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Published on Leave a comment on New NCOC Resource on Civic Health: Pandemic to Prosperity

The National Conference on Citizenship (NCOC), home of the Civic Health Index, has just released a new resource, Pandemic to Prosperity.  They share the following:

History has shown that large-scale crises accelerate pre-existing trends and permanently change societies and civic life. While most of the nation’s attention is currently focused on the response to Covid-19, we must ensure that recovery efforts in the months and years ahead lead to a more just and equitable society. Pandemic to Prosperity offers a comprehensive overview of the Covid-related impacts on our lives and livelihoods, governments, civic institutions, and overall well being.

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Published on Leave a comment on Risk Management: Campus Compact Webinar and Resources

Message from Campus Compact:

Given the great level of interest we had in our risk management webinar, we have decided to create a knowledge hub of resources. We are currently doing a call for resources related to risk management and community engagement. If your institution has guidelines that you would like to share with us, waiver forms, or other sorts of resources please submit them to Campus Compact via the form link below. Our hope is that this space will be a source of collective knowledge building and sharing. We look forward to reviewing and sharing the submissions.

https://forms.gle/fffXeer9W5xpGqEv5

A recording of the webinar is available on our website and YouTube channel.

Published on Leave a comment on Educating for Democratic Justice: New Resource from the AAC&U

The Association of American Colleges and Universities has recently launched a new webpage listing resource links.  Educating for Democratic Justice: Civic Teaching Online, Anti-Racism Resources, and Assessment.

The resource is created, "for members of higher education committed to engaged, participatory, collective civic learning through differences worried that moving all learning online would diminish the transformative learning possible as well as offering resources on anti-racism, a dimension of civic learning and democratic engagement, and key assessments for civic and diversity learning."

This page offers some beginning steps in three areas:  online civic engagement strategies in the time of COVID-19; anti-racism resources; and ways to assess student civic learning.

Published on Leave a comment on What We’re Talking About: #BlackinIvory
The Nashman Center staff has had useful conversations recently, stirred by the following share by Will Brummet, our Program Manager for Co-Curricular Programs.
"For those who are on Twitter or Instagram, the #BlackinIvory dominated the weekend as over 9,000 black faculty, staff, students, and administrators detailed their experiences in predominantly white university spaces and institutional structures. As a white staff member (#spoileralert), reading the thread of stories was challenging, enlightening, and humbly inspiring to do and be better, both individually and collectively as an institution, no matter how aware or unaware I was prior to reading some of the accounts.
This article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. today is a conversation with the creators of the hashtag (Joy Melody Woods and Sharde  M. Davis), and I found it enlightening enough that I wanted to pass along to others. It's a good intro to the reason for the hashtag if you are not familiar, and if you did read stories this weekend, it's a good follow-up to see where the creators want to go from here with it. I just wanted to pass along in case other folks were also interested."

Published on Leave a comment on Resources on Anti-Racism

 

Many thanks to Dr. Maranda Ward for compiling and sharing this resource list:

The GW SGA president, Howard Brookins, and SGA vice president, Brandon Hill (two Black undergraduates) compiled an incredibly comprehensive Anti-racism Resource Guide. It includes antiracism books, articles, documentaries, toolkits, websites, and social media handles.
Without duplicating the resource guide above, here are some additional resources to consider sharing with your networks:

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Published on Leave a comment on Campus Compact Podcast Discusses Student Voting

If you don't have the Campus Compact podcast on your subscription list, now is a good time to add it: https://compact.org/podcast/

This month features a series of "minisodes" produced by students around topics related to the 2020 election.

Published on Leave a comment on Campus Compact Annual Conference Online and Free

The 2020 Campus Compact Annual Conference reached over 5,000 viewers during the live stream sessions May 11-13th.

If you missed it, all conference sessions are now live on their YouTube channel.   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpEMvWFeizHOAUs66M2oBpr50N1CVxZ8

Sessions explore topics such as online community-engaged learning, civic digital literacy, place-based justice, civic learning ecosystems, student voting participation, and more.

Published on Leave a comment on New Collaborative Network for Community-Based Global Learning

Building on a decade of collaboration, the network of educational institutions and community organizations formerly known as The Globalsl Network has become The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative @CBGLCollab on Twitter or a group on Facebook.

The Collaborative is a network of educational institutions and community organizations that advances ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

The Collaborative does this through several specific mechanisms:

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Published on Leave a comment on Panel Discussion: How to Make Democracy Work during the Pandemic

The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies frequently hosts panel discussions locally at the Arena Stage theatre. During COVID-19, these are being held via Zoom. For information on upcoming events and to view video recordings on former discussions, see https://www.arenastage.org/civildialogues

Monday, May 25, from 4:00pm EST -5:30pm EST, the panel will discuss Politics in the COVID-19 Age: How to Make Democracy Work during the Pandemic. 

The panel will include: 
  • Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University
  • William Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University
  • Norman J Ornstein, Vice President of the Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation
Join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4915892435568/WN_y06scStPRTmK5dgdprvKQA

Published on Leave a comment on National Center on Citizenship: New Network to Support Civic Engagement, Learning during COVID19

NCoC launched a new initiative in March called the “Learn, Ask, and Share” network in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their focus is to bring local leaders valuable tools, information, and partnership to help everyone adapt and achieve full participation in their own communities. 

They've covered great topics like vote by mail, managing anxiety, and combating disinformation. NCoC also launched a series on “Talking to Your People Online.” 

They are partnering with the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition team who rapidly shifted their entire in-person voter engagement strategy to online efforts learn more about their work here. 

Published on Leave a comment on Webinar Series, Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID19

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina have partnered to launch this webinar series, Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID19.

Sessions are on Wednesdays at 1pm EST.

View upcoming and past sessions here: http://www.ccphealth.org/covid-19-equity/?mc_cid=9c6ac5dd0d&mc_eid=db5e1adac3

Published on Leave a comment on New Podcast on Service-Research
Mercer University's Research that Reaches Out office has launched a new podcast that tells the stories of how faculty and staff are working with students to deepen learning and address real-world problems by stacking two high-impact practices, service and undergraduate research. These early episodes include concrete steps for how faculty and staff have modified classroom service partnerships and outreach in the face of Covid-19 distancing.
Upcoming episode summaries:

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Published on Leave a comment on Latest Issue Released, Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

Read the latest issue of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North CarolinaCampus Compact’s peer-reviewed, online journal, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  The journal is available online here.

All volumes (2009-2019) are archived and are available for download. Visit the Partnerships Archive.

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Published on Leave a comment on Engaging Your Community Online About Voting
The National Conference on Citizenship will host an online "Learning Circle" this Wednesday about engaging your communities online about voting. This is particularly timely, as the pandemic drives rapid change in the way elections are being administered.
Join us Wednesday at 2pm ET with Kathryn Quintin from the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition and voting communications expert Brad Bauman to discuss great strategies and tools to ramp up online efforts to educate your communities about how to build an inclusive culture ahead of the 2020 election - while protecting public health. This presentation will build on incredible work that Kathryn and Brad have been doing over the last 6 weeks to rapidly adapt voter engagement programs to meet the needs of this moment.
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