Category: GW Events, News, and Opportunities

The big day is nearly upon us. On Saturday, September 10th, over 2,400 students will participate in the 8th annual GW Freshman Day of Service. Serving at 44 sites in DC, MD, and VA, students will be cleaning up, beautifying community spaces, giving back to veterans, improving sustainability initiatives, and much more.  

• If you teach Freshmen, consider discussing their service experiences in your classes this week.

If you would like to integrate Freshman Day of Service into your course in the future (or the MLK Day of Service and Leadership for a Spring semester course) please let us know. The Nashman Center staff would be happy to work with you to select an optimal community placement to connect meaningful to your course learning goals. Please know these events require months of intentional preparation. Now is a good time to contact us about connecting your Spring course to the MLK Day of Service and Leadership.

Campus Compact’s 2016 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award

The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good.

Please email gwsl@gwu.edu with nominations by May 1st, 2016 at 5pm.

Despite some rain, GW’s annual Freshman Day of Service was another success for the Center.

For those who teach freshmen level service-learning courses, we encourage you to consider building Freshman Day of Service into your syllabus in the future. Center staff would be happy to meet to talk about ways to intersect this experience with your course learning goals: gwsl@gwu.edu.