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Each year HumanitiesDC awards about $1 million dollars to DC residents, groups and organizations through a series of community grant opportunities to support exciting public humanities endeavors that bring people together to explore the history, culture, relationships and topics that shape our city’s communities.

"This cycle we are offering $25,000 in grants for Capacity Building which helps humanities-based non-profit organizations strengthen their ability to advance their missions, as well as $25,000 in grants for youth-powered programming for ages 11-24 that uses the humanities as tools to explore critical questions about the world around them. Applications are due by 5:59 PM, May 1, 2024."

For more information on Cycle II grants, click on our grantmaking page.

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"For the Winter 2024 issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal, we are delighted to feature an article from Kerri Shelton from Columbus State University in Georgia, who reports on work done by a team of undergraduate researchers (chemistry and nursing majors) who worked to analyze 20th-century medical kits at the Columbus Museum.

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National Center for Science and Civic Education (NCSCE) and Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) will be focusing on education and research on the critical civic challenge of water.  Floods, droughts, toxins, pollution, sea level rise--all threaten human health and well-being.  Indigenous people have always known that "Water is Life," and the use, misuse and waste of water is an existential matter for all humans.  Current projects focus on building water literacy and the water workforce, and supporting wastewater research in the US and abroad to identify and track emerging disease outbreaks.  A recent presentation of NCSCE Global Water Fellows project is here:  Water: The Wickedest Problem

 

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Join Campus Compact and the American Association of Colleges and Universities in the effort to better the strategies used to increase student civic engagement. They will be creating teams to audit the strategies that have already been in place as a means to creating new and improved ones. The info session for this program will be held on March 27,2024 at 2:30 pm. Click here to learn more.

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Join Campus Compact in a virtual panel discussion with the authors published in the latest issue of the MJCSL. The discussion will cover the origins of the core commitments and building blocks of civic identity. This event will take place Thursday March 28, 2024 from 3:00-4:30. Click here to learn more.

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ORGANIZING CULTURE CHANGE: PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP DIALOGUE AND REFLECTION TOOLS. AN IMAGINING AMERICA TEACHING AND LEARNING CIRCLE WEBINAR

Tuesday April 30, 2024 | 4:00-5:30pm ET 

For more information and to register.  Full description below.

"This Imagining America Teaching and Learning Circle webinar is open to all and will engage IA’s newest tools: the Public Scholar Conversation Cards and the Public Scholar Imagination Guide....

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Click here to read the latest publication of Metropolitan Universities Journal. This issue is on Productive Tensions and Uncomfortable Conversations.

Links to each article in the issue are below:

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Do you have questions about the session proposal process? Join the CUMU team to learn more about the CUMU Conference and ask your questions about becoming a conference presenter in advance of the April 3 submission deadline.

https://www.cumuonline.org/cumu-annual-conference/call-for-proposals/?mc_cid=8fbef0fb91&mc_eid=76636730df

CUMU Conference Proposal Open Office Hours

Wednesday, March 20, 2 p.m. ET, Zoom

RSVP FOR THIS INFORMAL SESSION

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Engineering Projects In Community Service in IEEE is calling for proposals for service learning projects around addressing the technological needs of communities around the world. EPIC in IEEE is partnering with the Industry Application Society in this project to support service learning initiatives. The deadline is May 1,2024. Click here to learn more and apply.

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Join former head of SMPA and Emmy Award winning journalist Frank Sesno in a workshop where participants will learn how to bring their venture idea to life and use the power of storytelling to expand their reach. This event will take place Thursday March 7th, 2024 from 12:00-1:30. Please encourage students to attend as well. Click here to register.

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Join Campus Compact on a faculty centered conversation to explore leading innovative civic learning programs in engaged scholarship and teaching. Panelists will share practical examples and advice on integrating civic learning into their teaching, research, and community engagement activities. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the concepts further in smaller breakout groups. This conversation will be held on Friday, March 15, 2024, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Eastern. Click here to register and learn more. 

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Join the Campus Compact team and student panelists in a conversation about civic learning programs on their perspective campuses and their roles in these programs. The panel will feature GW’s own Dasia Bandy who is a Newman Civic Fellow. The panel will discuss the changes they are currently making and the changes they would like to see in the future. The panel will take place March 12th, 2024 from 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Eastern. Click here to learn more and register. 

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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

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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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Join the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in a four-part web series to explore contemporary and cutting edge approaches to community-engaged research. Learn about youth participatory action research, data literacy and quantitative analysis of big data, trends and gaps in community-engaged dissertation research, and Carnegie Co-Labs. Sessions will include interactive conversations, as well as dynamic presentations by scholars in the field. Click here to learn more and register. 

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