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.
Category: Community Engaged Research
GW University Writing Conference: Student Panel on Community Engaged Writing
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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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.
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.
Welcome to DC: What Community Engaged Scholars Need to Know
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.
Good Reads: Building Bridges With Communities
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.
Webinar Feb 5: Promising P&T Reforms for Societally-Impactful Research
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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Good Read: Pew White Paper on Faculty Rewards for Public Scholarship
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.
Tamara Taggart appointed Director of DC CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Core
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.
Good Read: Institutional Support for Community Engaged Research
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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Professor SuJin Choi reflects on six years in the GWTeach program
Master Teacher in the GWTeach Program, SuJin Choi identified how limited internet and hands-on learning accessibility during COVID-19 hindered D.C. Public School students, slowly creating a learning gap.
A Look Into: (CES course) The GW Teach Program
Professor: SuJin Choi
The GWTeach program is an academic minor that prepares students in STEM majors for teaching licensure in Washington, D.C. In courses like GTCH 1002: Inquiry-Based Lesson Design, students design, teach, and assess learning in a STEM lesson. Students engage directly in local classrooms, like McKinley Middle School and DC Preparatory Academy, mentored by a Master Teacher.
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The Nashman Center’s Top CBPR Resources
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is, “a partnership approach to research that equitably involves community members, organizational representatives, and academic researchers in all aspects of the research process. It enables all partners to contribute their expertise, with shared responsibility and ownership; it enhances the understanding of a given phenomenon; and, it integrates the knowledge gained with action to improve the health and well-being of community members, such as through interventions and policy change” (Israel, Schulz, Parker, and Becker, 1998).
The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service supports CBPR through faculty mini-grants, student research prizes, and professional development programs like Faculty Learning Communities (FLC).
This collection of resources is the outcome of the 2022 FLC on CBPR in Health and the 2019 FLC on CBPR Basics.
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2023-24 Nashman Center Faculty Fellow: Dr. Tamara Taggart, GWSPH
We are proud to announce that for the 2023-24 year, Dr. Tamara Taggart will be serving as the Nashman Center Faculty Fellow. During the coming year, Dr. Taggart will conduct community-engaged formative research (surveys, interviews, focus groups, and environmental scans) to develop an Activist in Residence (AiR) program.
Activists in Residence is a practice model that provides opportunities for activists to engage with an academic community to develop and strengthen their capacity, network, resources, and work.
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Conversations: Community Based Participatory Research and the IRB Review
The Conversations on Community Engaged Scholarship Series is back for 2023-24. Join us for the first event of the year:
Community Based Participatory Research and the IRB Review
Wednesday, Oct 4, 4-5pm, by zoom
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Good Reads: Campus Compact Publication on “Common Cause: Public Service”
Campus Compact has released the inaugural issue of its Common Cause series on public service. In this issue, the authors discuss why public service is a critical focus and need for our country. Read more here.
