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Published on Leave a comment on IJRSLCE Call for Papers on Service Learning and Community Engagement

Paper Proposals due May 15th!

IJRSLCE Editorial Board has released a request for manuscripts they are seeking submissions, conveying the extent of scholarship in the field of service-learning and community engagement that represent a range of methodologies.

Author Guidelines are presented on the IJRSLCE website. To submit a manuscript, you must register on the site. Papers are due May 15, 2019. For more details and information, please email Glenn Bowwn (gbowen@barry.edu) and Clayton Hurd (churd@compact.org).

Published on Leave a comment on Chavez, Huerta, Itliong (CHI) day events are fast approaching!

Thursday and Friday, March 28th and 29th on the third floor of the Marvin Center is the fourth annual GW Chavez, Huerta, and Itliong Day, offering opportunities for faculty & students!

Chaves Huerta Itliong (CHI) day members are working diligently to raise awareness about Cesar Chaves, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and the farmworkers movement at GWU - delving into the principals and influence of each person while advocating for the social justice issues that impact our society. If you would like to get involved email cesarchavezgw@gmail.com.

Submit a photo of your work or a working concept to the exhibition in Marvin Center on March 28th - 29th. Your submission(s) will be displayed as a part of the annual celebration of CHI. For details, questions, and submissions, contact Katie Loos and Grace Fisher: katieloos@gwu.edu, gracefisher@gwu.edu.

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Published on Leave a comment on Call for Undergraduate Papers at the IUJSL

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An exciting new opportunity for undergraduates to be published in a peer-reviewed journal is available! The International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change (IUJSL), which is dedicated to providing undergraduate students a venue to discuss their service-learning projects and experiences, has issued a call for papers by undergraduate students.

The journal considers 3 types of articles:

  1. Articles that discuss the development of a service-learning project and the impact of the project on the community served
  2. A case study of a service learning project
  3. A reflection on service-learning and the development of personal leadership

Each article will be reviewed by selected readers and the member of the editorial board.  Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced, excluding block quotations which should be typed single-spaced, and references.  To ensure anonymity, author’s names and affiliation should appear on a separate cover page.  Articles should not exceed 15 pages.  Authors should follow APA format.

Submissions should be sent in Word format. Do not add headers or page numbers. Submissions can be sent by email to: Ned Scott Laff, Ph.D. (ned.laff@gmail).

This is a great opportunity for undergraduates, so be sure to share with service-learning students!

Published on Leave a comment on IJRSLCE: New Issue and Call for Submissions

The latest issue of the International Journal for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE) is available online here.

Call for manuscripts for Issue 7 (2019) of the journal the Editorial Board is seeking submissions that reflect the breadth of scholarship in the service-learning and community engagement field, with articles from different countries and disciplines and representing a range of methodologies. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2019.

The five sections of the journal are as follows: (1) Advances in Theory and Methodology; (2) Student Outcomes - Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education; (3) Faculty Roles and Institutional Issues; (4) Community Partnerships and Impacts; and (5) International Service-Learning and Community Engagement Research.

The Author Guidelines are available on the IJRSLCE website; submissions will be managed by ScholasticaHQ. To submit a manuscript, registration on the site is required. For additional information, please contact the editors - Glenn Bowen and Clayton Hurd. They look forward to hearing from you.

Published on Leave a comment on Save the Date, Oct 18-20: Imagining America National Gathering
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If you are interested in joining a transdisciplinary team of faculty from GW at this event, please contact Wendy Wagner, wagnerw@gwu.edu.

Link here for event information.

“The Imagining America Gathering is an annual convening of public scholars, artists, students, designers, and cultural organizers who are addressing the nation’s most critical issues. The conference offers participants a three-day immersive experience in which to connect, dialogue, learn, and strategize around the ways in which the arts, humanities, and design build public knowledge and collective imagination towards transformative action. Organizers expect more than 500 individuals to attend this year’s gathering.”

Published on Leave a comment on William and Mary Active Citizens Conference Call For Proposals Open: Deadline 2/20/19

Do you have students from Community Engaged Scholarship Courses with presentations to share?

Registrations and workshop proposals for the 2019 Active Citizens Conference are now being accepted. This is a student-focused conference for educating, uniting, and inspiring active citizenship. The conference is close enough to make transportation costs low and will be held Saturday, March 23 at William & Mary.

The conference seeks 50 minute workshop proposals from students, faculty, staff, and community members alike. You can review previous conference guides for further context. Proposals will be due by February 20.

Registration is open until March 13 and is $60 for students. 

We hope to see some GWU students and faculty represented at the conference-a great opportunity to share your community engaged scholarship!

Published on Leave a comment on Call for Proposals Due March 15, 2019- Are you ready to present?

Calling all faculty and students who are finishing Community Engaged Scholarship classes or have new research to present as a result of past courses and projects-Colorado State University has a call for proposals for their “Deepening our Roots: Advancing Community Engagement in High Education Conference” see video for more information!

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Published on Leave a comment on Democracy, Call for Abstracts & New Book, “Jumping into Civic Life: Stories of Public Work from Extension Professionals”

Imagining America’s Newsletter has some great content this month:

Looking for a short read to motivate your civic thinking for the next semester?

Check out Democracy Under Siege: A Category 4 Storm https://www.aacu.org/aacu-news/newsletter/2018/november/perspectives

How about a longer read for over break? Check out "Jumping into Civic Life: Stories of Public Work from Extension Professionals"

Edited by Scott J. Peters (former IA faculty co-director), Theodore R. Alter, and Timothy J. Shaffer. Through eight richly-detailed oral histories, this book helps to open our imagination to the possibilities for professionals to make constructive contributions to the task of making democracy work as it should. The first-hand stories of public work in these oral histories are told by professionals from six different states who either chose or were invited to jump into civic life as active participants. Kettering Foundation Press

Ready to share new Community Engaged Scholarship class next semester? Call for Abstracts: 2019 Community Development Education Symposium -Funding is Available!

The consortium invites Imagining America members who teach community development courses to submit an abstract proposal for the 2019 Community Development Education Symposium that will take place in Detroit, MI, from May 16th-19th. The symposium will convene educators to discuss innovative curricula and educational practices, while exploring the current and future state of community development education.

A limited number of travel stipends will be made available to individuals that are accepted to participate in the symposium. For more information regarding participation please click the link, here.

In addition, individuals participating in the symposium will also be eligible to apply for one of five community development innovation mini-grants (approximately $5,000/grant).

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Published on Leave a comment on Next Steps for Students

As we near the end of another semester, our students often need help identifying their next steps, given the significant learning experience they have had. Below are a few suggestions to forward to them.

Published on Leave a comment on Encourage Undergraduates to Submit Papers for Publication

Recently circulated on the Service-Learning in Higher Education Listserv:

The International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership and Social Change has a call for papers.  You can view the Journal at http://opus.govst.edu/iujsl/

The Journal is dedicated to providing undergraduate students a venue to discuss their service-learning projects and experiences.

The Journal considers three types of articles:

1) Articles that discuss the development of a service-learning project and the

impact of the project on the community served;

2) A case study of a service-learning project;

3) A reflection on service-learning and the development of personal leadership.

Each article will be reviewed by selected readers and the member of the editorial board.  Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced, excluding block quotations which should be typed single-spaced, and references.  To ensure anonymity, author’s names and affiliation should appear on a separate cover page.  Articles should not exceed 15 pages.  Authors should follow APA format.

Submissions should be sent in Word format.  DO NOT HAVE HEADERS OR PAGE NUMBERING.

Submit by e-mail to:

Ned Scott Laff, Ph.D.                                  Jamie Opdyke

ned.laff@gmail                                           jopdyke@uoregon.edu

Published on Leave a comment on Call for Proposals: Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference

Campus Compact

The Eastern Region Campus Compact (ERCC) is holding its conference this year March 25-27, 2019, in Providence, Rhode Island. The call for proposals for panel presentations and facilitated workshops requests submissions by Nov 1st.

If you would prefer to co-present at this conference, please contact Wendy Wagner (wagnerw@gwu.edu). We would be happy to facilitate the process of finding faculty interested in presenting together on issues related to community-engaged scholarship at GW.

The ERCC describes this conference as follows

The ERCC conference aims to showcase practices advancing the field of community and civic engagement.  Through a mix of session topics and formats, networking opportunities, and a variety of speakers, ERCC conference participants will explore key topics related to community-engaged scholarship, learning that promotes civic & democratic engagement, and programs and partnerships that enhance both community & campus.

The link to the call for proposals is here:

https://ercc.compact.org/ercc-conference-2019/call-for-proposals/

Published on Leave a comment on Community-Engaged Teaching Presented at GW Teaching Day

GW Teaching Day was last Thursday, Sept 27th and included a set of poster presentations in a “community-engaged teaching” strand.

  •  Erin Wentzell (Physical Therapy) presented, “Go Outside” about her partnership with the National Parks Service and the students in her PT8481 course.
  • David Lee (Biomedical Engineering) and Erin Wentzell presented on their collaboration across courses, with physical therapy students working with the biomedical engineering capstone course to develop solutions to address rehabilitation needs of community members.
  • A team of colleagues from Physician Assistant Studies and Clinical Research and Leadership (Paige McDonald, Howard Straker, Gregory Weaver, Jacqueline Barnett, Debra Herrmann,and Karen Schlumpf) presented, “Connecting the Classroom, Clinicians and Community Clinics for Active Learning.”
  • Tawnya Azar (University Writing) presented on teaching students to create digital content for public dissemination of their work.
  • Wendy Wagner and Colleen Packard presented their study of the civic leadership student learning outcomes of the Civic House Scholars program and related HSSJ 4198 course.

Great work to all involved. 

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Published on Leave a comment on Imagining America has a new StoryShare podcast

IAStoryShare is a project of Imagining America (IA) where publicly engaged artists, designers, scholars, students and other community members share stories about their life and work.

Subscribe here to hear stories from 2017 National Conference. Come to the story booth in Chicago at this year's IA National Gathering for the opportunity to be featured in a future episode.

Published on Leave a comment on Fall Symposium December 7th 2018 12-4:00

Registration is open for Fall Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium (don't forget to add presentations or attendance to your syllabus)

Registration for the Fall Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship is now live!

Click here to register and learn more about the symposium: https://www.gwnashmancenter.org/symposium/

Published on Leave a comment on Medical College of Wisconsin Hosting Community Engaged Scholarship Program September 17-20

Community Engaged Scholars: Immersion Program Applications due Aug. 3rd Health Faculty Encouraged to Apply

Applicants with experience in research interested in being immersed into community engagement should apply for this program. This program spans four days, focusing on the five Social Determinants of Health outlined by Healthy People 2020 (Healthypeople.gov) through a partnership with Silver Spring Neighborhood Center in Milwaukee, a valuable community partner. This program was designed to align the community as teachers to researchers interested in learning how to become effective community-engaged professionals. During this experience you will be immersed into the community site programming, learn from the staff about perspectives of community partners in community engagement, and have the opportunity for bi-directional discussions. Space is limited.

September 17th (starting at 2pm) through September 20th, 2018

Program Cost $100

Applicant Criteria

Applicants that align to our program must:

  1. Be a researcher interested in building capacity for community engaged research
  2. Have at least one year of graduate level study
  3. Have a willingness to be culturally humble
  4. Be available for the entire experience from September 17th to September 20th

Apply now: https://www.mcw.edu/Community-Engagement/Immersion-Program.htm

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