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Published on Leave a comment on Student Opportunities at the Fall 2017 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship

At the end of each semester, the Nashman Center hosts the Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship. This event invites students, faculty, and community partners to share their experiences, disseminate findings, and learn about many other campus/community initiatives.

The Fall Symposium will take place on Friday, December 8th, Marvin Center 3rd floor. Students involved in a service-learning project will have an opportunity to present posters and be recognized for their work. Contact Wendy Wagner for more information at wagnerw@gwu.edu.

Posters will be presented during the 3-4pm session, where there will be a reception as well. Poster guidelines are as follows:

Poster Parameters/Guidelines

  • You don’t have to be present to have your poster be present at the symposium-however you must drop your poster off at the Nashman Center by Thursday, December 7th at 5:00 pm if you wish to have your poster presented without you. If you want to present with your poster you need to be in the Marvin Center grand ball room with your poster by 3:00 to present until 4:00 during the reception.
  • Posters don’t have to be fancy, “science fair” style posters dimensions 28” x 40” or 36” x 48” are perfect but if you have something prepared that’s in the ball park of these dimensions that is okay. We’ll have tables set up so if you have a tablet or laptop showing videos, photos or audio to accompany your board –there’s a place for that (just make sure they are charged before-hand since we won’t have access to outlets).
  • Individual OR group/organization OR class poster presentations are welcomed and encouraged!

To participate in the GW Symposium Poster Session, please contact rachellt@gwu.edu by with November 20th with the name of your group and whether you intend to present your poster in person or submit it for display.

Poster Highlights

  • Posters should be clear about who YOU are (name of the group) and who YOUR COMMUNITY PARTNER is.
    • Include the name of your partner organization, their mission and relevant programs, and how they partnered with your group
  • The emphasis of this event is community-engagement as a scholarly endeavor. This means we emphasize:
    • What you learned/are learning
    • The outcomes/intended outcomes for the community you are working with
  • Be sure your poster is clear about how your work is a demonstration of community-engaged scholarship.
    • Show how you are trying to learn about an issue or answer a question through the service or community action

Examples of categories to include in Community Action and Service posters (your poster may not have all/any of these depending on your action/service scholarship):

  • What did you learn/are you learning by engaging in this initiative?
  • What were your research questions or inquiry models?
  • Did you collect any information? (data, charts, interviews, photos, historic data)
  • How will your work impact this policy issue or community problem?

Here are a few other opportunities to choose from for students at the Fall 2017 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship:

9:30-10:15 am Faculty Breakfast

Presentations and discussion about current and community partnerships in DC Public Schools from the Nashman Center’s Engage DC program and VISTA leadership. Learn more about opportunities to engage your students and your scholarship with the DC Public School System.

10:30-11:45am Sessions, Marvin Center, 3rd Floor:

- Direct Service and Pathways to Citizenship

Student panelists are engaged in direct service experiences through a variety of GW courses.

Moderated by Amy Cohen, Executive Director of the Nashman Center

- Community Engaged Scholarship & Entrepreneurship at GW

Student panelists are engaged in social entrepreneurship through a variety of GW programs, including the GW New Venture Competition and the Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning.

Moderated by Scott Stein, Associate Director, Student Entrepreneurship Programs

- Civic House Proposals for GW Engagement

Students in the Civic House program propose new GW partnerships to address issues such as food insecurity in DC, LGBTQ+ Civil Rights, and homelessness

Moderated by Colleen Packard, Graduate Coordinator of Civic House

12:00-1:15pm Lunch Marvin Center, 3rd Floor please note lunch is free but you must RSVP for lunch at this link http://evite.me/Gxv4dt8uKN

1:30-2:45pm Sessions, Marvin Center, 3rd Floor:

Community Engagement in STEM Fields

Student panelists are engaged in the community through a STEM course.

Moderated by Tara Scully, Department of Biology

 Operación Impacto: Daring to step up in our commitment to Civic Values and Civic Action

Students engaged through coursework in Spanish 3040 and through Operación Impacto and   Chávez~Huerta 2018 will present their work, vision and experiences. The Campaigning for Change award will be introduced as part of a call to action during this session.  Note: while all are welcome to attend, this session will be conducted in Spanish.

Moderated by Dolores Perillan, Spanish program

Senior Well-being in DC

Students in the Human Services and Social Justice program present their findings and recommendations for DC as an “Age Friendly City” to staff from the DC Office on Aging.

Moderated by Emily Morrison, Program Director of Human Service and Social Justice

Eco Equity Challenge

In Washington, D.C., under-served communities bear the burden of the worst environmental hazards.  The Eco Equity Challenge provides students with funding to implement a project that brings together sustainability and social justice to make a real impact in communities in the District.  Join this workshop to explore the concept of environmental justice and begin to develop your own idea for a project with the guidance of our staff.  Applications for the Eco Equity Challenge are accepted through February 16th.

Moderated by Jonathan Butler and Kimberly Williams

Published on Leave a comment on Faculty Development Grants: Due Feb 2, 2018

The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service distributes grants annually to support community-engaged scholarship and teaching at GWU. These awards promote the development and institutionalization of new community-engaged scholarship opportunities that are consistent with the University strategic plan. For more information and an application, email Wendy Wagner at wagnerw@gwu.edu.

The Nashman Faculty Grants for Community-Engaged Scholarship support:

  • Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) initiatives;
  • Development of new community-engaged scholarship (including service-learning) courses;
  • Efforts to engage entire departments in community-engaged scholarship through an integration of teaching, learning and research;
  • Activities that promote individual or group professional development in community-engaged scholarship.

Published on Leave a comment on Julian Clement Chase Prize Winner to Present Her Research

Victoria Rowe, the winner of the 2017 Julian Clement Chase Prize, will be presenting on her work on October 19th at 4pm, in the GW Museum/Textile Museum, as part of the keynote event at the University Writing Program’s Fall 2017 Research and Writing Conference. We encourage you to attend and learn more about her community-engaged research work.

The Julian Clement Chase Prize annually recognizes exceptional research writing focused on the District of Columbia. Please consider how your course assignments might support scholarship that is competitive for the prize. For more information, please contact Dr. Phyllis Ryer, pryder@gwu.edu.

Ms. Rowe's research, "Seek First to Understand: Exploring the Implementation of Cultural Relevant Education in the District of Columbia" was completed as an Honors Thesis in the Human Services and Social Justice program. For this study, Rowe reviewed the literature on the positive effects of culturally relevant education practices and interviewed DCPS teachers to discover whether they use this approach and whether the DCPS professional development programs have helped them to do so.

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s Morrison and Wagner Publish Research on Community-Engaged Faculty

The Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning recently published a study by Drs Morrison and Wagner. The study explored the perspectives of community-engaged faculty on their work and professional identity and revealed five distinct approaches.

From the abstract:

Data analysis using Q Methodology and focus groups of faculty who self-identified as being engaged in the community revealed a Community-Engaged Faculty Typology, with five distinct types. Each type is described in detail, followed by a discussion of the emergent typology, its limitations, and its implications for research, theory, and practice. Specifically, the findings from this study suggest that all five approaches to CES should be considered when training, developing programs, supporting, and reviewing the contributions of community-engaged faculty.

Published on Leave a comment on Corporation for National and Community Service NEW Data Sharing Platform

"Data from the 2016-2017 reports is now available on CNCS Open Data, the agency’s new public data-sharing platform! Dynamic, clickable maps can be found on every state’s State Profiles page. Or if you want to slice and dice the data by organization, grant type, other geographies, and more, jump straight to the data here.

All of the data is downloadable in easy-to-use formats like Excel, and all of the maps can be embedded right on your own webpages. We encourage you to poke around the platform, play with the data, and of course, share!

For any questions regarding the data or platform, contact us at OpenData@cns.gov."

Published on Leave a comment on Info Session: Community-Based Participatory Research at GW

This informative presentation is recommended for faculty and students with an interest in learning more about Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). CBPR is research conducted on significant social issues, in collaboration with local residents, to provide potential solutions and contribute to long-term, sustainable change in the community.

Amy Cohen, Executive Director of the Nashman Center will open with a presentation on the foundational principles of CBPR. Then, Sara Policastro and Charleene Smith, the student winners of the Nashman Prize for CBPR at GW's Research Days will present their research studies. The session will wrap with a collective conversation about the unique rewards and challenges of CBPR.

  • Monday, May 1st
  • 2-2:50 pm
  • Marvin Center, Room 307
  • Tea and dessert reception to follow

This session is a part of the Nashman Center's Service-Learning Symposium. Click here for the full program.

Published on Leave a comment on Nashman Prize Winners Announced

The Nashman Prize is awarded annually at GW Research Days to recognize outstanding Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). CBPR is conducted on significant social issues, in collaboration with local residents, to provide potential solutions and contribute to long-term, sustainable change in the community.

At GW Research Days this year, twenty-six students from a wide variety of majors submitted their research to be considered for the Nashman Prize. The top prize was awarded to Sara Policastro, an undergraduate student in the Human Services and Social Justice program for her study, Market Manager Relationships Around Financial Incentive Programs at D.C. Farmers Markets.  The second place prize was awarded to Charleene Smith, also an undergraduate in the Human Services and Social Justice program, for her study, Black Reproductive Freedom: Contraceptive Counseling.

The judges were very pleased with the quality of the research studies for this special category and look forward to even more undergraduate research projects aimed at engaging with the community to conduct research that leads to concrete action.

Many thanks to the Nashman Faculty who served as poster presentation judges. Please contact Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu) if you are interested in learning more about CBPR - for your own work or in support of the student researchers you advise.

Published on Leave a comment on Research Day: Seeking Faculty to Serve as Judges for Nashman Prize

Please support our students by serving as a judge for The Nashman Prize on Research Day.

When: April 4th, noon-1pm.

Where: 3rd Floor, Marvin Center

What: The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service will once again be awarding the Nashman Prize for research that represents community-based participatory research (CBPR). CBPR is research on significant social issues that occurs in collaboration with local community residents with the aim to provide potential solutions and contribute to long-term, sustainable change in the community.

Judges are needed to review poster presentations by students submitting a research study for the Nashman Prize. Judges receive a complimentary lunch and much gratitude for supporting students doing community-engaged scholarship.

Contact Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu) if you are interested - many thanks!

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s Research Days to again feature the Nashman Prize for CBPR

For your students submitting research for GW's Research Days (submissions are due Feb. 28th) please encourage those who conducted Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to "tick the box" to submit their study for the Nashman Prize ($300 for first place, $200 for second).

The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service will once again be awarding the Nashman Prize for research that represents community-based participatory research (CBPR). CBPR is research on significant social issues that occurs in collaboration with local community residents with the aim to provide potential solutions and contribute to long-term, sustainable change in the community.

If you have questions about CBPR or the Nashman Prize, please contact Wendy Wagner at wagnerw@gwu.edu. Click here for information about last year's Nashman Prize winners.

Published on Leave a comment on GW Faculty Present Research at IARSLCE

This week, Dr. Emily Morrison and Dr. Wendy Wagner presented the findings of their research on the perspectives of community-engaged faculty at the annual International Association for Research in Service Learning and Community Engagement conference. Both a symposium session on the implications of the findings for practice and a poster presentation on the research study itself were well received. Stay tuned for a presentation on the findings here at GW as well as an article currently in press.

Published on Leave a comment on New Publication Co-Edited by Wendy Wagner, Nashman Faculty Fellow

Leadership Development through Service-Learning, a new book in the New Directions for Student Leadership series, was co-edited by Wendy Wagner, the Nashman Center's Nashman Faculty Fellow. Copies are available to borrow from the Nashman Center Service-Learning Library. The table of contents is below.

 

 

Leadership Development through Service-Learning: New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 150

Wendy Wagner (Editor), Jennifer M. Pigza (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-119-28924-1

 

Table of Contents

EDITORS’ NOTES 5
Wendy Wagner, Jennifer M. Pigza

1. The Intersectionality of Leadership and Service-Learning: A 21st-Century Perspective 11
Wendy Wagner, Jennifer M. Pigza

Grounded in a review of the schools of thought that guide leadership and service-learning, the authors propose a set of values to guide leadership educators in their service-learning practice.

2. Complementary Learning Objectives: The Common Competencies of Leadership and Service-Learning 23
Corey Seemiller

This chapter includes a thorough analysis of leadership competency development through service-learning and offers practical advice for course and program development and assessment.

3. Fostering Critical Reflection: Moving From a Service to a Social Justice Paradigm 37
Julie E. Owen

Reflection on service-learning is core to modern approaches to leadership. This chapter offers both the theory and practice of developmentally sequenced critical reflection.

4. Community Partnerships: POWERful Possibilities for Students and Communities 49
Jennifer M. Pigza

Community partnerships for service-learning are the most generative when they are grounded in the theory and practice of 21st century leadership.

5. Reimagining Leadership in Service-Learning: Student Leadership of the Next Generation of Engagement 61
Magali Garcia-Pletsch, Nicholas V. Longo

This chapter argues for service-learning to reach its democratic potential by unleashing the power of student leadership in a democratic educational process.

6. Decentering Self in Leadership: Putting Community at the Center in Leadership Studies 73
Eric Hartman

This case study explores the student and community benefits of a two-semester leadership course in which students engaged in service, education, and advocacy based in a community-identified issue of
justice.

7. Intersecting Asset-Based Service, Strengths, and Mentoring for Socially Responsible Leadership 85
Lindsay Hastings

Grounded in an asset-based approach to leadership development, a youth mentor program creates a cascading effect of leadership development.

8. Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership: Using a Theoretical Model at the Intersection of Youth Leadership Education and Service-Learning 97
Vicki Ferrence Ray

This case study of the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership organization (HOBY) promotes the idea that leadership is action in service to humanity.

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