): Developing and Sustaining Institutional Support for Community-Engaged Research

Guest editors: Emily Zimmerman, Ph.D., and Sarah Raskin, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

Community-engaged research is a critical component of the community engagement landscape, as well as broadening the research enterprise at urban campuses to include communities. Creating the essential infrastructure to support this work requires new ways of thinking about the role of institutions and interdisciplinary programs in community engagement, research development, and research support. Applying the models and frameworks in this issue can provide approaches for campuses to strengthen and commit to community-engaged research in strategic ways.

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