Category: Nashman Center Programs
Notes from Nashman Center sponsored workshops, panel presentations, and more.
Share with Students: Apply for the Knapp Fellowship
The Steven and Diane Robinson Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning aims to recognize, reward, and facilitate creative public service and academic engagement led by GWU students, undergraduate and graduate. Selected students design and implement entrepreneurial service-learning projects that make a significant difference in the lives of others. Apply by May 24th, 2023! Click this link to apply.
Post Event Synthesis from Deepening Partnerships: Youth Development
The Nashman Center would like to thank all the participants of this energizing and productive event, including 6 faculty/administrators, 8 community organization representatives, and 12 students. Community partners represented ArtReach GW, For Love of Children, Horton's Kids, Latino Student Fund, Little Friends for Peace, and Raising a Village.
The aim of these meetings is to approach the cycle of strategic planning, implementation of new plans, and assessment of progress in a way that involves all stakeholders in all stages of the process.
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Nashman Center Programs: Apply or Nominate a Student for the JCC Prize for Community Impact
Send in your application or nominate someone to apply for the Julian Clement Chase Prize for Community Impact. This award is the leading prize to honor GW students for excellence in community service impact. Applications will highlight the work being done this year! You can nominate yourself or others. The prize provides lasting examples of the impact that students can have when working with members of the community to enhance the quality of life in the DC community. Click here to learn more.
Share With Students: Register for the Nashman Center’s 2023 Veteran Day of Service
The 2023 Veteran Day of Service (VDoS) will take place on Saturday, March 25th from 10AM-4PM. Registration is open between now and March 21st, 2023. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members are welcome to register. Click here to register
VDoS brings together military-affiliated and civilian populations to serve those who have served, connect GW students, faculty and staff with the larger community, and elevate communities across the DC Metro region.
FLC Assessing Student Learning in CES: Meeting Recap
The Faculty Learning Community on Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Community Engaged Scholarship gathered for our second meeting on March 9th. Note that as we gather resources, these will be ultimately shared on the Nashman Center website. Anyone interested in student learning outcomes assessment is still most welcome to join this group.
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A House is Not a Home: Theatre for Social Change Performance, March 2
On Thursday, March 2nd, 2:45-4pm as part of the GW Diversity Summit, the Nashman Center is hosting a performance directed by Leslie Jacobson, Professor Emerita of Theatre.
Jacobson is one of GW's most prolific community engaged scholars, creating opportunities for community members to engage in advocacy and public education through theatrical performance. This performance represents a long-standing relationship between Jacobson and Street Sense Media.
GW University Writing Conference: Student Panel on Community Engaged Writing
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.
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Ready for Spring Courses
Course Support Resources
- Identifying more community partner projects for students
- Course design considerations
- Connecting assignments to community engagement
- Rubrics for evaluating reflection assignments
- Facilitating reflection discussions in the classroom
Your GWServes Course Page
The Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship
"It is important that community engagement is done with empathy, intention, and personal reflection. We will aim for a strong start this semester by joining the Nashman Center's Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. This event features leaders of local community serving organizations and students who served through a course last semester. The event is Thursday, January 26th, 2:30-4pm. Please register at this link so the Nashman Center will be able to confirm your attendance. Notify me as soon as possible if your schedule does not allow you to attend. I will share a pre-reflection paper as an alternate assignment."
Nashman Center Course Guides
- Field student questions about how to find service opportunities or how to report their service activities in GWServes
- Distribute and collect Liability Release Agreement Forms for you
- Regularly review student service reports and alert the instructor to any problems or reflections that should be addressed.
- Communicate with community partners to ensure the student projects are meeting their expectations and going to plan
- Collect anecdotes, photos or other artifacts from your students and community partners to help us better describe the impact of your course for partners and student learning
- Forward your students information about additional Nashman Center opportunities, like the Clinton Global Initiative, student grant opportunities, or the Knapp Fellowship program.
Support for Students
- Student Guide to Community Engaged Scholarship Courses
- Student Guide to Reporting Course Based Service Projects on GWServes
- Navigating the DC Public School background check process
- Community Engaged Scholarship Publication Outlets for Students
Nashman Center Programs: Give-A-Gift Campaign Concludes December 20th
All funds raised and gifts purchased off the wishlist go directly to our community partners to provide holiday gifts and winter essentials for D.C. families. This year our partners are Academy of Hope, CentroNía, Latin American Youth Center, Housing Up!, D.C. Department of Human Services, and DCPS Connected Schools. We will collect contributions through Tuesday, December 20th, 2022. Donate now.
Nashman Center Programs: Seeking Volunteer Readers for the School Without Walls Senior Reading Program
Event Recap, Deepening Partnerships: LAYC and GW
Deepening Partnerships: The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) and George Washington University
February 25, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Hosted by the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service
Partner: Latin American Youth Center
This Deepening Partnerships event brought together LAYC staff, and the GW students, faculty, and staff who have worked with the LAYC this year on a variety of service projects.
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Deepening Partnerships Pre-Event Information: LAYC and GW
This Nashman Center's Deepening Partnerships event with the Latin American Youth Center will connect students, faculty, and LAYC staff in dialogue about our shared aims. Our collective goal is to practice active and empathic listening, deepen relationships, and honor our collective knowledge, experience and perspectives as we co-create our partnerships and initiatives.
February 25, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Hosted by the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service
Partner: Latin American Youth Center
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Recap: The Conversation on “Facilitating a Deeper Reflection”
The February 7th Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship focused on facilitating a deeper reflection.
Dr. Wendy Wagner, the Nashman Center's Director of Community Engaged Scholarship (CES), facilitated a discussion that focused on how community engaged scholarship courses can include more of the pathways of service, ways to weave critical reflection from service into class discussions (and vice versa), and resources to help facilitate deeper critical reflections about service.
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Recap: Conversation on the Intersection of SOTL and Service Learning
The October 3rd Conversation focused on the Intersection of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SOTL) and service learning. The discussion was led by Maria de la Fuente, (Spanish and Linguistics).
SOTL research is the systematic inquiry about student learning, grounded in theory and research, and disseminated through scholarly publications or presentations. Community-engaged learning pedagogies like service learning are excellent spaces for SOTL research.
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