The William and Mary 2019 Active Citizens Conference will take place on March 23rd, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Join students, faculty, and community leaders coming together to learn about the best practices for impacting community and mobilizing social change.

Register for the conference by March 13. Thanks to generous sponsors the event will now be free with transportation provided by the Nashman Center, so this is a great opportunity to learn and collaborate with engaged students from across the area!

Contact Colleen (cmpack618@gwmail.gwu.edu) to secure transportation with Nashman. Students are encouraged to register by Friday March 1st so that we have time to secure registration & transportation.

Join DC Public Schools and Interim Chancellor Amanda Alexander for a panel discussion on civic and community engagement in our city and the Anacostia Community Museum’s A Right to the City exhibition. The panel will feature community leaders including DC At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds, Anacostia Community Museum Chief Curator Samir Meghelli, and Moten Elementary School Principal Akela Dogbe. Event details are included below:

RSVP HERE

• Date: Monday, December 10, 2018
• Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (The A Right to the City exhibition will be open from 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. for attendees.)
• Location: Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place, SE
• Tickets: This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP in advance of the event.

D.C. students are invited to the Postgraduate Service Fair at Georgetown University to explore opportunities for service after graduation. More information and registration can be found here and the Eventbrite page can be found here.

On Wednesday, October 17th, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., A Wider Circle will be hosting the 2018 Forum on Ending Poverty at the National Press Club.

Want to learn how one nonprofit organization is saving the state of Massachusetts $11,000,000 each year by preventing evictions and homelessness?

Or how one teacher completely changed the culture and consciousness at a low-income school in Philadelphia?

Or how we can take real steps toward great racial equality and economic opportunity?

From Boston to Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., this event will feature leaders who are building initiatives and creating solutions at a powerful level.

The Forum will highlight some of the most impactful work in education and in homelessness prevention, while also focusing on racial equality and economic opportunity.

A Wider Circle will host the 2018 Forum on Ending Poverty at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, a day recognized by the United Nations as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

You will have a chance to ask questions and engage interactively with the speakers and panel!

Featured speakers

* Linda Cliatt-Wayman, Author of Lead Fearlessly, Love Hard; former Principal, Strawberry Mansion High School
* Matt Pritchard, President and Executive Director, HomeStart*

* Panel discussion on Racial Equality and Economic Opportunity:
- George Jones, CEO, Bread for the City
- Leigh Tivol, Vice President for Strategy and Engagement, Prosperity Now

Be part of a special event that will elevate the movement to eradicate poverty and help you to see how you can be part of it.

For free registration, click here. For questions or more information, please email Kyle Le at kyle@awidercircle.org.

On Tuesday, October 16th, 2018, the American Association of Colleges and Universities hosted a webinar on Civic Prompts in the Major: Disciplinary Knowledge, Democratic Culture, and the Public Good.

A recording of the webinar is now available at this link. GW is an institutional member of the AAC&U, so you should have access to this resource. Please notify Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu) if you have any issues.

AAC&U is pleased to announce the latest in a series of webinars that highlight the work being done at colleges and universities to address challenges and identify best practices for enhancing the teaching and learning experience and demonstrating the value of liberal education for work, life, and global citizenship.

Most students have substantial exposure to civic knowledge, values, skills, and hands-on learning through general education, but the road to responsible democratic engagement too often disappears in a student’s specialized field of study. Three campus practitioners leading efforts to build strong civic learning pathways for departmental majors will describe what worked best to engage colleagues about disciplinary-driven questions of social responsibility. They will also share how they are creating more intentional designs focused on the public good in courses scaffolded across requirements for their majors.

Designed primarily for faculty, departmental chairs, and academic administrators, this webinar is part of AAC&U’s larger project on incorporating civic learning in the major—Civic Prompts.

Participants will gather:

• A variety of practical approaches for engaging departmental colleagues in how to make civic learning and social responsibility more visible and integrated across courses in the major
• Strategies for identifying the most salient public purposes in their fields and civic issues most urgent to explore
• Discipline-specific approaches to civic inquiry that yield language, modes of analysis, and pedagogies appropriate to their areas of specialization
• Ways to tap both internal institutional priorities and external bodies that can serve as catalysts for reassessments, resources, and actions.

On October 22nd, 2018, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. the Fairfax County, Virginia chapter of Citizens' Climate Education is cosponsoring a screening of “Tidewater” with the DC-based Center for Climate and Security.

This event features a screening of the award-winning 40-minute film "Tidewater," followed by a panel discussion.

The film tells the story of challenges faced by 13 military bases and 17 municipalities in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, where water is rising and land is sinking. After the film, a panel of retired senior military experts from the Center for Climate and Security will outline challenges our military must meet to protect our nation in a changing climate, with an opportunity for audience questions. Citizens' Climate Education volunteers will discuss how concerned citizens can encourage Congress to take action to mitigate climate change in order to protect our national security and economy.

The panel includes:

Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw, USMC (Ret)
Rear Admiral Leendert “Len” Hering Sr., USN (Ret)
Brigadier General Gerald Galloway, USA (Ret)

Moderator:
John Conger, Director, Center for Climate and Security

Further information and registration is at this link: www.tidewater-mclean.eventbrite.com