Professional Development Events and Resources

Community Campus Partnerships For Health Webinar: Essential Employees

wagnerwApril 21, 2020Leave a comment

Community Campus Partnerships For Health is co-hosting a webinar series: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID-19. The next scheduled webinar is:

Behind the Scenes and In the Shadows: Essential Employees in COVID-19
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 1pm EST
Register Here.

Speakers:

Madeline Sterling, MD, Internal Medicine Physician at Weill Cornell Medicine
Antonio Tovar, PhD, Interim Executive Director of Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.
Faith Wiggins, MS Director - 1199SEIU Home Care Industry Education Fund

http://www.ccphealth.org/covid-19-equity/?mc_cid=2573035412&mc_eid=5b0828c4a4

New Plan for a National Public Service Model Released

wagnerwApril 21, 2020Leave a comment

The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service has released their final report with, "a bold vision and comprehensive plan to strengthen all forms of service to address critical security and domestic needs, invigorate civil society, and strengthen our democracy."

Read on for a link to the full report, as well as links to several virtual town halls being held to discuss the findings and recommendations in the report.

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Call for Stories: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

wagnerwApril 10, 2020Leave a comment

The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health would like to gather stories and resources about how our institutions and community partners are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Submit your stories through this google doc (please answer any questions as you see fit).

CCMA Virtual Discussion: Using Critical Reflection to Support Virtual Community and Civic Engagement

wagnerwApril 10, 2020April 10, 2020Leave a comment

Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic is hosting this Zoom call to share thoughts on using critical reflection to support virtual community and civic engagement, on Thursday, April 16 at 10:00 am.

We recommend you register early, as some of these discussions have reached capacity. Please register for the call here. Once you are registered you’ll receive an email with Zoom call details.

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NSEE Spring Free Webinars for Experiential Educators: Managing through COVID-19

wagnerwApril 7, 2020April 10, 2020Leave a comment

The following was shared with us by the National Society for Experiential Education:

During this global pandemic, institutions are grappling with moving education online, including experiential education. The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) will continue our tradition of offering free professional development webinars and resources to any experiential educators, regardless of membership status with the society.

During this semester, NSEE will provide a series of five free webinars that allow space for crowd-sourcing knowledge: We know that now is that time for us to learn from and plan with one another. Please join us to share your struggles, thoughts, needs, and plans for the future.

Click here for more information and to register: https://www.nsee.org/webinar-series

Topics:

Friday, April 10^th, Noon (EST)
Session 1: Roundtable Discussion with NSEE’s President

Friday, April 17^th, 1 pm (EST)
Session 2: NSEE Conversations - Student Employees

Friday, April 24^th, 2 pm (EST)
Session 3: NSEE Conversations - Using Kolb's Experiential Learning Model to Guide the Design of Online Learning

Friday, May 1^st, 3 pm (EST)
Session 4: NSEE Conversations - Where to Find Experiential Education Next

Global Health & Innovation Conference

AlberoApril 1, 2020November 15, 2022Leave a comment

The upcoming 17th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 4-5, 2020. This is the world’s largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference. The conference will take place at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Register during August for a highly reduced registration rate (50% lower than the regular rate).

Confirmed speakers to date: Learn from more than 200 speakers who are committed to effective, responsible programs in health, development, entrepreneurship, and education. See the confirmed 2020 conference speakers to date.

Call for Abstracts: Abstracts are currently being accepted for research presentations, program presentations, and for the social impact pitch presentations, including submissions for the $10,000 and $5,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. The first abstract deadline is August 31. For those submitting a research or program abstract, October 15th is the final deadline.

Here is the Conference Schedule.

Here is the Application to present.

Here is more information about the Innovation Prize.

Webinar on Participatory Health Research: Corporation for National and Community Service

wagnerwApril 1, 2020April 10, 2020Leave a comment

The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) invites you to join our Research and Evidence webinar series. This webinar series is one of many ways ORE is sharing current research on civic engagement, volunteering, and national service.

This month’s topic is:

Participatory Health Research: Challenges and Approaches

Date and Time: Wednesday, Apr. 8, from 2-3:00 p.m. ET

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Attend the Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work

aemebteMarch 20, 2020April 21, 2020Leave a comment

The Association of American Colleges & Universities will be hosting a conference on Integrative Learning and Signature Work July 21-July 24, 2020 at American University in Washington, DC. The conference is intended for college and university teams interested in advancing programs and curricula aimed at building students’ capacity to integrate their learning across the curriculum and co-curriculum, foster global learning through community engagement, and capture students’ development through signature work. Sessions led by national experts will emphasize the value of leveraging general education, interdisciplinary approaches, and co-curricular experiences to achieve campus goals to expand integrative learning and community engagement.

If you are interested and want to learn more about the event click here.

A Grand Sharing of Resources

wagnerwMarch 17, 2020April 28, 2020Leave a comment

[Updated April 2, 2020]

Please note, in response to the increased calls to commit to physical distancing, we ask that you instruct students to NOT engage in any direct service activities at this time. We are continuing to seek opportunities for distance/online service for your students. I also recommend some of the assignment alternatives provided in the "Teaching distance community engaged scholarship courses" link below.

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Resources: Teaching Distance Community Engaged Scholarship Courses

wagnerwMarch 17, 2020April 16, 2020Leave a comment

[Updated March 29, 2020]

We will continue to update this post with additional resources. If you have assignment alternatives or approaches, tips on facilitating reflection conversations through distance learning, or plans for continuing to support your community partner remotely, please share them (wagnerw@gwu.edu) and they will be added to these resource lists.

While we all recognize it is much better to have time for proper distance-learning course design, teaching a community engaged scholarship course from a distance CAN be done. Recognizing that some of our community partner organizations will be closing or restricting voluntary service in order to practice physical distancing, we recommend providing 1-2 alternative assignments for students who will still have service requirements to fulfill for your course.

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GW Joins the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities

wagnerwFebruary 21, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

GW recently joined the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. This organization, "connects leaders and scholars of urban and metropolitan universities to share, discuss, and debate important issues facing our unique institutions and the cities we serve."

The association distributes relevant news, facilitates conversations across member institutions, holds an annual conference, and publishes a journal.

Stay tuned for more information on the connections and professional development benefits you can take advantage of given our institutional membership.

Talk on DC Gentrification: Friday, Feb 21

wagnerwFebruary 18, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

You are invited to attend the following talk:

The Violence of Dis/Investment: White Flight, Black Displacement and Gentrification in Washington, DC

Friday, Feb 21, noon-1:30pm, Corcoran Hall, Room 103
Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociologist, University of California, Merced

go.gwu.edu/mwwir

Place Based Service-Learning: Summer Institutes for Faculty

wagnerwFebruary 15, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

The Community Works Institute announces early bird rates for their 2020 Summer Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability.

June 22-26, 2020, Brooklyn, NY

Provided description:

Who Should Attend
Institute participants are diverse and inspiring K-16 teachers and leaders, from schools large and small, rural and urban, independent and public, along with environmental and community based educators. The Institute is the ideal opportunity for individual educators or teams to begin or advance projects and programs, within classrooms or across grade levels.

2020 CWI Summer Institute Outcomes

participants will learn new skills and strategies that build capacity for
• The community as the classroom.
• Designing projects around students’ personal passion and interests.
• Connecting social emotional learning goals to learning projects.
• Designing project based learning with compelling civic and public purpose.
• Focusing on students as active contributors to sustainable communities.
• Integrating student voice, reciprocity, and reflection.
• Using ethnography to explore human connection and and social justice.
• Employing strategies for program growth, team building, and buy in.
• Inspiring and advancing a collective vision and practice as a leaders.

Medical Faculty Development Post-doctoral Research Awards for Addressing Health Disparities

wagnerwFebruary 10, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

Please see this announcement from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2020 Call for Applications. The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. Scholars should be committed to working toward eliminating health disparities by achieving senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing.

The program provides scholars with:

development of research, academic, and leadership skills;
ongoing mentoring by a distinguished national advisory committee;
a grounding in the social determinants of health, health equity, and the elements of a Culture of Health.

In this grant cycle, RWJF will fund up to 10 four-year awards of up to $420,000 each. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each, complemented by a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities.

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Engagement Scholarship Consortium

wagnerwFebruary 5, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

This year's Engagement Scholarship Consortium annual conference will be nearby in Philadelphia, September 13-14, 2020. As a pre-conference event, the Consortium will be hosting a one-day intensive professional development program for early career faculty on community engagement. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2020. https://engagementscholarship.org/networks-partnerships/esc-partnerships/emerging-engagement-scholars-workshop

If you have an interest in attending, please contact Wendy Wagner, wagnerw@gwu.edu to discuss potential financial support from the Nashman Center.