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The latest issue of Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) is out!
JHEOE is a peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Georgia, that publishes materials on outreach and engagement between institutions and communities. There most recent publication features many articles of interest, including research articles and reflective essays.
Check out the new volume here
PBS News Hour released a story highlighting one of our amazing community partners. Here’s the link to the organization on GWServes Givepulse if you’d like to learn how to serve there https://gwserves.givepulse.com/group/209492-Free-Minds-Book-Club-and-Writing-Workshop
Free Minds Book Club is an organization in DC that hosts book clubs and writing workshops for incarcerated people in prisons around DC. The organization was founded nearly two decades ago by Kelli Taylor and Tara Libert. Since its creation, the program has been shown to have great effects on members. Members of the book clubs have much lower rates of recidivism than other people who have been incarcerated.
Three of our community-engaged courses have students serving with Free Minds this semester, and there will be more courses that work with them in the spring. Be sure to check out the video made by PBS here.
Civic Life Project is calling for submissions for the Democracy 2020 Youth Film Challenge. Enter and Win up to $5,000!
“You or a group of you can share your voice on an issue you care deeply about in the 2020 election. Your film should have the power to convince young people like yourself of the importance of the issue, the reason to get involved and to engage your audience to go to the polls and vote.”
For more information, click here.
Here is a list of free courses available to anyone who wants to be better prepared in an emergency or to anyone who wants to help their community be prepared for an emergency.
Click here for more information about the following courses:
You will receive a certificate upon completion.
Also, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is offering a 5 course program.
The October 3rd Conversation focused on the Intersection of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SOTL) and service learning. The discussion was led by Maria de la Fuente, (Spanish and Linguistics).
SOTL research is the systematic inquiry about student learning, grounded in theory and research, and disseminated through scholarly publications or presentations. Community-engaged learning pedagogies like service learning are excellent spaces for SOTL research.
...continue reading "Conversations Series: The Intersection of SOTL and Service Learning"
The 6th Global Service-Learning Summit is November 3rd-5th at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. The topic: ‘One World: Inclusion and Transformation in Service-Learning'.
The schedule for the summit has been announced and the plenary will be on ‘Asset-based Local Engagement and Inclusive Community-Building'. This panel will feature a panel of women who have been working to advance the inclusivity in Upstate South Carolina. To read the original post on the summit click here
For more information on the summit and how to register click here
For more information on the panel click here
The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting invites you to join this meeting in Philadelphia November 2nd-November 6th, 2019. APHA's Annual Meeting and Expo is the largest and most influential annual gathering of public health professionals. Nearly 13,000 attendees attend each year to present, learn and find inspiration. For more information on the event or to register click here.
Executive Director, Al Richmond will be presenting an Oral Presentation, Patient Engagement: Enhancing Culturally Appropriate Research (ECAR) on November 4th, 2019 from 10:30am – 12pm Eastern Time. For more information on his presentation click here.
Keep a lookout for more information about the Community Awards Reception and a CCPH Member Meet-Up during the conference coming soon!
The 6th Global Service-Learning Summit will focus on the topic ‘One World: Inclusion and Transformation in Global Service-Learning’. Those with an interest in such topics as migration and inclusion, ethical engagement in the field of global health, or how different organizations approach community-based learning, are invited to attend the summit.
The conference will take place on November 3rd-5th, 2019. It will be held at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The fee is now $425, however there are scholarships available.
If you are interested in learning more, please do so here.
The September 5th, Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship focused on recent research findings, student surveys, and student service data.
The presentation slides from this event are available here.
The Periscope video is available here.
Wendy Wagner, the Nashman Center's director of community engaged scholarship, presented these findings and facilitated a conversation about uses of the data and new lines of inquiry for the coming year.
We are happy to present/discuss specific findings with your department faculty as well. Contact wagnerw@gwu.edu to schedule a department presentation.
While many topics arose, important themes were: cost of transportation to service sites, future data gathering and reporting, and further mining of the data from the MSL research study.
...continue reading "Conversations Series: The Big Data Share"
Nashman Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Maranda Ward shared this great new opportunity with us:
GW Health Sciences is pleased to announce a professional development series on health equity. The Department of Clinical Research and Leadership (CRL) is sponsoring the series to facilitate a shared understanding of health equity and its use as a lens for teaching, practicing, and service.
The series runs from September to January, 2020 and is open to the GW community and the public. CMEs are available. The five-month-long series will take place on the second Thursday of each month on the Foggy Bottom campus.
To register for the first event on September 12 or to learn more about the series, please visit: https://go.gwu.edu/healthequity
The first event on Sept. 12 from 10 to 11 am features Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, discussing "Framing Health Equity." Ward, assistant professor in CRL, developed the series. "This health equity learning series will better equip us to fulfill our social mission in teaching, research, and service," Ward said. "It is chocked full of local experts and national leaders who rely on evidence and innovation to put the justice back in health."
Among the topics covered in the series are:
The Teaching for Democracy Alliance website has a wealth of resources related to talking to students about voting and being an informed citizen.
George Washington University appeared on the Washington Monthly's List of America's Best Colleges for Student Voting. The list includes 80 institutions. Notably, none of GW's market basket schools appear on this list.
Congrats to GW and particularly to the GW Votes program for this success.
Please do forward your students to TurboVote, an online platform available to the GW community which provides timely notifications on upcoming elections wherever users are registered to vote, as well as non-partisan information about local, state, and federal candidates.
The Stanford University Libraries, in partnership with Campus Compact and other supporters has curated an online Service-Learning History Project archive, curated by Tim Stanton, Seth Pollack and Josh Schneider. The archives contains downloadable interviews, films, and documents, telling the story of the emergence and institutionalization of service-learning from over the last fifty years.
Imagining America recently received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their Leading and Learning Initiative. The goal of the project is to shift institutional culture in higher education toward greater support of public scholarship in the humanities, the arts, and design.
This three-year initiative will have two primary outcomes:
