Articles, new toolkits or other resources related to CES.
APHA Press and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) are hosting a webinar book symposium on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, from 12 PM to 1:30 PM ET to promote the 2nd edition of "Race and Research: Perspectives on Minority Participation in Health Studies."
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The Participatory Budgeting Project recently highlighted a valuable tool for assessing and improving community engagement practices. The "Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership," developed in 2019 by Rosa González of Facilitating Power in partnership with Movement Strategy Center, offers a framework for organizations to evaluate and enhance their community participation efforts.
The spectrum provides insights on moving from marginalization to community ownership in decision-making processes.
The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership is designed to:
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The Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania has released a white paper titled "Restoring the Public Purpose of America's Urban Universities." This publication, supported by the Teagle Foundation, examines how urban colleges and universities can work with their local communities to address urban challenges. Featuring case studies and key findings, the paper includes examples from eight institutions and discusses strategies for meaningful community engagement.
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Campus Compact has received funding from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for a new project called "Scaling Discourse in Higher Education." This two-year initiative aims to help colleges and universities access effective tools and practices for bridge-building, dialogue, and discourse to enhance students' abilities to engage across differences and participate in democracy.
GW faculty, staff, and administrators are invited to contribute their insights through a brief survey by July 3, 2024. Participants will be entered into a drawing for half-price registration to Compact25, Campus Compact's 2025 national conference. Use this link to access the survey
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A new publication in the American Journal of Public Health from the RADx-UP project features co-authorship from CCPH Executive Director, Al Richmond.
This article highlights the common rule and Institutional Review Board origins, community-engaged research principles and data gathering, and interface adaptations.
The last Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship of the year was an informative one!
Zoom Recording of this event available here and on the Nashman Center's YouTube channel.
This Conversation was in partnership with GW Votes, a nonpartisan coalition hosted in the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service that promotes voter registration, education, and participation on GW’s campus and beyond. You are most welcome to join their effort - link here for the interest form.
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Campus Compact and The Allstate Foundation have partnered together to form The Allstate Foundation Youth Action Board. This is an excellent opportunity for people ages 18-22 to further their leadership aspirations through participating in youth led service opportunities and national youth engagement efforts. Applications are due May 31, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
Achieving Transformational Change in Promotion and Tenure Policies for Community-Engaged Scholarship, featuring Dr. Andy Furco, Dr. Jennifer Yee, and Dr. David Donahue. Sponsored by LEAD California, Collaboratory, and NC Campus Engagement.
Webinar recording available at the LEAD California Channel, along with previous webinars from their series on Promotion and Tenure.
Take a look at the most recent issue of Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, the premier journal of the Society of Experiential Education (SEE). Read articles on the connection between experimental learning and careers, peer tutoring in the experimental learning process, and other topics related to experimental learning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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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