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Provost Bracey recently reached out to GW faculty to invite you to join Convocation and Welcome Day of Service. We do hope you'll consider joining us! Due to renovations in the Smith Center, Convocation is being held later than usual this year, so please encourage any first-year students you work with to attend.

To attend Convocation, please register by Friday, September 15.
You can express interest in joining Welcome Day of Service when you register.

...continue reading "Join us for Convocation and Welcome Day of Service: Sept 23"

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We need mentors!  This summer the Nashman Center will have 75 college student interns -- all VISTA Summer Associates -- from GW and other schools around the country serving with us at GW in partnership with DC Public Schools, leading a middle school program that supports middle schoolers in making change in their school and community. This is part of an internship in which 300 total college students will serve at Smithsonian, Emerson Collective, in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Charlotte, NC.  
We are looking for professionals at all levels and backgrounds to serve as mentors to these students in a structured 8 week program, 30 minutes each week, from mid June to August 5. 
Please complete the ECYC Mentor application.  We will use this application to help pair our 300 interns with 300 mentors.  The application will be used to best pair interns with mentors based on background, interest and experience.
Feel free to share with colleagues who might be great mentors!

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Annual Conference Community Experiences & Pre-Conference Workshops announced

Join CUMU in Washington D.C., October 15–18, for our annual conference—Resilient Campuses. Resilient Cities. We’re proud to partner with local CUMU members and partners to offer Pre-Conference Workshops and Community Experiences. Pre-registration is required.

Read on for descriptions of the Pre-Conference Workshops (Oct. 16) and the Community Experiences (Oct. 17th). Community Experiences are terrific opportunities to meet in the community to learn more about innovative campus-community partnerships .

Pre-Conference Workshops, October 16

Advancing Institutional Infrastructure for World-Class Engagement: The Pitt Model
LEAD FACILITATOR: Lina Dostilio, University of Pittsburgh

Development and Fundraising for Community-Engaged Projects
LEAD FACILITATOR: Gavin Luter, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Emerging Trends and Innovations in College Student Mental Health
LEAD FACILITATOR: Dana Humphrey, Mary Christie Institute

Getting Started in Advocacy for Students’ Basic Needs Security
LEAD FACILITATOR: Thomas Hilliard, Temple University

Women’s Social & Economic Mobility: Career Advancement and Leadership through an Equity Lens
LEAD FACILITATOR: Gloria Thomas, HERS Network

Community Experiences, October 17

Anacostia High School and UDC: Inspiring and Facilitating Future Climate Change Leaders

HOSTED BY: University of the District of Columbia

Early College Academy: Strengthening the High School to College Transition

HOSTED BY: Trinity Washington University

Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative: Responding to Mass Incarceration with Education

HOSTED BY: Georgetown University

Life Pieces to Masterpieces: A Story of Transformative Partnership and Action

HOSTED BY: George Washington University

We’re All In: Martha’s Table Charters New Path as a Community-Led Organization

HOSTED BY: American University

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Dr. Greg Squires, Research Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at GW, was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association and SAGE Publishing. ...continue reading "Greg Squires Receives Urban Affairs Association Activist Scholar Award"

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Join GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design for their NEXT Festival from April 20 - May 20, 2023. "NEXT showcases the talents and scholarship of graduating Corcoran students. This year, the school is launching a festival format to expand the depth and breadth of its programming, with performances, exhibitions and symposia across campus". Events include photojournalism presentations, a dance concert, and more. Click here to learn more and RSVP for the events.

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Join the Elliot School of International Affairs and General Dynamics Information Technology Inc in a panel discussion and networking event on Supply Chain Across Borders. This event will explore how current events are impacting global supply chain issues. Hear from Flor Aguilar Kim, Tamika Abbott, Laura D'Antonio, and Alex McGuire. The advice will take place on April 11 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the Elliot School of International Affairs State Room. Click here to register.

 

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The Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health is hosting a screening of the documentary, Birthing Justice, a film created by Women in the Room Productions. The film captures the experiences and challenges of Black women, their families, caretakers and advocates, and examines the structures and systems that determine disparate rates of mortality. Ultimately, this pivotal film celebrates the efforts to fix America’s broken medical system and transform this narrative of tragedy into one of hope. The showing of the film will be followed by a discussion panel of local advocates in the field of maternal health. The event will be held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health in Auditorium 100. The FREE event will be held on Friday, March 24th from 1 - 4 pm. Registration will open at 12:30 and the film will start promptly at 1 pm. Registration: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdPxVFDs.../viewform...Learn more: https://www.birthingjustice.com

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Join GW's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy and speaker, Ambassador to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Laura Holgate in discussing nuclear security and a Q&A. This event will take place March 17, 2023, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm at 1957 E St NWvLindner Commons. Click here to RSVP.

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Join the Global Women's Institute in celebrating a decade of bridging research and action on March 9th in the Jack Morton Auditorium in the School for Media and Public Affairs building from 3:30-7pm. This event will have Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and GW President Mark Wrighton as speakers. Click here to learn more and register. 

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Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program for a Virtual Event on securing reproductive rights and rebuilding the wall between church and state. The guest speakers are Alicia Johnson and Jeryl Hayes. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. This event will take place virtually on Wednesday, March 8th. Register for the event here

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The Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs and the Global Women's Institute are hosting an event on International Women's Day featuring Azar Nafisi, Iranian-American author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Read Dangerously. The topics of women-led protests in Iran and Nafisi's experiences as a feminist and an Iranian woman in exile will be discussed followed by a Q&A session. This event will take place on Wednesday, March 8th from 12 pm-2 pm in  Lindner Family Commons 1957 E Street NW, Room 602. Click here to register. 

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Thursday, March 2, 5-6pm
Zoom link: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/s/95921677157 

Community Engaged Scholarship Panel, Hosted by the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service. This is a great opportunity to more deeply understand how students make meaning of their service-learning experiences, adding complexity and quality to their research and writing. Panel moderated by Wendy Wagner, Director of Community Engaged Scholarship at the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Student Panelists:

Both student panelists were enrolled in Phyllis Ryder's, UW 1020: Writing for Social Change in Washington, DC

Student Panelists

Sneha Srivatsa
"Power Structures and the Ability of Nonprofits to Initiate Policy Change"
Srivatsa served with Miriam’s Kitchen.

Taytum Valentine Wymer
"In Decadence and Decay: The Capitalist and Colonial Logics of Homelessness in Post-Industrial Washington DC"
Wymer served with Ward 2 Mutual Aid.

...continue reading "GW University Writing Conference: Student Panel on Community Engaged Writing"

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Join The GW Iranian Student Association, the SMHS Clara Bliss Hinds Women in Medicine and Science Society, and the Global Women’s Institute on March 22nd, 2023 at 5 pm in raising support and awareness for women in Iran. This event is open to the Washington D.C. community and is being organized by the GW Iranian Student Association, the Clara Bliss Hinds Women in Medicine and Science Society, and the Global Women’s Institute. The event will feature remarks from GW President Mark Wrighton, Roya Hakakian, Mahnaz Afkhami, and Former U.S. Ambassador for Global Women's Issues and Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Melanne Verneer. Find more details below and RSVP now!

Since September 2022, when Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman was arrested and killed while in the custody of the morality police for alleged
noncompliance with Islamic dress codes, the women of Iran have been leading protests demanding social justice and their basic human rights.
They have been joined by both men and children, and horrifically during the past four months alone, close to 600 Iranians have been murdered at the
hands of government-sanctioned officials, and over 20,000 more have been arrested. Students are among these protests, they have demonstrated through peaceful sit-in strikes and marches. Anti-government protests have become hotspots of abuse and various forms of human rights violations. Organized attacks in the wake of Mahsa’s death targeting women, minority populations, and protestors have been profusely decried across the world.

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