Event Recaps – Page 2

Conversations Series: Facilitating Deeper Reflection

AlberoFebruary 10, 2020October 3, 2024Leave a comment

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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Conversations Series: The Intersection of SOTL and Service Learning

aemebteOctober 7, 2019October 3, 2024Leave a comment

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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Conversations Series: The Big Data Share

wagnerwSeptember 6, 2019October 3, 2024Leave a comment

The September 5th, Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship focused on recent research findings, student surveys, and student service data.

The presentation slides from this event are available here.

The Periscope video is available here.

Wendy Wagner, the Nashman Center's director of community engaged scholarship, presented these findings and facilitated a conversation about uses of the data and new lines of inquiry for the coming year.

We are happy to present/discuss specific findings with your department faculty as well. Contact wagnerw@gwu.edu to schedule a department presentation.

While many topics arose, important themes were: cost of transportation to service sites, future data gathering and reporting, and further mining of the data from the MSL research study.

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Conversations Series: Dr. Maranda Ward The History of Inequity in DC

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On Wednesday, March 26, the Nashman Center hosted our March Breakfast on Community Engaged Scholarship at Gelman Library! Doctor Maranda Ward, a Nashman Affiliated Faculty member and Professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, presented and led a robust discussion.

The presentation focused on historic inequality in D.C. that has perpetuated to this day and the ways that GW faculty and students can interact with organizations fighting for justice in an appropriate way - by lifting up communities in the areas where they are strong. Thank you to everyone who came out for this enlightening conversation.

If you missed the event or want a chance to review what was discussed today check out the PowerPoint from Dr. Ward here.

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Conversations Series: Community Engaged Scholarship and Activist Movements

kmisraFebruary 28, 2019October 3, 2024Leave a comment

The Black History Month Nashman Breakfast Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship was hosted this week by the Black Lives Matter Faculty Learning Community (FLC).

Some BLM FLC goals that faculty kept in mind during discussions were:

Going against socialization
Preparing students to live with tension
Cultural mindfulness, humility, and competence

If you missed the presentation, or want a recap, the PowerPoint from the presentation can be found here and video of the presentation can be found here.

Dr. Maranda C. Ward is part of the school of Medicine and Health Sciences and she stated that their mission as a school is “excellence through diversity and inclusion” and “addressing the challenges of health equity.” Dr. Ward created a health equity course audit rubric which assessed health equity classes based on if they were implementing diverse cultural perspectives and found that many of the classes weren’t including diverse course work. Now as a department they are trying to figure out the best way to revise curriculum.

Dr. Imani Cheers teaches digital storytelling and revised her syllabus to include Black Lives Matter themes and issues. Students were assigned projects about social justice advocacy, researched areas outside of Foggy Bottom, and created a website of their videos, which you can find here: https://monumedia2018.wixsite.com/home

Dr. Susan LeLacheur and Dr. Howard Straker teach together in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In their classroom, they diversified case scenarios, used implicit bias tests and added material on African American historical trauma, and prenatal care. The session ended with faculty discussing ways to talk about race in their classes with conversations about Governor Northam and how to discuss the issue with students.

Thank you to the BLM FLC for a great scholarship!

If you would like to join this or any other FLC, information is here.

John Saltmarsh on Community Engagement and Higher Education

kmisraFebruary 1, 2019October 3, 2024Leave a comment

A recap of our conversation with John Saltmarsh including links to resources, the video, presentation slides, and articles mentioned in the session.

If you missed the presentation or want to review parts of the session the entire conversation can be found at the link: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yoKMjMmlbdGQ feel free to share widely.
Slides from the session are available here 1/30/19 Saltmarsh Conversation Slides

There were so many great takeaways in yesterday’s conversation we cannot cover them all and encourage you to listen to the session.

The link between faculty diversity and support for community-engaged scholarship. Research by Saltmarsh and others suggests a link between explicit rewards for community-engaged scholarship and an institution’s ability to attract and retain faculty of color and women. Young faculty in particular, are interested in scholarly careers that link knowledge and learning with the public good. They are seeking institutions that will support them in those aims. Link here for a paper on this issue co-authored by Saltmarsh: “Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education” (2011).

The need for both policy and faculty education in changing institutional culture. Saltmarsh’s current research is examining an institution that recently experienced an intentional shift to support community-engaged scholarship, including a call for all departments to explicitly address support for this work in their bylaws and policies. More on that project is provided here: UNC faculty plan.

Clear policies are necessary but are not sufficient. As a university provost once told Saltmarsh, “policies don’t vote.” It is important that faculty involved in reviewing tenure cases understand how to evaluate community-engaged research for quality and impact. Saltmarsh noted, “Can we value a range of scholarly products? We have to rethink that the only thing that counts is a peer reviewed journal, which may not be of interest to a community partner. These journals are highly specialized, which means they are read by very few. We have to explicitly rethink ‘impact’.”

Resources referred to in the Saltmarsh presentation:

2013 Tulane White Paper -academic review and engagement

HERI Faculty Surveys

2010 Carnegie data

Cleveland State University- Confronting the Careless (Byron White)

Links to papers by Saltmarsh:

“Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education” (2016) (Available at the Nashman Center)

“‘To Serve a Larger Purpose:’ Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education” (2011) (Available at the Nashman Center)
“Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement” (2011)

“Democratic Engagement White Paper” (2009)
"Service-Learning in the Disciplines" the AAHE series of 18 monographs, which continues to be a top resource for faculty learning how their scholarship and their students' learning can be achieved in the context of community partnerships. (Available at the Nashman Center)

We hope you’ll be able to use these resources and we’ll see you in
February at the next conversation.

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Fall 2018 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship

nnekaDecember 17, 2018October 3, 2024Leave a comment

December 17, 2018/ Wendy Wagner

This event was held Friday December 7th, Noon - 3:45 pm, Marvin Center, 3rd floor

Link here for the Fall 2018 Symposium program.

Link here for information about the upcoming Spring 2019 Symposium.

Highlights this semester included:

a lunchtime presentation by students in Dr. Leslie Jacobson’s Theatre for Social Change course, followed by Dr. Jacobson’s facilitated discussion and reflection.
Over 25 showcase presentations, including:
- Advocacy films created and presented by students in SMPA 4190 Senior Capstone: Online Journalism Workshop (Instructor: Imani M. Cheers). If you missed them: https://monumedia2018.wixsite.com/home
- Undergraduate community engaged MAP-IT projects from HSCI 2195: Applied Health Equity (Instructor: Maranda Ward)
- Research and reflection presentations by students in SOCY 2105 (Instr: Greg Squires), HSCI 2195: Applied Health Equity (Instructor: Maranda Ward), 3100W: Program Planning and Evaluation (Instr: Michelle Kelso), HSSJ 3152: Fact, Field, Fiction (Instr: Emily Morrison), HSSJ 1177 (Instr: Peter Konwerski) & SPAN 3040/ Operacion Impacto (Instr: Dolores Perillian), HSSJ 1100: Introduction to Human Services and Social Justice (Instr: Wendy Wagner), and HSSJ 4198: Citizen Leadership, Civic House Scholars Program (Instr: Wendy Wagner)
Concurrent Sessions, including panel presentations and reflective discussions:
- Community Engagement through the Arts (facilitated by Aselin Lands, Director of ArtReach GW)
- East of the River: Inequity in DC (facilitated by Maranda Ward, Visiting Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership)
- Partnerships in Youth Development/Education (facilitated by Lottie Baker, Assistant Professor in GSEHD)
- The Sustainability Forum (facilitated by Tara Scully, Assistant Professor of Biology and Director of GW’s Sustainability minor)
- Operación Impacto (facilitated by Dolores Perillán, Instructor, Spanish Literature and Director of Operación Impacto)
- What does MMIW mean? A dialogue about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (facilitated by Lisa Benton-Short, Chair of the Geography department). More information available here: https://findourwomen.org/

FLC on CBPR: Resources and Recap

kmisraOctober 5, 2018October 3, 2024Leave a comment

The Faculty Learning Community studying Community Based Participatory Research gathered this week for their first meeting of the semester. After sharing progress on our research endeavors, we focused our conversation on issues related to building mutual trust and empowerment in community partner relationships. A few highlights:

It is important to consider the difference between a partnership with community members and with a community organization and how the distinction influences the research initiative.
What is our role if our research reveals that members of the community aren’t best served by our community partner? How do we handle communicating those findings in a way that preserves a positive long-term relationship with the organization staff? Building a strong trusting relationship prior to that eventuality is key, as is trusting the research process itself and the value of trustworthy data.
How staff turnover in the nonprofit sector, schools, and public agencies can affect the timeline of our research projects. Is there a way to prevent larger delays than necessary or is this just a reality of the work?
Honoring the voice of the community in the direction of projects is a hard and fast value in this work - but what if the staff we are working with is new and inexperienced and, not to put too fine a point on it… we think they’re wrong?

If you are interested in joining a Faculty Learning Community in 2019, contact Wendy Wagner: wagnerw@gwu.edu.