Workshops, service events, research presentations… hosted by GW departments or the Nashman Center.
The Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement presents the 4th Annual Diversity Summit: Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at GW!
Join us for workshops, lectures, panels, and poster presentations on a variety of diversity-related topics, including race and racism, bias, sexuality and gender, and religion, faith, spirituality, and beliefs, and more.
For more information and to register, click here.
The Rodham Institute is pleased to host its 9th DC Community Health Connect!
For this event, they are pleased to host a private screening of the film Resilience, a documentary on the critical link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and chronic illness in adulthood. The film also explores the movement determined to fight against the lasting impact of ACEs.
They invite you to join us for a one-time only screening, followed by a group discussion.
Food will be provided, and tickets are free but limited.
Date: Monday, October 29th, 2018
Time: 5:30PM - 8:00PM
Location: Busboys and Poets, 14th & V
2021 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
ArtReach is a partnership between GW and THEARC (http://www.thearcdc.org), an arts, education, and recreation campus in DC’s Ward 8. ArtReach is a great opportunity for GW faculty, students, and alumni to partner in our own DC community through arts. The ArtReach program is always open to new initiatives with GW faculty and students, but are particularly seeking student volunteer support at this time. We need your help.
Please forward to students:
Are you interested in visual arts or community engagement? ArtReach, a partner at THEARC, is a visual arts space that provides free programs, classes, gallery space, and collaborative projects to promote community engagement. We are looking for volunteers to serve in after school visual arts classes to provide support for the instructors and create a positive experience for each student. No extensive art experience is necessary. If interested, please complete the GWServes EngageDC interest form and indicate your interest in ArtReach. You can also contact mgibson32@gwu.edu.
The Global Women’s Institute will be hosting an open house event on Thursday, October 11th, from 3 to 5 p.m. at 2140 G St NW, Washington, D.C. Join the staff of the Global Women’s Institute for an opportunity to learn more about how their current research and outreach initiatives work to make a difference in the lives of women and girls. Light refreshments will be provided.
Feel free to email GWI at gwomen@gwu.edu with any questions.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Leadership will be taking place on Monday, January 21st, 2019 from 11:00am to 3:00pm! As part of the GW celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members are invited to participate in a day of service, leadership development, and interfaith dialogue. MLK Day of Service and Leadership is sponsored by the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement & Public Service, with support from the Multicultural Services Center and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement.
For groups that register soon, we will be able to ensure that your group is assigned to serve together at the same community site. Departments are welcome to serve together, and faculty are welcome to bring their families. REGISTER HERE
Last year, over 1,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members gathered for the opening program with keynote speakers and headed to service sites both on- and off-campus as well as leadership workshops.
The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service invites you to participate in Give-A-Gift!
Give-A-Gift is GW’s annual holiday gift-giving event in which members of the GW community provide clothing, household items, educational items, and toys for families in need. This year we are partnering with seven different community partners to provide approximately 500 individuals with holiday gifts.
Each individual you sponsor will receive one educational (child) or household gift (parent), one clothing/shoe gift, and one fun gift. All three gifts should be approximately $75.
After you complete this form we will send you an email with your individual and/or family assignment.
**Timeline**
Monday, November 5th 2018: Personalized assignments will start to be sent out to all sponsors. If you sign-up after November 5th you will receive your assignment email within 72 hours of completing the form.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018: Participants will drop-off gifts at the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom (800 21st Street NW, 3rd Floor) or Research Place on the Virginia Science and Technology Campus between 8am and 12pm.
Give-A-Gift is an opportunity to provide gifts to local DC families during the holiday season. Individuals or groups who register commit to raising $75 toward gifts for each person they sponsor. Parameters related to the gifts needed/wanted are provided. Last year, over 300 GW individuals and groups participated.
To register, fill out the Google Form here.
**PLEASE NOTE: If you are unable to drop off gifts during this window, you will need to coordinate with our team to do an early drop-off at the Nashman Center (837 22nd Street NW).
Questions? Email us at giveagift@gwu.edu or call 202-994-9913.
GW Teaching Day was last Thursday, Sept 27th and included a set of poster presentations in a “community-engaged teaching” strand.
Great work to all involved.
Operación Impacto is off to a successful start this semester! Here are some of Impacto’s accomplishments by the numbers so far this year:
Check out their website here for more information.
On Wednesday, October 3rd, the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute and other organizations will host an Immigrant Family Unit Forum to discuss important questions about the family separation policy and the historic and transnational roots that led to the current situation.
The event will aim to:
Analyze the history of family separation and forced migration across the Americas.
Understand the current policies that are separating kids from their parents.
Identify concrete actions communities can take to help prevent more families from being separated.
Check out the event on Facebook here.
Tuesday, September 25th 2018 was National Voter Registration Day, and GW faculty members came together for a conversation on our role in promoting the importance of voting to our students. This event was part of the Nashman Center’s monthly series: Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship.
Guest speaker Zaneeta Daver, from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge opened with data on college-student voting rates as well as her own anecdotal experiences regarding campus initiatives that increase student voting.
Amy Cohen, Executive Director of the Nashman Center, then provided research findings on GWU’s voter turnout. This information was collected by the The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE). It is worth clicking through the NSLVE’s report on GW student voting, which compares voter turnout in 2012 and 2016, noting increases and decreases by a number of demographics, including by major of study. The report also compares the GW student vote to their national study pool. The big picture is that 57.9% of GW students voted in 2016, compared to 50.4% of students nation-wide.
Although the national average of college students who vote is relatively small, GW remains slightly above average: 57.9% of GW students voted in the 2016 election, compared to 50.4% of college students in the NSLVE study.
From there, the faculty gathered discussed measures to be taken to increase the population of students who vote. Zaneeta Daver framed the issue as having two components: teach the process and motivate.
Process issues including understanding how and when to register, how to obtain and submit an absentee ballot. For younger students, even obtaining an envelope and stamp has proven to be a barrier, as voting may be their only occasion to submit postal mail.
Several institution level efforts were suggested, including making sure that incoming first-year students are reminded to take steps to register and request an absentee ballot before they move to campus. Daver explained that some states require that absentee ballots be requested in person the first time a person votes - creating a barrier to students who didn’t think to do this before coming to campus in August.
The group also discussed faculty level efforts to address student voting, particularly, to what extent do we bring up voting in the classroom? Some described their existing approaches to weave the importance of voting into their course content. Some felt that this is easier to do for certain course topics/disciplines, however all felt it was important to bring up regardless.
One simple way suggested by Amy Cohen is to spend just five minutes in the beginning or end of class to introduce students to TurboVote. TurboVote is a GW-customized online service that makes registering to vote easier for students. Once they sign up, they receive timely notifications based on their local/state elections (i.e. registration deadline, absentee ballot deadline, and where to get information about candidates).
GW resources to share with students:
Resources on voter education (information on candidates and ballot initiatives/issues):
As we approach the 2018 midterm elections, our political system and national rhetoric are more polarized than ever. Join moderator Scott Simon, award-winning host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, for a thought-provoking conversation on the importance of civility, why it has broken down — and why it's necessary for solving the major challenges confronting our nation.
The event will take place on Wednesday, September 26th, with doors opening at 6:15 p.m and the panel discussion will take place from 7-9 p.m. After the main event, you will have the opportunity to continue the conversation and meet the panelists at a reception from 9-10 p.m. with drinks and light appetizers.
Tickets are general admission, so seats are first come, first served. Panelists Sally Kohn and Jonathan Haidt, PhD, will be signing copies of their books, which will be available for purchase.
To get seats click here and visit the APA website for more information.
GW's Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) will host Dr. Adam Gamoran, president of the William T. Grant Foundation, on Thursday, October 11, 2018 for a day of events. The foundation invests in research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States. The events will provide an opportunity for the GW research community to engage with Dr. Gamoran about the foundation's priorities and its funding opportunities for faculty, researchers, doctoral students and postdocs. View the full agenda and register to attend one or more of the events. For more information, please contact Touran Waters at tawaters@gwu.edu.
Register for free and learn more here.
Bob Woodward, one of the most notable journalists and non-fiction authors in the country, is best known for his original news reporting on the Watergate scandal in the 1970s with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein. His latest book, Fear: Trump in the White House, is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the first years in office. Woodward will be in conversation with Michael Schmidt, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and correspondent for The New York Times on Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
As of the most recent update, the event is sold out, but you can still visit this site for more information and tickets.
