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Published on Leave a comment on Community Engagement in STEM Featured in Recent Podcast

We encourage you to listen to this recent "Higher Ed Rewired" podcast episode, with a great example of community engagement in STEM.

CSU East Bay students build off-grid solar power and lighting systems designed to alleviate energy poverty—a lack of access to modern energy services. These projects are completed alongside K-12 students, as peer-led service-learning projects. This design creates opportunities for college students to use their learning to do problem solving and excites K-12 students in STEM fields.

Link to the podcast episode here. 

 

 

Published on Leave a comment on Science Education and Civic Engagement: New Journal – Call for Papers

The online peer-reviewed journal, Science Education and Civic Engagement is seeking papers for the winter issue. They seek papers that utilize civic issues to engage students in relation to math and science. It aims to educate students so they become more active participants in their communities.  

More information on the journal itself can be found here.  

Submission guidelines can be found here.  

Published on Leave a comment on Efforts to Increase 18-19 Year Old’s Voter Turnout Has Varied Effects Among States

The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) launched a program called ‘Growing Voters’ which aims to not only engage 18-19-year-old voters around election time, but give them a comprehensive election education, starting at an early age. It found that “... we’re missing an opportunity to instill civic habits early in life and to tackle disparities in access before they become harder to address...” CIRCLE hoped this effort would reduce the voting gap between this block and the rest of the ‘youth’ (18-29) voters.  

CIRCLE found that facilitative voting and early registration policies can be beneficial in increasing the youth vote, a specific example being online voter registration. Another possibility is to allow youth to be involved in and inform the election process, such as through serving as election judges or poll workers. A robust and required civics education can greatly increase voter turnout among youths.  

Colorado and Nevada are two states that have done a particularly good job at implementing many of these measures while having competitive elections, and as such have among the highest youth voter turnouts.   

To read the full article published by CIRCLE, click here 

Published on Leave a comment on New Book on Creating Community-Engaged Course

Authors Marshall Welch and Star Paxton-Moore recently published a new book, The Craft of Community Engaged Teaching and Learning. This book provides a blueprint for developing community-engaged courses and serves as a toolkit for individual readers or learning communities. It provides many interactive activities and is written in a conversational tone to assist faculty throughout the entire process – from development and implementation, to assessment and reflection.  

Check out this incredibly helpful addition to the community engagement field. Purchase here.  

Published on Leave a comment on 2020 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting – Presentation Opportunities!

The 2020 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting brings together different members of the higher education field with the goal of ensuring all students graduate from their universities and colleges with the abilities to be informed and engaged citizens. The conference discusses ways to increase civic capacities: civic ethos, civic literacy and skill building, civic inquiry, civic action, and civic agency.  

CLDE 2020 has opened their call for program proposals. It is asked that presentations focus on a question from the CLDE Theory of Change. Proposals will be accepted until January 31, 2020.  

The CLDE 2020 will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota from June 3-6, 2020. Find out more information here. 

Published on Leave a comment on Online Community Engagement Learning Opportunity for Faculty and Students

Campus Compact Indiana created ‘Best Practices in Assessing Community Engagement’ (BPACE) as a tool for educators and students that has brought together many different ideas and approaches to community engagement.  

As a part of the online course ‘Civic Learning During College,’ participants will develop and implement an assessment plan, focused on how to incorporate a civic dimension to student learning. The course will help students understand how different civic outcomes apply to their work, what assessments work best and how to implement them.  

This course is 100% online and involves no in person meetings or travelling. The deadline to enroll: November 29, 2019. For more information, click here.  

Published on Leave a comment on Call for Presentation Proposals: Diversity and Equity in Higher Education

The Global Citizen Forum: Struggles, Strategies, and Solutions for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education, hosted by Drake University and University of KwaZulu-Natal, are calling for presentation proposals.  

The conference brings educators, students, and scholars from many fields to discuss ways to create a more diverse higher education field. The conference will focus on:  

  • Exploring historical influences of today’s present  
  • The role of activism in transformation  
  • Teaching strategies and the role of research methods to effect impactful change  
  • Addressing structures and power relations within institutions  

The conference will be held at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on March 4-7, 2020. Presenter submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis with final decisions being made by January 15, 2020.  

If you would like to learn more about the conference or check out the electronic submission form, click the links. 

Published on Leave a comment on Call for Papers: Centering Social Justice in the Scholarship of Community Engagement

For their Winter 2021 issue, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is publishing a joint issue with the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID).  

In the past, there have been critiques on some aspects of service-learning, as some scholars see challenges in the implementation of it, in a way that also takes action of the larger systemic structures that inhibit social justice.  

This issue will focus on how to develop community engaged scholarship that puts social justice at the center. The journal is looking for papers that explore these challenges, discuss lesser understood portions of service-learning from a new perspective, explain research methods that accurately capture social justice efforts, or bring an interdisciplinary approach to solving this issue. The papers must include a self-reflective component. 

The deadline to submit a proposal for the special issue is January 15, 2020. Find out more about the submission guidelines here  

Published on Leave a comment on Community Engagement and the Arts FLC Prepares for End of the Year

The Community Engagement and the Arts Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is nearing the end of its calendar year of work, after having met consistently for the year.  

The many members of the FLC, led by Leslie Jacobson, Professor Emerita of Theatre, have centered much of their discussion on how to facilitate greater community engaged scholarship in the arts at GW. More recently, they have focused on learning about better ways to ‘tell our story’ through assessment methods that accurately capture the depth of the work done through community engaged arts. They are currently in the process of determining a way to share their work with the GW community.  

If you are interested in getting involved with a FLC that will be convening for the coming year, check out more information here 

Published on Leave a comment on Waging Peace in Vietnam Curriculum Options

According to the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University, "[here] are suggested classes on GI and veteran resistance to the Vietnam War that can be incorporated into courses on social movements, political change and other topics. Four classes are listed: instructors can pick or choose as they wish from among the suggested classes and listed resources."

  • Class 1: An overview of GI resistance to the Vietnam War
  • Class 2: The veteran’s story; invite a member of Veterans For Peace or other veterans groups to come to class and talk about the experience of serving in the military.
  • Class 3: The Vietnam Veterans’ movement
  • Class 4: Class, race and military war resistance

For more information about each course, please click here.

For a PDF version of the above referenced information, please click here.

Published on Leave a comment on New Research Publication, “Emerging Perspectives on Community Schools and the Engaged University”

"Emerging Perspectives on Community Schools and the Engaged University is an essential research publication that explores the importance of civic engagement in various school settings, but especially in higher education settings. Featuring a wide range of topics such as service learning, charter schools, and democracy, this book is ideal for community organizers, superintendents, directors, provosts, chancellors, education practitioners, academicians, administrators, researchers, and education policymakers."                                                                                                                         To view the text's purchasing options, click here.

Responsible for the text, Robert F. Kronick, a Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee. However, other contributors of the text include Ronald Bailey, Blake Berryhill, William Conwill, Kelly Ellenburg, Audrey Falk, Sarah Freeland, Kristina Gordon, Jim Grim, Anna Hamilton, Ira Harkavy, Rita Hodges, Darlene Kamine, Gavin Luter, Monica Medina, Holly Morgan, Khaula Murtadha, Jane Quinn, Robert Stewart, Henry Taylor, Quang Tran, Sylvia Turner, Mary Walsh, Joann Weeks, Jamie Willer, and Elizabeth Wilson.                                       To read more about each contributor, click here.

 

 

Published on Leave a comment on Oct. 31st Women’s Health Fellowship Deadline

The Clara Schiffer Project on Women’s Health is currently accepting applications for a 2020 fellowship. It seeks to provide financial support to graduate students conducting research to improve women’s health and create broader discussion around women’s health issues.

The maximum award is a one-time $5,000 award. To be eligible for this award, students must be currently enrolled in a SPH master’s program or relevant doctoral program.

The application deadline is October 31st, 2019. Find more information on the fellowship and application process here: https://publichealth.gwu.edu/projects/jiwh#schifferfellows

Published on Leave a comment on Upcoming Event: Civics & the Future of Democracy

On November 6th from 8-11:45am at the Newseum, the Atlantic and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University are hosting an upcoming event to discuss the role and implementation of civic education in our democracy.

Two of the main topics at the event will be ‘Is civics education a constitutional right’ and ‘can we fix democracy in the classroom?’ Speakers at the event include the presidents of Johns Hopkins University, Howard University, and Davidson College, as well as Ahmed Sesay, a recent high school graduate who is taking these ideas to court.

This event is open to both students and faculty. Click here for more information on the event and to find out how to register.

Published on Leave a comment on Resource Library, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

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