Join a webinar with esteemed panelists from around the nation who will discuss their experience in transforming promotion and tenure guidelines and policies at the departmental and institutional levels. Panelists include: David Donahue, University of San Francisco; Jennifer Yee, California State University Fullerton and Andy Furco, University of Minnesota. The panel took place on April 16, 2024.
Category: Good Reads
Articles, new toolkits or other resources related to CES.
Register Now: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement Reviewer Session
Join the Engagement Scholarship Consortium and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach in a virtual discussion on the journal’s peer review process, including best practices for conducting a review and strategies for integrating reviewer feedback as an author. The talk will take place on April 24, 2024, from 12:00-1:00 p.m.. Click here to learn more and register.
Good Reads: Alignment of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging with Community and Civic Engagement Functions in Higher Education
Take a look at this report from Castel Sweet that "offers an environmental scan of Campus Compact members and the broader higher education community around the alignment and structural integration of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging with community and civic engagement functions on campuses". This report was published by Campus Compact. Click here to read.
Register Now: Anti-Racist Community Engagement Workshop Series
Campus Compact is hosting a series with the editors and writers of Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices. In this series they will be discussing how university communities implement anti-racist practices. Click here to learn more and register.
Upcoming Sessions:
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April 18 - Doing the Work: Making Space for Undergraduate Students to Participate in Anti-Racist Community Engagement
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May 16 - Anti-Racist Community Engagement Principle 4 Workshop: Compassionate and Reflective Classrooms On and Off Campus
Winter 2024 Issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement
"For the Winter 2024 issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal, we are delighted to feature an article from Kerri Shelton from Columbus State University in Georgia, who reports on work done by a team of undergraduate researchers (chemistry and nursing majors) who worked to analyze 20th-century medical kits at the Columbus Museum.
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Register Now: Campus Compact Virtual Panel on Community Engaged Scholarship Revealed
Join Campus Compact in a virtual panel discussion with the authors published in the latest issue of the MJCSL. The discussion will cover the origins of the core commitments and building blocks of civic identity. This event will take place Thursday March 28, 2024 from 3:00-4:30. Click here to learn more.
Read Now: Latest Publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations
Click here to read the latest publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal. This issue is on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations.
Links to each article in the issue are below:
Register Now: NYC Storytelling Workshop
Join former head of SMPA and Emmy Award winning journalist Frank Sesno in a workshop where participants will learn how to bring their venture idea to life and use the power of storytelling to expand their reach. This event will take place Thursday March 7th, 2024 from 12:00-1:30. Please encourage students to attend as well. Click here to register.
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.
Register Now: IARSLCE Web Series
Join the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in a four-part web series to explore contemporary and cutting edge approaches to community-engaged research. Learn about youth participatory action research, data literacy and quantitative analysis of big data, trends and gaps in community-engaged dissertation research, and Carnegie Co-Labs. Sessions will include interactive conversations, as well as dynamic presentations by scholars in the field. Click here to learn more and register.
Tune In: Centering Indigenous Knowledge: Indigenous People and Place
Join Campus Compact throughout the month of March for this exciting webinar series from Montana Campus Compact. For 2024, The Centering Indigenous Knowledge webinar series will focus on the theme of Indigenous people and place and will explore people’s millennia-spanning relationships with and the significance, history, and power of place. Click here to learn more and register for one or all of the sessions.
Apply Now: Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship
Project Pericles is accepting applications for their Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship. Fellows will receive a $1,000 grant to use Periclean Civic Engagement Resources in the humanities for Spring- Fall 2024. These modules help educate students about voter suppression and bridge the gap between academic content and the real world. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Good Reads: GW Serves: Senior’s Statistical Study Supports Sidewalk Safety
Check out this article in GW Today about senior Sahas Srinivasan who did great volunteer work with the Capitol Hill Village Sidewalk Safety Team to help improve pedestrian safety. Click here to read more.
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.
