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Published on Leave a comment on Connect with Council on Undergraduate Research for free through April

The Council on Undergraduate Research will be waiving their membership fee and allowing free access to all of their services until April 30th.  Setup your account here!  

CUR, a membership organization that works to increase the undergraduate research capacity for faculty and students at campuses across the country, are aiming to provide greater assistance to both students and faculty during this difficult time. The organization provides an online community for support and collaboration. The membership also grants access to many journals and online resources.  

This access comes at a great time in the semester, as final papers and projects are right around the corner. For students, the CUR membership could provide a plethora of resources to complete these assignments. It could even assist in finding a journal to submit a paper to for publishing.   

Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity!  

Published on Leave a comment on Webinar on the Arts and Social/Civic Innovation

Got extra free time on your hands and interested in learning more about the relationship of place-based art and civic-engagement?  

The Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that runs national service programs such as AmeriCorps, produces a regular webinar series from the Office of Research and Evaluation.  

One recent webinar featured four panelists from the National Endowment for the Arts who shared how their research sought to measure and understand the interactions between place-based art, civic-engagement, social cohesion, and other community-level outcomes.  

Check out the webinar here. Be sure to keep up with future webinars in the series by checking out this link. 

If you are interested in finding others who also focus on community-engagement and the arts, find out how to get involved in the Faculty Learning Community on the topic.  

Published on Leave a comment on Community-Engaged Learning in Engineering Conference: Postponed

This conference will bring together faculty, professionals, researchers, students, community members, and others interested in engineering-based community-engagement and service-learning together to discuss the state of the art, best practices, challenges, and opportunities to enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

The conference organizers are the same group behind EPICS, a highly regarded program that has brought national attention to community-engaged learning as a proven pedagogy in engineering and the STEM disciplines.

The Conference was scheduled for July 29-31, 2020 hosted by Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. We will keep you posted about new dates.

More information can be found: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/university/events/Events%20Information

Published on Leave a comment on New Article: Universities Must Help Shape Post-COVID World

Ira Harkavy, a leader in community engaged scholarship shares this article he co-authored, calling on academics and community partners to "work together to develop democratic civic universities dedicated to producing knowledge and educating ethical, empathetic students for just and sustainable democratic societies." In this piece, they argue that, "doing this work is essential if we are to create a better post-COVID-19 world."

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200413152542750

Published on Leave a comment on CCMA Discussion on Food Security Initiatives During COVID
Join Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic and your colleagues in this Zoom call for a discussion of supporting food security initiatives during social distancing.
Thursday, April 30 at 11:00 am, register here. 

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Published on Leave a comment on Community Campus Partnerships For Health Webinar: Essential Employees

Community Campus Partnerships For Health is co-hosting a webinar series: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID-19. The next scheduled webinar is:

Behind the Scenes and In the Shadows: Essential Employees in COVID-19
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 1pm EST
Register Here.

Speakers:

  • Madeline Sterling, MD, Internal Medicine Physician at Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Antonio Tovar, PhD, Interim Executive Director of Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.
  • Faith Wiggins, MS Director - 1199SEIU Home Care Industry Education Fund

http://www.ccphealth.org/covid-19-equity/?mc_cid=2573035412&mc_eid=5b0828c4a4

 

Published on Leave a comment on What Better Time to Engage Students in Electoral Processes?

In a recent Inside Higher Ed article by Michael Roth (President of Wesleyen University) offers suggestions and resources for encouraging student engagement in the coming elections. This is a good piece, full of links to data and actionable involvement by faculty. Share this one with your colleagues, it's important.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/03/30/virtuous-contagion-needed-stimulate-participation-2020-elections-opinion

CIRCLE, a terrific research think tank around all things related to the youth vote has also shared this piece on reaching young voters while they are "stuck at home."

If you are interested in what is happening here at GW, allow me to introduce you to GWVotes: https://serve.gwu.edu/gw-votes. As the Roth article makes clear, faculty have a role to play - so get involved, get your students involved. It's time.

 

Published on Leave a comment on Introduction to High-Impact Practices: Webinar by George Kuh
If you are not familiar with the research evidence behind "high-impact practices" in higher education (service-learning is among them), we recommend this webinar. Dr. George Kuh is the researcher behind the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and will describe how he used this huge data-set to determine the campus experiences that lead to student success.
Introduction to High-Impact Practices
Apr 21, 2020 01:00 PM in Eastern Time
Register Here:

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Published on Leave a comment on Faculty Guide to GWServes

GWServes is our online platform for reporting campus-community partnerships and community engagement interests. It is proving to be a useful tool that fosters networking and collaboration among faculty, students, and community partners. These connections help us engage in mutually beneficial partnerships to influence more positive change in our city.

To encourage faculty to connect via this platform, we are providing an introductory, Faculty Guide to GWServes.

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Published on Leave a comment on GW Community Engagement Courses: Adapting and Responding

Many thanks to the committed and creative instructors and students in Community Engaged Scholarship who have found ways to continue to contribute to community wellbeing. Many inspiring examples have emerged over the last few weeks.

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Published on Leave a comment on Support for Health Care Providers During COVID-19

At our last Nashman Faculty Virtual Happy hour, several folks expressed interest in how we can support health care providers. Many thanks to Nashman Affiliate Faculty, Sandy Hoar, for following up with several resources.

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Published on Leave a comment on D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center’s Nonprofit & Small Business Legal Assistance Programs
Thank you to Fran Buntman, Dept of Sociology for sharing this post. Please share with your community partners and consider how your work can support nonprofits and small businesses as we move forward.
This is a friendly reminder that the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center's Nonprofit & Small Business Legal Assistance Programs are open and available to speak with D.C. community nonprofits and small businesses that have questions about the legal consequences of the COVID-19 public health crisis - and other legal matters.

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Published on Leave a comment on Spring 2020 Volume of International Undergraduate Journal for SL, Leadership, and Social Justice is Live

The Spring 2020 volume of the International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership, and Social Justice is live at https://opus.govst.edu/iujsl/ 

This journal is a good opportunity for our undergraduate students. We encourage you to review this volume, and consider course assignments that would create opportunities for your students to submit their work. 

Published on Leave a comment on Where/How to log indirect service impact hours completed anywhere during COVID

Students in Community Engaged Scholarship Courses who are doing indirect service during covid that is not part of an organization should log their hours at this event (and tag their courses so that the impact is seen by faculty)

Step 1. Go to the GWServes Community Response to Covid website and click the add impact button: https://gwserves.givepulse.com/event/174399-GW-Community-Response-to-COVID-19

Step 2. Put in the dates/times you served and choose GWServes Support as your verifier

Step 3. Please write a reflection describing what you did then Click the box for your class and click submit

Thank you to all of our students and faculty who are serving indirectly right now. If you need more indirect service opportunities click here to use givepulse/GWServes to find them: https://blogs.gwu.edu/nashmanfacultyupdate/2020/04/01/opportunities-for-virtual-service-across-the-country/

 

Published on Leave a comment on Search GWServes for Local/Distance/Virtual Service Opportunities
Remote Service
Log on to gwserves.givepulse.com for virtual service opportunities click the "get involved" tab

 

Students and faculty members can search hundreds of opportunities to serve virtually and log their hours on GWServes.givepulse.com 

Many students are asking "how can I help from where I am" and some student organizations and students in community engaged scholarship courses have direct service partnerships with organizations that are closed for the foreseeable future. The GWServes platform offers ways to still serve and meet needs virtually while tracking hours on their platform as you normally would.

Step 1. Log on to GWServes.givepulse.com and click "get involved"

Remote Service
Log on to gwserves.givepulse.com for virtual service opportunities

Step 2. Set your search parameters so you see virtual opportunities nationwide by clicking on gwserves and then un-clicking the box and clicking apply so you can see all opportunities.

On the gwserves tab un-click the box and click "apply" to see all opportunities

Step 3. Clear your location search parameters by clicking on your zip code, clear, then apply to get the maximum amount of results.

Click clear to remove your zip code and then click apply

Step 4. Click the virtual/remote button so you only see virtual service opportunities.  Click groups or events to virtually serve at an event or with a group

Click virtual/remote so you only see those opportunities. You can click groups or events to virtually serve at an event or with a group

Step 5. Add your impact hours as you normally would to share with your Community Engaged Course, School or student organization.

Have a story about your virtual service? Share it with us!

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