Check out this article in GW Today about senior Sahas Srinivasan who did great volunteer work with the Capitol Hill Village Sidewalk Safety Team to help improve pedestrian safety. Click here to read more.
Category: Resources & Good Reads
Articles, new toolkits or other resources related to CES.
Webinar Feb 5: Promising P&T Reforms for Societally-Impactful Research
Webinar is February 5, 2024, 2pm, Register here
This webinar will explore findings from a new white paper from the Pew Charitable Trusts that scans promising reforms to faculty reward systems to recognize a wider range of scholarly contributions in promotion and tenure decisions. The project was commissioned by participants in the Transforming Evidence Funders Network (TEFN), facilitated by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Good Read: Pew White Paper on Faculty Rewards for Public Scholarship
There is always more evidence that community engaged scholarship is valuable. This study from the Pew Charitable Trusts reports that higher education is increasingly rewarding faculty for this work as well.
Universities Take Promising Steps to Reward Research that Benefits Society
The paper provides cases from 13 universities and 10 higher education organizations that offer faculty incentives and benefits (mainly through tenure and promotion policies) for scholarship that has public benefit.
Congrats to Jameta Barlow on her Latest Book: Launch Event on 12/16
Congratulations to Jameta Barlow (CCAS, University Writing program) on the announcement of her new edited book, Writing Blackgirls' and women's health: Implications for research and praxis. The book also features a chapter authored by Nashman Affiliate Faculty, Maranda Ward (SMHS).
RSVP for the virtual book launch on Saturday, December 16 at 12pm:
Purchase the book at the publisher's site. Or, consider supporting a local Black owned, woman owned independent book store (bookshop.org). The book is also available on other platforms like Barnes & Nobles or Amazon.
Read on for a description and the table of contents:
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Save the Date: Promotion and Tenure Webinar
Promising P&T Reforms for Societally-Impactful Research: Strategies and Opportunities, February 5th 2024, 1pm EST. Register here.
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Resources and Good Reads: New Book, Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education
Reframing Community Engagement In Higher Education addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Check it out here.
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Student Projects and Reflections: Corcoran Student and GWupstart Grantee Shawn Shafner Story in WAMU
GWUpstart grantee and Corcoran School of the Arts student Shawn Shafner recently had a story on his work on acorns' role in nature and as a source of nourishment in WAMU. Check out the story here.
Resources and Good Reads: Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships Handbooks
After years of curriculum development and writing time, we are excited to announce the release of: Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships: A Handbook, (by Elizabeth A. Tryon, Haley C. Madden, and Cory Sprinkel; Temple University Press). From their press release: “[…the book] provides a wealth of valuable resources and activities to help impart ideas of identity, privilege, oppression, bias, and power dynamics to support students and community in these relationships. Believing that authenticity only comes about in an atmosphere of mutual respect and self-awareness, the authors argue for cultural and intellectual humility.”
Good Read: Institutional Support for Community Engaged Research
New from Metropolitan Universities Journal
Vol. 34 No. 5 (2023): Developing and Sustaining Institutional Support for Community-Engaged Research
Guest editors: Emily Zimmerman, Ph.D., and Sarah Raskin, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Community-engaged research is a critical component of the community engagement landscape, as well as broadening the research enterprise at urban campuses to include communities. Creating the essential infrastructure to support this work requires new ways of thinking about the role of institutions and interdisciplinary programs in community engagement, research development, and research support. Applying the models and frameworks in this issue can provide approaches for campuses to strengthen and commit to community-engaged research in strategic ways.
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Resources and Good Reads: Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Publications on Incorporating CES in Promotion and Tenure
The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning has two recent publications on incorporating community engaged scholarship in promotion and tenure. These are excellent reads by leaders in this movement. Read the abstracts and access them below.
The Nashman Center’s Top CBPR Resources
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is, “a partnership approach to research that equitably involves community members, organizational representatives, and academic researchers in all aspects of the research process. It enables all partners to contribute their expertise, with shared responsibility and ownership; it enhances the understanding of a given phenomenon; and, it integrates the knowledge gained with action to improve the health and well-being of community members, such as through interventions and policy change” (Israel, Schulz, Parker, and Becker, 1998).
The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service supports CBPR through faculty mini-grants, student research prizes, and professional development programs like Faculty Learning Communities (FLC).
This collection of resources is the outcome of the 2022 FLC on CBPR in Health and the 2019 FLC on CBPR Basics.
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Good Reads: Metropolitan Universities Journal: Volume 34 Number 4
The latest issue of Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ), Vol. 34 No. 4 (2023) is now available online. Articles in this issue: ...continue reading "Good Reads: Metropolitan Universities Journal: Volume 34 Number 4"
Book Launch Event: Anti-Racist Community Engagement
Join Campus Compact for a book launch event
Thursday, Sept 21, 3-4:15pm
Register here
Join us for the launch of a significant book that tackles the critical issue of community engagement in higher education. Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices is a thought-provoking publication that focuses on the community-engaged traditions that BIPOC academics and community members have created through more than a century of collaboration across university and community.
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TRUCEN Fall 2023 Network Meeting: The Role of Civic & Community Engagement in our Cities
All faculty, staff, and students from The Research University Civic Engagement Network (GW is a member) are encouraged to attend.
Guided by his recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, Davarian L. Baldwin will lead us in conversation about how the higher education model of civic and community engagement has and (in many cases) hasn’t served its mission to address systemic inequities.
Good Reads & Resources: AAC&U Publication and Webinar Recording on “Making the Case for Open Educational Resources”
The AAC&U has released its newest publication, "Making the Case for Open Educational Resources". As the title suggests, Making the Case for Open Educational Resources is designed to assist OER advocates in their work to craft persuasive presentations, publications, and arguments as they promote OER adoption. The AAC&U also recently hosted a webinar on the topic; watch the recording here.
