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Category: Community Engaged Teaching

Resources for CES courses, examples of courses at GW (course reports, etc.)

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It's been a year since the Kennedy Center reached out to GW to help create an innovative art piece for RiverRun, a festival celebrating the world’s rivers, and Tara Scully looks to "reshape" more waters."The Shape of Water" now stands in the Elliott School of International Affairs. (Lily Speredelozzi/GW Today)

Photograph by Lily Speredelozzi | GW Today

A Kennedy Center costume and set designer Celia Ledón combined forces with GW's Innovation Center, Tara Scully — the Director of the Sustainability Minor Program and an Assistant Professor of Biology at GW — and her students to better understand what kind of trash is left behind around D.C.

...continue reading "Reinventing plastics: Professor Scully teams up with the Kennedy Center to reduce waste"

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Achieving Transformational Change in Promotion and Tenure Policies for Community-Engaged Scholarship, featuring Dr. Andy Furco, Dr. Jennifer Yee, and Dr. David Donahue.  Sponsored by LEAD California, Collaboratory, and NC Campus Engagement.

Webinar recording available at the LEAD California Channel, along with previous webinars from their series on Promotion and Tenure. 

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GW is a member of The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN). It is an excellent way to connect with other faculty who work in institutions similar to ours.
TRUCEN has announced their Sustained Conversation Groups for AY 24-25. Consider your options and register here by May 15. These conversation groups will launch in June.
Note GW's own Maranda Ward will continue to facilitate her conversation group on equity-focused community -based research!

...continue reading "Sign up for TRUCEN Sustained Conversations"

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Fran Buntman (Sociology) and Wendy Wagner (Nashman Center) have been selected for the Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholars program (hosted by Clemson University and supported through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). They will spend the coming year engaged in nation-wide Faculty Learning Communities, attend an institute and several convenings, and will ultimately create and disseminate educational materials on civic and voting rights education. These include in-class learning activities, as well as syllabi that bring issues of civic engagement and voting rights into the classroom. 

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Each semester the Nashman Center hosts a special session of the University Writing Program's University Writing and Research Conference. At the conference, UW 1020 students from the previous semester (nominated by a faculty member), share their research and writing experiences with an audience. The Nashman Center's session features students whose work also involved engagement in the community.

The panel, held February 29, 5-6pm, was moderated by Wendy Wagner, Director of Community Engaged Scholarship at the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Student Panelists:

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Our colleagues at Cornell have invited other institutions to attend this conversation. Please rsvp at the link to get the zoom.

Transformative Co-Creation: Epistemologies and Strategies for Collaborative Writing with Community Partners

Dr. Rachael Shah, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Date: Wednesday, February 28, 12:00 PM, 

RSVP here

...continue reading "Join Talk on “Transformative Co-Creation” Feb 28"

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The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) released a statement on community engaged scholarship. The statement advises on the various components of community engaged scholarship. Click here to read the full statement. Thank you to Dr. Ryder for passing along this information.

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Project Pericles is accepting applications for their Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship. Fellows will receive a $1,000 grant to use Periclean Civic Engagement Resources in the humanities for Spring- Fall 2024. These modules help educate students about voter suppression and bridge the gap between academic content and the real world. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.

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The Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars program provides a space for teachers to create curriculums that for the American democracy. Teachers will be working with professionals from different areas of study from all around the nation to create course materials. This is a compensated opportunity. Apply by February 15th, 2024. Click here to apply and for more information

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The Community-Based Global Learning Summit will be held on Nov 8 - 10, 2024 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA. Each CBGL Summit is geared to stimulating conversations about improving community engagement. This conversation is held with students, faculty, and community partners. The theme of the summit is Collaboration for a Better World: Global Learning, Hope, and Justice. The proposal deadline is midnight EDT on Monday, March 18, 2024. Click here to learn more and submit a proposal. 

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We kicked off a new semester with a wine and cheese networking event for the continuing Conversations on Community Engaged Scholarship series. Maranda Ward (SMHS) facilitated a fact-filled and data-driven discussion about our city. Ward emphasized not just recent data on health and wellbeing disparities but also highlighted the assets and strengths throughout the city.

Wednesday, Jan 24, 4-5pm
University Student Center, Room #405

Dr. Maranda C. Ward is an Assistant Professor and Director of Equity in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In this role, she designs, evaluates, and teaches health equity curriculum for student and faculty learners.

Ward describes herself as a community educator, curriculum developer, and youth builder. She has strong commitments to service-learning, equity, community legacy, youth development, and honoring youth voice.

Dr. Ward is an expert in advancing anti-racism efforts within health professions education and in designing curricula to enable students and faculty to competently promote health and racial equity in practice. Her research focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and antiracism educational interventions as well as stakeholder-engaged community-focused studies on HIV, Black women's health, and youth identity. She is also skilled in the application of participatory action research methods.

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Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis
January 16, 2024 | 11:00 am–12:30 pm EST

Register here

Join this webinar that will highlight multi-disciplinary research on what works in civic education, with a dialogue on re-orienting teaching and learning toward meaningful civic outcomes.

...continue reading "Webinar Jan 16: Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis"

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Several GW faculty have attended this Institute and found it valuable.

The Spring '24 Institute on Teaching Social Action will be held at Rhodes College in Memphis on March 9-10, 2024. They will also have two virtual Institutes scheduled, as well as a Fall '24 Institute at the University of Michigan. Applications are due on Friday, February 23. Apply for the Spring '24 Institute.

These cost-free Institutes are designed to give faculty and staff the knowledge and

...continue reading "Spring 2024 Institute on Teaching Social Action"

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The Petey Greene Program, a GW community partner that supports the academic goals of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through high-quality volunteer tutoring programs, is in search of volunteer instructors who are professors or graduate students in the humanities to their Spring 2024. If you are interested in the opportunity please email sfiorella@peteygreene.org as well as fill out our instructor application.

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Dr. Erica Walls is Interim Director of GW's Human Services & Social Justice program (CCAS). Students in her courses complete projects in partnership with local nonprofit organizations.

In her course on Program Planning and Evaluation, students learn to gather and analyze data through interviews, surveys, and focus groups to inform practice. In her Social Justice and Public Policy course co-create a project with a community partner, such as collecting testimony for advocacy, tracking the progress of legislative initiatives, or managing public awareness social media campaigns. 

Students like the opportunity to apply the concrete skills that are important to this work, but just as important is having the opportunity to pursue their passions, learn who they are and who they want to be in this world. - Erica Walls

 

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