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Call for Papers International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership and Social Change

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Did you present your community engaged scholarship for a class? At the symposium? Share your work with the world!

The International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership and Social Change has a call for papers. You can view the Journal athttp://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.

The Journal accepts Book Reviews on service-learning and social change. Book reviews should not exceed 2 pages and include Book Title, Author, and Publisher.

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

Submit by e-mail to: Ned Scott Laff, Ph.D.

ned.laff@gmail.com

Imagining America Arts and Scholars in Public Life: Call for Proposals Due 6/22

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Faculty and students are invited to submit proposals on their research and scholarship.

Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures

Invitation for Proposals
Imagining America 18th National Gathering

Chicago, Illinois | Friday-Sunday, October 19-21, 2018 | #18IAGathering
Submission Deadline: Friday, June 22

We are facing the largest social crisis in modern U.S. history, and it is a crisis that, on some level, affects every one of us. From children to seniors, foreign nationals to U.S. citizens, the United States’ carceral system locks up more than 10 million individuals each year through a vast network of prisons, jails, juvenile correctional facilities, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and state psychiatric centers. This system restricts the lives of nearly 5 million individuals currently on probation or parole, and it destabilizes an exponential number of families and communities. Addressing a crisis of this magnitude requires moving beyond a public discourse limited by preconceptions of what is achievable.
Imagining America believes that the arts, design, and the humanities provide us with tools and practices that can free our imaginations as to what is possible. The 2018 Imagining America National Gathering seeks to bring people together to imagine, explore, and make real a world beyond incarceration and to envision liberatory futures – futures that include worlds where resources invested in carceral economies are directed to housing, health care, and public education.
Drawing on traditions of speculative, utopian, and Afrofuturist inquiry while engaging with transformative work already in progress, Imagining America invites proposals that advance dialogue, research, programs, and advocacy regarding the impacts of carceral systems – both historical and contemporary – on our communities. Proposals need not explicitly address incarceration, but should contribute to a vision of justice motivated by the healing of communities and individuals.
We encourage proposals from currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, people directly impacted by the carceral system, activists, community organizers, artists, designers, students, faculty, and staff from IA member campuses and beyond, and others engaged in liberatory visioning and work. We especially encourage proposals that highlight collaboration, dialogue, community engagement, and creative forms of expression.

This year’s gathering also builds upon current work being done by Illinois Humanities through an initiative called Envisioning Justice (https://envisioningjustice.org). Using the arts and humanities, Envisioning Justice seeks to strengthen efforts in Chicago to reimagine our criminal legal system and is inspired by a commitment to justice, accountability, safety, support, and restoration for all people. Launched in 2017, Envisioning Justice will continue through 2019, thereby providing space for the discussions, works, and imaginings that take place during the gathering to continue.

Imagining America National Conference, Oct 19-21

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Imagining America 2018 National Conference

Link to more info: https://imaginingamerica.org/2018/01/25/imagining-america-2018-national-conference/

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and Illinois Humanities are pleased to announce that Imagining America’s 2018 National Conference will be held October 19-21 in Chicago, Illinois. The two organizations will work with local institutions and leaders in organizing this annual event.

About Imagining America
"A national consortium of colleges, universities, and cultural institutions, Imagining America advances public scholarship, community building, civically engaged learning, and campus change through the bold power of the arts, humanities, and design."

Julian Clement Chase Prize for Undergraduate Writing about DC

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Please encourage your students to submit for this honor. All disciplines welcome, as are collaborative or team projects. The prize is $1,000. Submissions are due May 21, 2018.

For more information: https://writingprogram.gwu.edu/julian-clement-chase-prize

Strong entries will show

Original research demonstrating in-depth engagement with the Washington, DC community.
Clear and effective communication of ideas.
Adherence to the academic standards of a particular field or discipline.

The prize honors Sgt. Julian Clement Chase, 22, a native of Washington DC who was killed in action in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He was set to matriculate at GW in Spring 2013. Julian knew and relished his city. His family has established this prize to recognize others who explore DC with the intelligence and exuberance that he did.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Poster Session

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The University Teaching and Learning Center, in collaboration with the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, has issued an invitation for faculty to propose a poster for the 3rd annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Poster Session to be held during Teaching Day 2018 on September 27.

We strongly encourage faculty using service-learning practices in their courses to review the data on their students' learning experiences and submit!

"SoTL is scholarly inquiry and research into teaching practices; projects can be big or small. Examples of SoTL include, but are not limited to:

Measuring changes in teaching or learning over time
Examining how students understand a particular aspect or concept of a course.
Assessing the effectiveness of a particular assignment, assessment, or pedagogical intervention or approach
Comparing groups of students across a single class or across multiple course experiences.

For more information on SoTL posters, including how to submit your proposal, please visit go.gwu.edu/sotl.

For sample SoTL posters, see last year's contributions to Teaching Day.

For questions about doing SoTL and the Poster Session, contact Professor Maria de la Fuente.

Registration open for 2018 Global EPICS Symposium and Workshop at Purdue

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This is a great opportunity for STEM fields to engage in community engaged scholarship.

Registration

Deadline is May 25, 2018

EPICS is an engineering-based, service-learning approach to multi-disciplinary design where student teams address needs within their local and global communities. Founded at Purdue University, EPICS has been integrated into the curricula at 42 universities and colleges. EPICS in IEEE, a signature program of IEEE, empowers students to work with local service organizations by applying technical knowledge to implement solutions for a community’s unique challenges.

This year’s gathering will bring together three groups for a synergistic set of workshops, panel discussions and roundtables. These three groups are:

New Faculty, instructors; staff professionals; IEEE volunteers and members; industry partners and others interested in learning about the EPICS model for Engineering/Computing-based Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Experienced EPICS leaders, faculty, instructors, administrators, students and partners from the member institutions of the EPICS Consortium
International EPICS leaders, faculty, instructors, administrators, students and partners especially from India including our IUCEE-EPICS institutions

The symposium and workshop have special slots for each group (Monday for those new to EPICS, Thursday and Friday will focus on India). Tuesday and Wednesday will be a mix of interactions between groups with opportunities for discussions around common interests.

How You Benefit

• Gain a better understanding of engineering-based community engagement

• See examples of ways EPICS can be integrated into course curriculum and capstone projects

• Develop the skills to gain institutional support, acquire community and industry sponsors, establish funding models and build a sustainable program

• Gain insights from experienced leaders on how to engage students; identify, create and sustain projects; and conduct student assessments

• Network with established EPICS colleagues as well other interested facility members, industry and community leaders

• Learn how to make connections globally across programs

• Leave the workshop prepared to put what you learned into practice in order to grow, institutionalize or establish an EPICS program at your institution

Workshop Details

Date: June 11-15, 2018

June 11 – for those new to EPICS

(all participants invited to the welcome reception on the evening of the 11th )

June 12-13 – for all participants, sessions led by EPICS faculty from multiple institutions
June 14-15 – focus integrating EPICS into the Indian engineering curriculum and similar models

Where: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Registration Fees:

$200 June 11-13 (includes Tuesday and Wednesday meals and Monday welcome reception)

$400 Full week (June 11-15 and includes Tuesday - Friday meals and Monday welcome reception)

Participants are expected to cover their lodging costs and travel to the workshop. A room block is available on Purdue’s Campus at the Purdue Union Club Hotel from June 11-15.

Questions can be forwarded to

Eric VandeVoorde at +1-765-494-3750 or evandevo@purdue.edu or

Dr. William Oakes at oakes@purdue.edu

https://www.conf.purdue.edu/landing_pages/epicsdesign/

Opportunities from Campus Compact Mid Atlantic

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The Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic (CCMA) is a non-profit membership association of colleges and universities that are public, 2-year and 4-year. They advocate, support, and encourage institutional participation in academic and co-curricular based on public service and civic engagement programs to universities and colleges in Maryland, Washington D.C., and Delaware. Here are some news and updates from the CCMA:

Next, CCMA is searching for two new VISTA leaders! These two leaders will serve as a resource for their VISTA cohort of 30 members, build capacity for their organization, and support VISTA alumni outreach. If you have participated in national service for at least a year and are interested, apply now at: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?id=71785&fromSearch=true

Also, CCMA is officially welcoming Delaware into their network. So, join them for a CCMA Launch in the University of Delaware on Wednesday, April 18. 2018, where discussions about Mobilizing Higher Education’s Ability to Elevate Community Life Through P-20 Partnerships will be held. There will be a panel of CCMA Presidents, followed by an Idea Exchange, CCMA Award, and a Launch Plenary speaker. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/campus-compact-mid-atlantic-launch-welcome-delaware-tickets-42333543769

In addition, there are some opportunities to earn grants for papers and proposals. The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) is inviting departments from colleges and universities in the U.S. to apply for mini-grants. These grants will formalize helping students investigate disciplinary questions in their major through a civic lens. Applications are due by April 23rd, 2018. Click here for more information and to access the application: https://www.aacu.org/civic/mini-grants

Finally, nominations are now open for the CCMA 2017 Awards. Every year, the CCMA recognizes and awards those who have shown excellence in leadership of civic engagement and service-learning in order to promote a culture of engagement throughout the region. There are several awards opportunities, so click here to see their descriptions and to find out how to nominate an individual or a program: https://www.mdccc.org/events/pi/awards.html

So, these are some events and opportunities that the CCMA is offering, and if you are interested to find out more about these kinds of news and events, check out their full website: https://www.mdccc.org/index.html.

Call for Submissions for Public: A Journal of Imagining America

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Public: A Journal of Imagining America has announced a Call for Submissions for their next issue:

Beyond Mass Incarceration:
New Horizons of Liberation and Freedom

"We are currently accepting one-page descriptions for the PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America issue titled: Beyond Mass Incarceration: New Horizons of Liberation and Freedom. Please email proposals to public@imaginingamerica.org. Full submissions are due by May 31st for peer review through our online submission portal at ojs.syr.edu."

View the Call for Submissions

Imagining America is a national organization of artists, humanists, designers and other scholars who are engaged in their communities and in public life. http://imaginingamerica.org

Call for Proposals: Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities

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The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities annual conference will be October 22-24, 2018, in Chicago. The conference allows for many presentation formats and welcomes your proposals until April 23, 2018.

Link here for more information

The Civic Life Project Documentary Contest Deadline April 30th

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This documentary film contest is a great way for students to create a project focusing on one aspect of civic life (perhaps as part of a class project or research that they are doing) and have the opportunity to share their work with a national audience. Details on how to participate in this project can be found at the link below. If your students are presenting at the symposium this deadline is only one day before the symposium-why not document their civically engaged work and have it presented to an audience beyond GW as well?

https://www.civiclifeproject.org/

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Opportunity for Faculty & Undergrads to Present at 2018 Engaged Scholarship & Social Justice Conference

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Faculty this is a great opportunity to share with your undergraduate students and for you as well! Friday, April 6th and Saturday April 7th at Harvard. The 2018 Engaged Scholarship for Social Justice Conference will feature a panel of scholars whose research can serve as exemplars of engaged scholarship (not research on service learning and community engagement) in different disciplines. A discussion on engaged scholarship in the academy will be facilitated by Professor Elizabeth Hinton. The goal is to demonstrate how scholars from different disciplines present engaged or public scholarship.

Information for you and your students is at the link www.essjconference.fas.harvard.edu.

The panel will promote engaged scholarship on campuses while also encouraging young scholars who are interested in issues of equity to explore careers in research. The Friday panel in particular is one way to demonstrate to young scholars that the academy is making space for engaged scholarship, and how different fields and disciplines are involved in public scholarship

Calling for Proposals for the Diversity Summit

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Calling faculty - If you would like to lead a session on the intersection of service-learning and cultural intelligence, review the call for proposals below!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Due 5pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement invites faculty, students, and staff to submit proposals for workshops, panels, poster sessions, and interactive presentations related to the theme, Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at GW. The ODECE welcomes creative proposals that reflect best practices in creating a diverse and inclusive campus environment. Topics related to diversity and inclusion may involve, but are not limited to: race, class, gender, sexuality or orientation, religion, age, (dis)ability, or intersectionality.

All members of the George Washington University community are invited to submit proposals that engage with questions like, but not limited to, the following:

How can our campus better prevent sexual assault and support survivors?
What kinds of cultural inclusion can we enact on campus to better demonstrate our understanding of diversity as including people with disabilities, religious diversity, racial diversity, gender diversity, ethnic and country of origin diversity and language diversity?
How can we move our understanding of disability beyond legal compliance, and create syllabi, assignments, classroom spaces, and social spaces that are accessible to all?
What interfaith work is making strides to connect members of our campus community across their religious beliefs?
What role does economic diversity play on campus?
How can we help students to understand the implicit biases they may hold toward faculty and staff?
What kinds of language can faculty and staff use to better connect with and welcome all students?
How can we better understand the role that sexuality and sexual orientation plays in our daily lives?
How can we be in solidarity with each other without appropriating others' experiences?
How do our lived experiences reflect the intersectional nature of our identities? How can we examine our own attitudes toward bullying and bias?

Panels and presentations will be presented on Wednesday, April 4, 2018.

To submit a proposal, please provide:

1. Title

2. Abstract and description of presentation or poster

3. Biographical information on presenter(s)

4. Audio-visual/Room needs

5. Accessibility needs

Proposals should be submitted electronically via this Google form to the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement no later than 5pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2018.

Notifications will be sent by Friday, February 23, 2018.

Calling for Proposals for the Diversity Summit

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Calling faculty - If you would like to lead a session on the intersection of service-learning and cultural intelligence, review the call for proposals below!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Due 5pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2018.

The Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement invites faculty, students, and staff to submit proposals for workshops, panels, poster sessions, and interactive presentations related to the theme, Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at GW. The ODECE welcomes creative proposals that reflect best practices in creating a diverse and inclusive campus environment. Topics related to diversity and inclusion may involve, but are not limited to: race, class, gender, sexuality or orientation, religion, age, (dis)ability, or intersectionality.

All members of the George Washington University community are invited to submit proposals that engage with questions like, but not limited to, the following:

How can our campus better prevent sexual assault and support survivors?

What kinds of cultural inclusion can we enact on campus to better demonstrate our understanding of diversity as including people with disabilities, religious diversity, racial diversity, gender diversity, ethnic and country of origin diversity and language diversity?

How can we move our understanding of disability beyond legal compliance, and create syllabi, assignments, classroom spaces, and social spaces that are accessible to all?

What interfaith work is making strides to connect members of our campus community across their religious beliefs?

What role does economic diversity play on campus?

How can we help students to understand the implicit biases they may hold toward faculty and staff?

What kinds of language can faculty and staff use to better connect with and welcome all students?

How can we better understand the role that sexuality and sexual orientation plays in our daily lives?

How can we be in solidarity with each other without appropriating others' experiences?

How do our lived experiences reflect the intersectional nature of our identities? How can we examine our own attitudes toward bullying and bias?

Panels and presentations will be presented on Wednesday, April 4, 2018.

To submit a proposal, please provide:

1.      Title

2.      Abstract and description of presentation or poster

3.      Biographical information on presenter(s)

4.      Audio-visual/Room needs

5.      Accessibility needs

Proposals should be submitted electronically via this Google form to the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement no later than 5pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2018.

Notifications will be sent by Friday, February 23, 2018.

If you have any questions during the application process, please email the Diversity Summit Committee at gwudiversitysummit@gwu.edu or call (202) 994-7434.

Apply for the Knapp Fellowship for Entreprenuerial Service-Learning!

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The deadline for the prestigious Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning is this Friday, January 12, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. Apply be e-mailing the application (which can be found here) to gwserves@gwu.edu.

Check out our detailed interviews with last year's fellows, Chloe King and Gayatri Malhotra. Chloe is working with the World Wildlife Fund to reduce food waste in D.C. schools and Gayatri is working with Teach for India and Girl Rising on a gender sensitization curriculum in New Delhi.

The award will recognize one or more innovative proposals each year and will provide support for their implementation. Up to $10,000 will be awarded each academic year.

Undergraduate and graduate students with one more semester may apply independently or with a group of students to design and create solutions that will make a significant difference in the lives of others.

Awardees must work with the support and guidance of a faculty member on their research and action projects.

Students who apply should demonstrate knowledge and innovative thinking about the issue or problem to be addressed. Selection is at the discretion of the Provost, who reviews recommendations made by a committee of faculty and representatives from the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Once chosen, fellows work throughout the project with a faculty advisor who guides research on the issue, implementation of the proposal, ongoing reports and assessments, and a final work of scholarship.

For more information, email Dr. Wendy Wagner at wagnerw@gwu.edu or Rachel Talbert at rachellt@gwu.edu.

Submit Posters for the Diversity Summit!

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April 3-4, 2018
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement invites faculty, students, and staff to submit proposals for workshops, panels, poster sessions, and interactive presentations related to the theme, Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at GW. The ODECE welcomes creative proposals that reflect best practices in creating a diverse and inclusive campus environment. Topics related to diversity and inclusion may involve, but are not limited to: race, class, gender, sexuality or orientation, religion, age, (dis)ability, or intersectionality.

All members of the George Washington University community are invited to submit proposals that engage with questions like, but not limited to, the following:

How can our campus better prevent sexual assault and support survivors?
What kinds of cultural inclusion can we enact on campus to better demonstrate our understanding of diversity as including people with disabilities, religious diversity, racial diversity, gender diversity, ethnic and country of origin diversity and language diversity?
How can we move our understanding of disability beyond legal compliance, and create syllabi, assignments, classroom spaces, and social spaces that are accessible to all?
What interfaith work is making strides to connect members of our campus community across their religious beliefs?
What role does economic diversity play on campus?
How can we help students to understand the implicit biases they may hold toward faculty and staff?
What kinds of language can faculty and staff use to better connect with and welcome all students?
How can we better understand the role that sexuality and sexual orientation plays in our daily lives?
How can we be in solidarity with each other without appropriating others' experiences?
How do our lived experiences reflect the intersectional nature of our identities? How can we examine our own attitudes toward bullying and bias?

Panels and presentations will be presented on Wednesday, April 4, 2018.

To submit a proposal, please provide:

1. Title

2. Abstract and description of presentation or poster

3. Biographical information on presenter(s)

4. Audio-visual/Room needs

5. Accessibility needs

Proposals should be submitted electronically via this Google form to the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement no later than 5pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2018.

Notifications will be sent by Friday, February 23, 2018.

If you have any questions during the application process, please email the Diversity Summit Committee at gwudiversitysummit@gwu.edu or call (202) 994-7434.