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Published on Leave a comment on Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Proposals Due June 22nd!

Faculty Call for Proposals due 6/15: Teaching Day SoTL Poster Session

Together with the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, we are sponsoring the 3rd annual SoTL poster session at Teaching Day 2018 on September 27.

For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit go.gwu.edu/sotl. 
Contact Maria de la Fuente or Elise Ruckert with questions.

Looking for resources on the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching?

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Published on Leave a comment on President Knapp meets with 2018 & 2019 Knapp Fellows

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President Knapp met with 2017-2018 Knapp Fellows Chloe King and Gayatri Malhotra to hear about the projects that they undertook over the course of the year and how community engaged scholarship made a difference in the places that they conducted their projects. Want to learn more about Gayatri's project? Check out this interview with her https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/the-nashman-faculty-update/2017/12/22/knapp-fellow-spotlight-gayatri-malhotra learn more about Chloe's project here https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/the-nashman-faculty-update/2017/11/3/knapp-fellow

We are so proud of the outgoing Knapp Fellows as was President Knapp!

He also met with incoming Knapp Fellows Gillian Joseph and Kristen McInerney to hear about their planned Knapp Fellowship projects for the 2018-2019 academic year and how they will engage the community with their research. To see what inspires Gillian and Kristen's work check out their interviews here:

Kristen: https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/the-nashman-faculty-update/2018/4/30/knapp-fellowship-winner-kristen-mcinerney

Gillian: https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/the-nashman-faculty-update/2018/4/27/knapp-fellowship-interview-with-gillian-joseph

Published on Leave a comment on Spring 2018 Symposium Highlights Community Engaged Scholarship in Every Corner of Campus, Peter Konwerski awarded for his work as faculty new Knapp Fellows named

The Spring 2018 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship included presentations from students in the Law School, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Columbian College, Milken School of Public Health and GW Nursing School.

Breakout sessions highlighted student work in University Writing, Spanish, Human Service Social Justice and History courses in addition to work done by GW Nashman Center in on Ethics of Service, GW School of Business innovations projects and the work of Knapp Fellow Chloe King on Food Waste in DC Public Schools.

New Knapp Fellows Kristen McInerney and Gillian Joseph were announced at the event and Peter Konwerski was awarded the Faculty Engagement Award by Honey Nashman.

The poster session encompassed scholarship from students and faculty in every corner of campus and across a wide variety of disciplines. There were over 88 student presenters and the full program can be found here.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your community engaged scholarship!

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Published on Leave a comment on Faculty Conversation: COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES & POLITICS IN THE CLASSROOM

The Nashman Center's Community Engaged Scholarship program hosted a successful Breakfast Conversation at The National Churchill Library and Center at Gelman on Thursday, April 19th, 2018. The conversation series supports faculty across a wide variety of disciplines at the university who engage in research and teaching that centers the community.

A big thank you to Dr. Jordan Potash from GW's Art Therapy Program and Laurie McPherson, an Organizational, Team and Individual Transformation and Effectiveness Consultant for leading this interactive and important conversation. Resources can be found by clicking  power point slides for the conversation and two featured articles  here and here.

Faculty learned how to facilitate discussion of political/controversial topics in the classroom and about difficulties that can arise in educational settings when students feel unheard or time is a concern in discussion of content and surfacing political issues.

Participants worked in small groups to brainstorm issues they face in medicine, nursing, education, and the humanities and then and then talked through possible solutions. Research was presented on best practices and the resources from the event are attached.

The group came up with several ideas based on the literature and their experiences in class. Suggestions included budgeting more time and making an effort to discuss issues in class, meeting with students one-on-one to better understand their perspectives, recognizing bias in ourselves, and keeping in mind that everyone comes from a different perspective and identity.

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Published on Leave a comment on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Poster Session

The University Teaching and Learning Center, in collaboration with the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, has issued an invitation for faculty to propose a poster for the 3rd annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Poster Session to be held during Teaching Day 2018 on September 27.

We strongly encourage faculty using service-learning practices in their courses to review the data on their students' learning experiences and submit!

"SoTL is scholarly inquiry and research into teaching practices; projects can be big or small.  Examples of SoTL include, but are not limited to:

  • Measuring changes in teaching or learning over time
  • Examining how students understand a particular aspect or concept of a course.
  • Assessing the effectiveness of a particular assignment, assessment, or pedagogical intervention or approach
  • Comparing groups of students across a single class or across multiple course experiences.

For more information on SoTL posters, including how to submit your proposal, please visit go.gwu.edu/sotl.

For sample SoTL posters, see last year's contributions to Teaching Day.

For questions about doing SoTL and the Poster Session, contact Professor Maria de la Fuente.

Published on Leave a comment on Upcoming events from the Global Women’s Center

Don't let the end of the semester be the end of learning for you or your students there are some excellent events in late April and early May from the Global Women's Center on international women's issues, mental health and women's rights.

Published on Leave a comment on Town Hall at The ARC! Come Discuss Building Resilience and Community in DC

Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the Town Hall discussion at the ARC on community and resilience more information at the link go.gwu.edu/bcrtownhall.

Published on Leave a comment on Breakfast Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship: Dissemination of Student Research

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On March 29th, the Nashman Center held another session in our series of Breakfast Conversations on Community-Engaged Scholarship. At this session, on Dissemination of Student Research, Nashman Faculty at GWU discussed disseminating student research to the largest audience possible.

Michelle Kelso from the Sociology Department, Phyllis Ryder from the University Writing Department, Dana Hines from the Nursing School, and Christopher Klemek from the History Department shared their experiences.

In Professor Kelso’s class, she had students evaluate a local non-profit organization. The students collected information, created surveys, and wrote 20-page papers on their research.

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Another great representation of community work in the classroom is Phyllis Ryder’s University Writing Class. Students were assigned to write about social change. Some of her students have been published - read some of their contributions here.

Professor Hines' project involved students in the nursing school, who made a powerful impact within the transgender community as a result of their research.

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Professor Klemek and students from his class have created a community history project where they go to local communities in the D.C. area and collect historical data. They partnered with local community organizations to research the history of local areas.

Student research can be submitted here for the Julian Clement Chase Prize, which is a $1,000 prize that recognizes exceptional research writing projects focused on the District of Columbia in all undergraduate classes and in all disciplines at the George Washington University.

Want to get involved with Community-Engaged Scholarship at GW, or are you already doing work that centers the needs of the community with your students? We’d love to meet you. Our next breakfast conversation will be on April 19, 2018 from 9:45-10:45 a.m. in the Churchill Center at the Gelman Library.

Published on Leave a comment on What is Cesar Chavez Dolores Huerta Day? How can faculty contribute?

What is Cesar Chavez Dolores Huerta Day? How can faculty contribute?The Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta Day 2018 is just a few days away! Learn more about who Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta are, the different volunteer opportunities, and events on campus, that is leading up to March 30’s CCGW Day of Celebration at The George Washington University.

Who is Cesar Chavez? Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activists who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. They are best known for their efforts in gaining better working conditions for thousands of agricultural workers who labored on farms for low wages and under severe conditions. Thus, Chavez’s efforts in changing the narrative, through non-violent marches, strikes and boycotts, led to the first legislation enacting the Bill of Rights for agricultural workers. For his commitment to social justice, Chavez was recognized with the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for his lifelong dedication to better the lives of others.

The Cesar Chavez - Dolores Huerta day is an annual celebration and call to action at The George Washington University. Supported and encouraged by the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences Spanish Program and The Honey W. Nashman Center, their aim is to bring awareness of who Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta are and their commitment towards social justice. Through this, they are determined in continue to share the values that Chávez lived by and Huerta continuously embraces in her activism today.

What are Cesar Chavez’s core values?*

  1. Acceptance of all People
  2. Celebrating Community
  3. Respect for Life and the Environment
  4. Non-violence
  5. Innovation
  6. A Preference in helping the Most Needy
  7. Knowledge
  8. Sacrifice
  9. Service to Others
  10. Determination

Faculty can assist by promoting CCDHGW Day opportunities to students, begin discussion narratives relating to social justice, and/or attend/volunteer at CCDHGW Day 2018.

Schedule and more information below:

The Honey W. Nashman Center is once again partnering with CCGW and the Campaign for Change Grant Competition in order to get more students involved in all forms of community engagement, including service and activism. The CCGW dares you to do more by joining them them in their upcoming events to learn more and get involved.

  • Tuesday, March 27: II RGSL Photography Contest[a]
  • Deadline 3pm
  • Thursday, March 29th: Eduardo Chávez’s screening of Hailing Cesar, a film honoring his grandfather[b]
  • 6:00pm Marvin Center 309

Published on Leave a comment on Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Coming to GW Textile Museum Spring of 2019

Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms will be on display at GWU at the textile museum in the spring of 2019. This could be a great opportunity for students to think about a variety of topics-art, civic engagement, political science, sociology, economics. Think about adding an exhibit visit or readings about Rockwell and the political events that inspired project to your Spring 2019 syllabus.

To start your reading here are two articles on how you can use Rockwell to engage your students in discussion about this work and it's meaning in 2018-2019

https://upcountryonline.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/finding-common-ground-the-making-of-community/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/arts/new-york-historical-society-norman-rockwell-four-freedoms.html

Published on Leave a comment on Free Speech and Democracy on Campus via Knight Foundation

This new article from the Knight Foundation discusses the politics of free speech on campus. This would be a great article for in class use and we hope that you'll join us for our next conversation to learn more about how to handle politics in the classroom RSVP for the free event http://evite.me/1PzscUzDeM and to read the report from Knight click here.

Published on Leave a comment on GW Teach Monthly Newsletter

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GW Teach is involved with schools in our community-check out their latest newsletter on STEM teaching

At the intersection of science and education sits GW Teach an initiative of Columbian College and the Graduate School of Education and Human Development learn more about the communities that GWTeach serves and their mission here https://gwteach.gwu.edu/

Published on Leave a comment on Urban Sustainability Laboratory: Bottom-Up Politics

Please join the Urban Sustainability Laboratory, George Washington University Seminar on Bottom Up Politics and the Metropolitan Policy Center of the School of Public Affairs at American University for a symposium to identify the processes of engagement by which local groups take up collective responses to community-level problems.

Thursday April 12 2018, 3-5pm, at the Wilson Center, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

Click here for more information and to RSVP

Published on Leave a comment on Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Day at GW: March 30th

Once again, the GW community will be inspired by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. This event is held in the Marvin Center and includes artwork exhibitions, workshops, performances, panel discussions, and speakers.

Note the event will be kicked off this year the evening prior, with a special film screening and guest speaker, Eduardo Chávez (March 29th, 6pm, Marvin Center Rm 309). 

Many thanks to Dolores Perillán and the many faculty, staff and students working on this event.

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