On September 28th 2022 from 3:00-4:30 pm ET on Zoom, the Texas Woman's University is hosting a free webinar on building climate resiliency in COVID-impacted communities. Zoom Link.
The SENCER Center for Innovation-Southwest and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Woman's University will host a presentation by SENCER leader Dr. Bob Franco, Professor of Pacific Anthropology and Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Kapi‘olani Community College.
The 2023 Continuums of Service Conference is collecting proposals for the conference in Honolulu, HI from March 14-17 2023. Proposal deadline is October 7th.
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"In 2021, when we last hosted COS, we were focused on the broader context of social injustice and climate change. Honoring the work that has been done and recognizing that these long-term grand challenges persist at home and abroad, we now think and act within a broader and perilous context of COVID-19, the increased likelihood of new and varying infectious diseases, and new threats to democracy and equity in an even more uncertain world. How do we turn the tide on these tremendous challenges we face and renew our energy to ameliorate them – urgently and for the long-term?
How do we revitalize ourselves in the face of higher education’s challenges to explore power, privilege and positionality, and inspire and mobilize action and advocacy to tackle grand challenges -- social, ecological, and economic - that we are all facing?
As these challenges will likely increase over time, a big focus for the conference this year will be on cultivating sustainability and resilience, keeping ourselves grounded in place, and bridging across multiple social, biophysical, energy and capital dimensions for whole systems thinking and relationship building. From the campus to the community, from the mountains to the sea, turning the tides requires embracing complex systems and nurturing the ability to bounce forward, not back, after crises. At our conference this year, participants will have a chance to put this into practice both virtually and remotely.
This year's conference will offer attendees an experience co-hosted by community organizations and nonprofits, centering local and indigenous knowledge, highlighting transformational campus-community partnerships and allowing participants to think deeply while visiting and participating in projects."
This article from GWtoday highlights eight journalism students who worked to collect stories from their neighborhoods with the goal of elevating stories from unheard communities. Read more here.
"Students were assigned communities to cover at the beginning of the semester and in the summer participated in a kind of travel program, with GW students joining their colleagues in West Virginia to assist their stories for two weeks, then vice versa. This extended engagement kept students from falling into the trap of “parachute journalism,” which can lead to misrepresentation and deepen the dangerous mistrust between journalists and the public."
The Pennsylvania Council for International Education (PACIE) is hosting a conference from September 30th to October 1st at Haverford College, Haverford, PA. More information and registration.
Following an invigorating October 2021 Conference, Global Inclusivity, Justice, and Sustainability - From Pennsylvania, In Pennsylvania, PACIE is hosting its 2022 Conference on the theme of Building Belonging, with special attention to the ways in which global diasporas intersect with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, historically and today.
Educators at all levels, kindergarten through graduate study, are welcome. Participants will experience an inspiring and critical conference. Plenaries and sessions will be grounded in sharing our assets and insights across the state. Many of those same exceptional presenters will challenge our Commonwealth community to wrestle through the critical issues we must address to move forward together, connected with the rest of the world, in ways that advance justice, inclusion, and sustainability.
PACIE is steadfastly focused on advancing excellent global education for all Pennsylvanians. With this core mission in mind, PACIE will solicit proposals from K-12, college, and university educators on any of the following related topics and questions:
As travel resumes, how do I reconnect with the extraordinary experiences international education offers, while adapting toward what is needed in 2023 and beyond?
How does experiential learning - and travel - enrich and amplify learning for students as they work to grapple with critical questions related to global competence?
How can deepening understanding of the richness and complexity of Pennsylvania history and contemporary community support students’ understanding of global and transnational issues, while building more inclusive classrooms and schools?
How have online connections and online learning platforms - accelerated through the pandemic - enabled new international collaborations and how can that contribute to Pennsylvania students’ global competence?
What critical topics, lesson plans, and classroom strategies advance welcoming and inclusion while being attentive to the complexity of the world we live in, real differences, and real injustices?
How are schools and universities building global thinking across the curriculum, intersecting with diversity, education, and inclusion efforts, and moving beyond single efforts or programs?
How do international travel opportunities connect with students’ understanding of their home communities and opportunities for inclusion and respect in both places?
How are educators better including historically marginalized Pennsylvania histories, especially Black, Indigenous, and Latinx histories?
How does evaluation and assessment of global programming verify the relationship between intent and outcomes, building cultures of continuous improvement?
The conference includes meals from Friday breakfast through Saturday lunch. Registration rates begin at $160 for K12 educators and PACIE members.
The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation is hosting a virtual institute on "Teaching Social Action" from January 3-5 2023. More information and registration link.
"This three-day virtual institute will introduce faculty and staff to an experiential learning approach for incorporating social action campaigns into either a semester-long course or co-curricular workshop series. In this transformative experiential learning model, students develop and launch a social actioncampaign of their choosing during the semester the course is taught. The student campaigns seek to change a rule, regulation, norm, or practice of an institution, whether on campus or in the community.
Our long-term goal is to mainstream this model for teaching active democracy. The world needs more citizens who have developed their knowledge and skills in bringing about positive change through real world experience. While not all of the student campaigns are successful, many have been and those that haven’t succeeded have still taught valuable lessons to those who led them and those who were engaged in one form or another."
