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Published on Leave a comment on Panel Discussion: Theatre as a Catalyst for Change, March 30th

March 30th, 2019, 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Marvin Center, 3rd Floor Amphitheatre

This is a do-not-miss GW event which will explore the potential of theatre as a powerful catalyst for social change. Theatre practitioners will share experiences from their own work in which they have witnessed or experienced the transformational power of theater. The following panelists will continue the conversation: Derek Goldman, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Leslie Jacobson, Jodi Kanter, and linguist Deborah Tannen. Mary Ellsberg, Director of the Global Women’s Institute will moderate the panel.

Link here for more information.

Following this event, plan to stay for a performance of 'Women's Works' Compiled and directed by Leslie Jacobson from 5-7pm. Link here for more information about this work, as well as other performance times scheduled.

Published on Leave a comment on Chavez-Huerta-Itliong Celebration and Call to Action: March 28, 29

You are cordially invited to attend GW’s fourth annual Chavez • Huerta • Itliong Celebration and Call to Action.

The event brings community members together to honor the work, values, and dedication of change agents committed to making the world a better place for all. It is a day where we are encouraged to reflect on our collective responsibility to stand for equity and justice and heed the calls of activists before us to continue the struggle for progress.

This year’s theme is Juntos - Magkasama - Together. It highlights the coalition building and collaboration that is necessary for social movements to create an impact.

Event highlights:

The Delano Manongs and the Legacy of the Filipino Farmworkers

Thursday, March 28th : Please register here, space is limited

5pm-7pm

The George Washington University Textile Museum (701 21st St NW)

Documentary screening and discussion with Marissa Aroy and Theodore Gonzalves

Part of the Norman Rockwell Four Freedoms Exhibit

Chavez • Huerta • Itliong Day of Commitment and Call to Action

Friday, March 29th: Registration not required, but for our help, please sign-up here

If you would like to volunteer, please sign up here (time slots and roles are on the sign up form)

Cloyd Heck Marvin Center (800 21st St NW) – 3rd Floor

9:30am – 4:30pm

Values Fair | Marvin 309

Workshops | Marvin 307 & 308

Peace Room | Marvin 311

Museum Room | Marvin  310

5pm – 7pm (Doors open at 4:30)

Closing Ceremony | Continental Ballroom

Panel Discussion: Coalition building in the farm worker movement

Refreshments will be served

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Published on Leave a comment on Chavez, Huerta, Itliong (CHI) day events are fast approaching!

Thursday and Friday, March 28th and 29th on the third floor of the Marvin Center is the fourth annual GW Chavez, Huerta, and Itliong Day, offering opportunities for faculty & students!

Chaves Huerta Itliong (CHI) day members are working diligently to raise awareness about Cesar Chaves, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and the farmworkers movement at GWU - delving into the principals and influence of each person while advocating for the social justice issues that impact our society. If you would like to get involved email cesarchavezgw@gmail.com.

Submit a photo of your work or a working concept to the exhibition in Marvin Center on March 28th - 29th. Your submission(s) will be displayed as a part of the annual celebration of CHI. For details, questions, and submissions, contact Katie Loos and Grace Fisher: katieloos@gwu.edu, gracefisher@gwu.edu.

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Published on Leave a comment on Conversations Series: Community Engaged Scholarship and Activist Movements

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The Black History Month Nashman Breakfast Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship was hosted this week by the Black Lives Matter Faculty Learning Community (FLC).

Some BLM FLC goals that faculty kept in mind during discussions were:

  • Going against socialization
  • Preparing students to live with tension
  • Cultural mindfulness, humility, and competence

If you missed the presentation, or want a recap, the PowerPoint from the presentation can be found here and video of the presentation can be found here.

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Dr. Maranda C. Ward is part of the school of Medicine and Health Sciences and she stated that their mission as a school is “excellence through diversity and inclusion” and “addressing the challenges of health equity.” Dr. Ward created a health equity course audit rubric which assessed health equity classes based on if they were implementing diverse cultural perspectives and found that many of the classes weren’t including diverse course work. Now as a department they are trying to figure out the best way to revise curriculum.

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Dr. Imani Cheers teaches digital storytelling and revised her syllabus to include Black Lives Matter themes and issues. Students were assigned projects about social justice advocacy, researched areas outside of Foggy Bottom, and created a website of their videos, which you can find here: https://monumedia2018.wixsite.com/home

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Dr. Susan LeLacheur and Dr. Howard Straker teach together in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In their classroom, they diversified case scenarios, used implicit bias tests and added material on African American historical trauma, and prenatal care. The session ended with faculty discussing ways to talk about race in their classes with conversations about Governor Northam and how to discuss the issue with students.

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Thank you to the BLM FLC for a great scholarship!

If you would like to join this or any other FLC, information is here.

Published on Leave a comment on February Conversation: Community Engaged Scholarship and Activist Movements – Making the Connection

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On Wednesday, February 27th, 2019, the Nashman Center will be hosting February’s Breakfast Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship!

This Conversation will be facilitated by members of the 2018 Nashman Faculty Learning Community on the #BlackLivesMatter movement. They will address the sensitivity and skills needed to facilitate reflective discussions that help students connect their personal experiences in the community with larger societal inequities and national movements that are working to address them.

9:30 am, Coffee and connection with colleagues
9:45-10:45 am, Conversation begins

Published on Leave a comment on Save the Date: Chavez Huerta Itliong Day, March 28-29, 2019

You and your students can be involved in this GW tradition celebrating the farmworker's movement and honoring these social change makers. You can learn more about the events for Chavez Huerta Itliong Day by subscribing to their newsletter and following them on twitter @chidayGW! Want to engage even more? Check out the learning and service opportunities with Operacion Impacto https://givepul.se/akkbm

The Nashman Center is proud to support Community Engaged Scholarship in Spanish courses including Spanish 3040 taught by Professor Perillian, a member of our Nashman Affiliated Faculty.

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Published on Leave a comment on John Saltmarsh on Community Engagement and Higher Education

A recap of our conversation with John Saltmarsh including links to resources, the video, presentation slides, and articles mentioned in the session.

There were so many great takeaways in yesterday’s conversation we cannot cover them all and encourage you to listen to the session.

The link between faculty diversity and support for community-engaged scholarship. Research by Saltmarsh and others suggests a link between explicit rewards for community-engaged scholarship and an institution’s ability to attract and retain faculty of color and women. Young faculty in particular, are interested in scholarly careers that link knowledge and learning with the public good. They are seeking institutions that will support them in those aims. Link here for a paper on this issue co-authored by Saltmarsh: “Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education” (2011).

The need for both policy and faculty education in changing institutional culture. Saltmarsh’s current research is examining an institution that recently experienced an intentional shift to support community-engaged scholarship, including a call for all departments to explicitly address support for this work in their bylaws and policies. More on that project is provided here: UNC faculty plan.

Clear policies are necessary but are not sufficient. As a university provost once told Saltmarsh, “policies don’t vote.” It is important that faculty involved in reviewing tenure cases understand how to evaluate community-engaged research for quality and impact. Saltmarsh noted, “Can we value a range of scholarly products? We have to rethink that the only thing that counts is a peer reviewed journal, which may not be of interest to a community partner. These journals are highly specialized, which means they are read by very few. We have to explicitly rethink ‘impact’.”

Resources referred to in the Saltmarsh presentation:

2013 Tulane White Paper -academic review and engagement

HERI Faculty Surveys

2010 Carnegie data

Cleveland State University- Confronting the Careless (Byron White)

Links to papers by Saltmarsh:

We hope you’ll be able to use these resources and we’ll see you in
February at the next conversation.

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Published on Leave a comment on Faculty Learning Community on Black Lives Matter Will Continue for 2019

The Nashman FLC: Bringing Black Lives Matter into the Community-Engaged Classroom will continue to meet monthly in 2019, and others are welcome to join them. Please contact the FLC chair Phyllis Ryder for more information (pryder@gwu.edu).

In Spring 2019, this FLC will meet the first Thursday of the month: Feb 7, Mar 7, Apr 4 & May 2,  from 3-5 pm in District House B115.

Click here for a recap on this FLC’s 2018 activities.

FLC Description:

Chair: Phyllis Ryder, University Writing Program

Do you find yourself drawing on your disciplinary expertise to think about contemporary social and political events, such as Black Lives Matter, with its social media activism, critiques of criminal justice, or intersectional organizing tactics?  Do you worry that bringing BLM into class will seem too political or forced?  In this Faculty Learning Community, faculty across the university will explore how to link our courses with DC-specific community contexts so that the pertinent questions arise from the ground up. We will identify relevant texts, explore hands-on class activities, and build strategies to incorporate current political events in our classes in a way that feels right to each of us as teachers and citizens.

The purpose of this FLC is to build community across disciplines and encourage innovative teaching approaches that reflect GW’s commitments to “engage deeply in real-world problems” and “infuse the ideas of citizenship and leadership into everything we do”.

The FLC will convene monthly throughout 2018 and will involve moderate reading in preparation for our meetings. Our goal is to develop inter-disciplinary approaches to connecting local, current events within community-engaged classrooms.

Published on Leave a comment on GW School of Nursing Hosts Event to Build Community Partnerships

February 1st, the School of Nursing hosted community partners and faculty for a day to share knowledge, understand each others aims, and discuss potential initiatives. In addition to networking and roundtable brainstorming, several existing initiatives were presented, including:

  • Dr. Erin Athey: The Barbershop Embedded Education Project, addressing mental wellbeing in Wards 7 and 8 in partnership with local barbershop owners
  • Dr. Sherrie Wallington: Addressing Health Disparities and Reaching for Health Equity through Community Engaged Research
  • Dr. Linda Briggs: Implementing the Nurse Practitioner Role in Chile
  • Dr. Karen Dawn and Dr. Sandra Davis: Photo Voice with Camp Dogwood
  • Carmen Session: The Pipeline and Pathway Program - Creating opportunities for high school and community college students to advance in the health sciences
  • Dr. Joyce Pulcini and Dr. Janet Phoenix: Developing a student/family centered school health collaborative
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Published on Leave a comment on To all of our Faculty and Students who served on MLK Day Thank YOU!

We had a great MLK Day at GW this year - a heartfelt thank you to everyone who took the time to serve on Monday!

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Published on Leave a comment on GW ArtReach and New Collaboration with DC Central Kitchen
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Click below for this great example of GW’s campus-community partnerships.

“Creatively merging our two organizations’ areas of expertise, Aselin Lands of GW ArtReach created art lessons to correspond with three popular DC Central Kitchen nutrition lessons: “MyPlate”, “Where does your food come from?” and “Eat the Rainbow.” For six weeks, 30 students alternated between interactive nutrition education lessons and creative art projects. Each of their nutrition education lessons involved a hands-on cooking demo, including our popular kale salad recipe and a taco representing all five food groups. One student, Dylan, liked the kale salad so much that he later made it with his family at home! However, he did report being just a little disappointed that his mom bought pre-chopped kale instead of a bunch, meaning he couldn’t use the knife skills he had learned in class with us.”

https://dccentralkitchen.org/2018/12/20/a-new-partnership-at-thearc/

Published on Leave a comment on Featured Speaker: John Saltmarsh on How Community-Engaged Scholarship is Transforming Higher Education
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Join the Nashman Center on Wednesday, January 30th, 9:00-10:45am,as we welcome Dr. John Saltmarsh to campus for a talk and facilitated discussion,

“How Community-Engaged Scholarship is Transforming Higher Education.”

Gelman Library, Room 101

9:00 am  Enjoy coffee and networking with other community-engaged colleagues

9:30-10:45 am  Dr Saltmarsh presentation and subsequent discussion

RSVP HERE

Dr. John Saltmarsh is one of the nation's leading scholars on community-engaged scholarship and on leveraging institution-wide change to support civic engagement in higher education. He will be sharing with us the latest research on the value of community-engaged scholarship, to benefit our communities and to improve the quality of our scholarship.

Saltmarsh spearheaded the movement linking scholarly work to community-engagement while at Campus Compact as the director of their national program on Integrating Service with Academic Study. He served for ten years as the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), a resource-rich center with a strong national reputation. Saltmarsh was also one of the architects of the Carnegie Foundation's elective "Engaged Campus" designation. He is currently the Swearer Center Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Residence and a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Dr. Saltmarsh has authored, co-authored and edited many of the best resources available on community-engaged scholarship and influencing culture change in higher education to promote public engagement. Recent publications (all available through the Nashman Center Library or links provided here) include:

This event is part of the Nashman Center’s Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship series, click here for the full schedule of events.

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Published on Leave a comment on Spring 2019 Nashman Faculty Events

We look forward to seeing you at our Spring, 2019 Events:

Featured Speaker Dr. John Saltmarsh on Community-Engaged Scholarship
January 30th, 9-10:45am

Community-Engaged Scholarship and Activist Movements: Making the Connection
February 27th, 9:30-10:45am

The History of Inequity in Washington, DC: What Community-Engaged Scholars Need to Know
March 27th, 9:30-10:45am

GW Research Days, judging for the Nashman Prize for Community-Based Participatory Research
April 9-10, noon-2pm

Spring 2019 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship
Friday, April 26th, Noon - 3:30 pm, Marvin Center, 3rd floor

Published on Leave a comment on Thank You for Making the Fall 2018 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship a Success!

The Symposium was a success and we want to thank the students, faculty and community partners who spent the afternoon learning from and engaging with each other! Everyone learned a great deal from the presenters, Dr. Jacobsen’s Theater Students gave the audience a new way to think about immigration with their presentation, the showcases from community engaged courses highlighted the service, research, learning and action that students undertook throughout the semester and the concluding panels examined community engaged scholarship in depth- all great examples of engagement with our community and our scholarship.

If you missed the symposium check out the great people who presented here: https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/symposium/

Two of our presenters-Dr. Imani Cheers’ class and Gillian Joseph 2018-2019 Knapp Fellowship Winner have websites to share with us in case you missed their sessions at the symposium or wanted to learn more here they are https://monumedia2018.wixsite.com/home & https://findourwomen.org/

Do you have scholarship to share? Mark your calendar for the spring symposium on April 26, 2019!

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Published on Leave a comment on Start the New Semester With a Discussion on Public Health 1/28/2019

DC Community Health Connect is a series of networking and educational events for community-based health care providers and community members. The purpose of these events is to create a forum to exchange ideas and resources, as well as to learn from experts from academia, government, and community-based organizations.

Food will be provided, and tickets are free but limited.

Date: Monday, January 28, 2019

Time: 5:30 - 8:00PM

Location: Busboys and Poets, 14th & V

2021 14th Street NW

Washington, DC 20009

Eventbrite Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dc-community-health-connect-sickle-cell-disease-tickets-53606298883

For any questions, please contact:

Kristina Williams at krwilliams@mfa.gwu.edu

Click Here to RSVP!

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