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The Up to Us Campus Competiton aims to empower students to create meaningful impact in their community through this leadership experience. Applications are due Friday, February 5, 2021. ...continue reading "Application Deadline: Up to Us Campus Competition – Feb 5"

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. 

Register for the Global Health & Innovation Conference
by August 31 for 50% off the registration rate.  

 Here is the Conference Schedule. 

Here is the Application to present. 

Here is more information about the Innovation Prize. 

This week we discussed plans for our courses and for supporting students in the weeks following November 3rd. Including the following:

Preparing for class on November 4th

Many of us experienced class after the 2016 elections and felt that expecting to cover course content on Nov 4th is unwise. Several of us wished we had instead prepared an activity to facilitate reflection and help students think about self-care. The Nashman Center’s Will Brummett developed this document to help facilitate just this kind of activity. All are welcome to use and adapt it to their own context.  Personal Post-Election Preparedness Reflection Exercise document

The following post was written by Will Brummett, Program Manager of Co-Curricular Service in the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Join the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design October 14, from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT to learn from Visiting Professor of Community Engagement Paul Rucker, a visual artist, composer and musician who often combines media as he integrates live performance, sound, original compositions and visual art.

These resources were shared at today's Weekly Check-in for Instructors of Community Engaged Scholarship Courses (Fridays, noon-1pm, https://gwu.webex.com/meet/wagnerw)

Tricia Arnold, from GW's Instructional Design Core, was a featured guest for today's meeting, where she shared a Blackboard Course Template, which we are all welcome to use in future courses. The template pre-populates a Blackboard course with resources for students. Up for future conversation: if there is interest, Tricia would help us to add modules to this template unique to Community Engaged Scholarship courses.

The recorded presentation and the zip-file with the Blackboard template itself are available in the Nashman Center's Teaching Resources Box Folder.

See you next time!

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Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow, Community Health Psychologist, Assistant Professor of Writing, and Affiliate Faculty Member of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, was recently quoted in the NY Times and Mashable. To learn more about Dr. Barlow's recent and ongoing work, please click here. ...continue reading "Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow in the NY Times and Mashable"

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Cleary, selected as the 2020 Nashman Center Community Engaged Faculty of the Year.

Dr. Cleary has over ten years of experience in community engaged scholarship, including teaching and research. For example, through the Adelante Center, he and other GW faculty and students worked with recently arrived immigrants from Central America. This included youth development programs as well as programs that helped parents find resources and develop a supportive network among themselves.

Cleary's more recent work has involved partnership with a community of young autistics and their families and caregivers.

...continue reading "Nashman Community Engaged Faculty of the Year: Dr. Sean Cleary"

In case you missed it, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently published this article, 15 Ways Colleges Are Mobilizing to Support Their Communities.

"As the pandemic has closed campuses, forcing higher education to reinvent itself, many colleges are also meeting this unprecedented moment with a renewed sense of purpose about their role in the community...."

Our regional Campus Compact association, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic is hosting a series of facilitated virtual discussions for faculty and staff. These are great opportunities to share what you are doing and learn from others in our area (DC, Maryland, Delaware).

Thursday, May 14th, 11am: How are you supporting your nonprofit partners in capacity building?

To register and view other upcoming CCMA events: https://midatlantic.compact.org/events/