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2020 Diversity Summit: Nov 11-13

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The Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement has reimagined and envisioned the 2020 Diversity Summit to meet the current moment and needs of the GW Community in a virtual environment. The 6th Annual Diversity Summit - Past. Present. Future. What will our legacy be? will take place virtually across three days this year -- November 11th, 12th, and 13th.

Registration information and the schedule for the 6th Annual Diversity Summit - Past. Present. Future. What will our legacy be? are forthcoming. Members of the GW community are encouraged to follow them on social media @InclusionatGW and visit their website diversity.gwu.edu for ongoing updates.

Digital Storytelling for Student Reflection Assignments

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This week, the Nashman Faculty Weekly Check-in meeting featured guest speaker Ben Horn, an Instructional Technologist from the CREATE Digital Studio, of GW's Libraries and Academic Innovation. Ben provided an overview of the applications available to GW faculty and students in Adobe Creative Cloud. These applications make it easy to create digital media content like digital stories and videos. Given this overview, I thought I'd share some of the resources available on using digital storytelling for service-learning/community engaged scholarship reflection assignments.

Upcoming programs, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic

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Lessons Learned: GWU and SummerTREK Virtual Mentoring Project, Tuesday, October 6 at 11:00 AM ET. Register Here

Social Action Course Development Program

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The Bonner Foundation and Scott Myers-Lipton, a Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University, will offer a series of training and support resources designed to grow the number of faculty and staff who integrate social action into an academic course or a co-curricular fellowship program.

Findings from CIRCLE’s voter registration data

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In their recent article, The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) finds that "youth voter registration is up from 2016, but lagging for youngest eligible voters."

GWI stands in solidarity with Black Women

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Funding, Research Fellowships

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"Collaboratory is excited to launch the Research Fellows Program, which recognizes exemplary and emerging scholar-practitioners who are committed to advancing the field of community engagement. Fellows explore research and programmatic efforts that enact Collaboratory’s mission and support member institutions and the broader field of higher education community engagement. Fellowships are designed to give practitioner-scholars a national platform to pursue research and programmatic ideas that correlate with ongoing Collaboratory initiatives." There is available funding for two fellowships: ...continue reading "Funding, Research Fellowships"

All-In will host a series of virtual events starting on October 23

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Teaching Day 2020

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"This year will be virtual and provide a valuable opportunity for instructors and teaching assistants from across GW to build community and learn from each other’s experiences. Attendees will hear from colleagues across the university in brief lightning talks and from experts in a roundtable. The day will close with an interactive demonstration of active learning exercises and a session on resources to support students." Register here.

Join the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Visualizing Data: Engaging Audiences Beyond the Numbers

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Join visiting Professor of Community Engagement, Paul Rucker

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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.

Upcoming webinars, Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights

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Upcoming webinars about voting will be hosted by Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights, an initiative of Scholars Strategy Network.

GW Art Therapy Program Offers Workshops

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Local community partners as well as members of the GW community are being offered a great opportunity with GW’s Art Therapy Graduate Program. Single workshops or a weekly workshop series can be designed for specific audiences, including teachers, frontline workers, parents, students, older adults, or volunteer staff.

Masters students in this program will provide therapeutic art workshops, delivered virtually through Zoom. The students will develop the workshops through a practicum course, with oversight from their professors.

Students can work with you to develop the topics for the GW community (faculty, staff, students) as well. Coordinators are needed to help the students develop an understanding of the intended audience, and provide outreach to potential workshop participants. Examples of workshops typical for an art therapy program include:

Managing stress through art-making
Using art in the fight for racial justice
Art-making for self-care under pressure
Creating connections with art
Coping with the unexpected using art
Honoring our losses through art
Art as communication: When words don’t work
Visual storytelling in COVID times

If you are interested in working with a pair of students to develop workshops for one of your audiences, contact Lisa Garlock, lgarlock@gwu.edu.

Prof. Garlock will be hosting an information session for those interested in learning more about this opportunity:

Thursday, October 1, at 10am.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77195450328?pwd=N0tEcmplTTk2VHZ3eFlJcTMzd0dUQT09

Meeting ID: 771 9545 0328
Passcode: 7SnhRP

Sept 18th Nashman Faculty Check-in: Guest Speaker GW Instructional Core

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This week's Faculty Check-in meeting featured Tricia Arnold from GW's Instructional Core. Tricia presented a follow-up from her summer workshop on facilitating reflection discussions in an online course. She shared a Blackboard template and how to use it. The template addresses the "quality matters" elements of good course design. We will discuss further if a community engagement module for this template would be helpful for our group of faculty.

A zipfile with the Blackboard template, the recording of Tricia describing how to install and use it are in our shared folder. Additionally, this folder has the recording and presentation slides from her summer workshop on facilitating reflection discussions in online courses: https://gwu.box.com/s/rkn2pzt97h6zjzhdms1imb3h30oxw0y3

Blackboard Course Templates Available to Nashman Faculty

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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!