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Notes from Nashman Center sponsored workshops, panel presentations, and more.

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All entering first year and transfer undergraduate students are take UW 1020, which is a four-credit course. UW 1020 is designated as a pre-disciplinary course: the goal is to enable students to write effectively in various contexts, within the university and beyond. Dr. Barlow's course integrates the development of writing competencies in varying contexts with a direct or indirect service learning component centered around community based research and advocacy.

...continue reading "UW 1020 University Writing: Writing Science and Health: Women’s Health as Point of Inquiry"

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In "Engagement Lab," by Professors Kevin Patton and Angela Stepancic students address a challenge posed by a community organization using interaction design. Focusing on social, environmental, and community impact, students collaborate with community stakeholders to create tools, and design new systems. Students have worked with a range of organizations, including Roosevelt STAY Academy and the Library of Congress.

Each semester, the core of the IxD MA program takes place in the Engagement Lab. Students have opportunities to take their design skills into the world to practice design with a focus on social, environmental, and community impact. Students work with faculty to gain a systemic understanding of challenges and investigate the histories that have led to the current moment. The teams then engage community members as partners in the process of designing tools and systems that can address those challenges. Students will focus on prototyping responses while evaluating from an at-scale perspective based on goals and metrics identified in conversation with the community partner.

Professors: Angela Stepancic, Kevin Patton

For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW: https://go.gwu.edu/cesc

...continue reading "CIXD 3820: Engagement Lab"

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"Principles of Ethical Leadership" by Prof. Wendy Wagner uses the “case-in-point” approach to leadership development. Rather than studying leadership through hypothetical case studies, a team-based community engagement project IS the case. Students examine their own group dynamics and their own roles as the project unfolds throughout the semester. Students build their own leadership skills by examining information and research, and then learning to apply that to their own thinking and behavior in the community project. 

The class emphasizes the responsibility leaders have to collaborate effectively in diverse groups, create a common vision based on shared values, and facilitate group dynamics both inclusive and empowering. Students are challenged to analyze their own biases, assumptions and understand the context of social issues.

Semester Reports...
...continue reading "HSSJ 2200: Principles of Ethical Leadership"

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Tara Scully’s BISC 1008 course teaches students about the evolution of life on earth; the value of other organisms, their role in our world, and how humans can cause harm to this infrastructure. Serving in the local community in a variety of ways, students learn about D.C. and regional ecological issues, such as agricultural challenges related to other organisms, the role oysters play in cleaning the Cheseapeake Bay, or the impact of pollution on the local watershed.

Community Engaged Scholarship at GW

Spring 2023 Project: A Plastics Audit, working with Rock Creek Conservancy and the Kennedy Center

...continue reading "BISC 1008 Understanding Organisms"

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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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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.

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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.

...continue reading "Post Event Synthesis from Deepening Partnerships: Youth Development"

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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.

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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.

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The Nashman Center's Deepening Partnerships events connect students, faculty, and community organizations in dialogue about our shared aims. The aim of Deepening Partnerships meetings is to hear each other's perspectives on the elements of an ideal campus-community partnership and to set goals together for improved collective processes. We will practice active and empathetic listening, build relationships, and honor our collective knowledge, experience and perspectives as we co-create a positive partnership for all involved.

This meeting will focus on campus-community partnerships for Youth Development.

Deepening Partnerships: Youth Development
Friday, March 24, 10:30am - noon
University Student Center, Room 402

 

In advance of this event, we ask all participants to familiarize themselves with the existing youth development partnerships, so everyone will have a sense of who is at the table.

...continue reading "Pre-Event Info for Deepening Partnerships: Youth Development"

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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.

...continue reading "FLC Assessing Student Learning in CES"

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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.

 

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Each semester at the University Writing Program's Writing Conference, the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service hosts a special panel of students representing community engaged writing UW 1020 courses. This event is always 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.

The panel, held Thursday, March 2, 5-6pm, was moderated by Wendy Wagner, Director of Community Engaged Scholarship at the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Student Panelists:

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

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Course Support Resources

Resources such as sample syllabus language and a step-by-step guide to managing your own GWServes course page is available here. Please reach out if you need additional support, such as:
  • 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

Use this online space to share service opportunities with students and have them report their service projects back to you. Find your page via this link, login (GW single sign-on), and use the "My Activity" menu to choose "Classes." Once you have found your course page, share the link to THAT page with students.

The Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship

Thursday, January 26th, 2:30-4pm, Register here
This event is designed to prepare students who are about to serve with the comunity this semester through a course. Share the registration link with your students and encourage their participation. The event will feature leaders of community serving organizations, faculty, and students, discussing how to make this the best possible learning experience for all involved. The event concludes with time to circulate and network so students can have one-on-one conversations with community partners about their service opportunities. You are welcome to use/alter the following language in your syllabus:

"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 

Course Guides are Nashman Center student staff who support you and your students. You or your students can email them by clicking the "Contact" button on your GWServes course page. Your course guide will reach out to you early next week to set up time to meet and discuss how they can support you this semester. For example:
  • 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

Please direct students to the recently updated resources for students in Community Engaged Scholarship Courses, available here:   https://go.gwu.edu/CESCourses 
These resources include:
  • 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

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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. 

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