Skip to content

This is an opportunity to learn more about the Service-Learning Quality Assessment Tool (SLQAT), and contribute to the researchers' continued revisions. 

From the researchers:

We now invite you to join us in the second phase of our research focused on assessing the reliability and validity of our tool.  Specifically, we are looking for service-learning scholars, practitioners, and supporters to assign relative weights each of the instrument’s 28 elements by completing a survey in which you will assign each element a score, based on what you believe its level of influence is on student learning outcomes.

...continue reading "Participate in Study to Develop a Course Assessment Tool"

"Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic is actively committed to leveraging the collective capacity of higher education to co-create an equitable, just society. Please join us for our series of "Community Equity Conversations: Don't Look Away" via Zoom with Carmen Marshall to support our members as we create an open space for listening and put our values of equity and justice into action through reflective discussions."
The first discussion on Wednesday, June 10 at 10:00 a.m. will address these questions:
  • Given the murder of George Floyd and subsequent call to action in the form of protests of racial injustice, what are your personal reflections.
  • From what you are currently reading and experiencing, what next steps are you taking or planning to take?
  • What resources and information do you need to help you move forward? Do you have resources you can share with others?

Please register for the call here. Once you are registered you will receive an email with Zoom call details.

Campus Compact has issued a call for colleges and universities to take action in pursuit of equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal power for all. They also recommend that colleges and universities examine the circumstances in their own communities and take specific steps consistent with their stated values.

"In 2015, following an earlier wave of protests in response to police violence against African Americans, Campus Compact released a set of recommendations for ways colleges and universities can challenge injustice. Read more about what your campus can do to take action.
Read the recommendations >"

 

Many thanks to Dr. Maranda Ward for compiling and sharing this resource list:

The GW SGA president, Howard Brookins, and SGA vice president, Brandon Hill (two Black undergraduates) compiled an incredibly comprehensive Anti-racism Resource Guide. It includes antiracism books, articles, documentaries, toolkits, websites, and social media handles.
Without duplicating the resource guide above, here are some additional resources to consider sharing with your networks:

...continue reading "Resources on Anti-Racism"

The Pulitzer Center is distributing lesson plans and materials related to student learning about disenfranchisement and mobilization against it.

View the lesson plan here: https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/exploring-voter-suppression-and-activism-us-elections-27997?utm_source=email&utm_medium=educationnewsletter&utm_campaign=5272020

If you don't have the Campus Compact podcast on your subscription list, now is a good time to add it: https://compact.org/podcast/

This month features a series of "minisodes" produced by students around topics related to the 2020 election.

The 2020 Campus Compact Annual Conference reached over 5,000 viewers during the live stream sessions May 11-13th.

If you missed it, all conference sessions are now live on their YouTube channel.   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpEMvWFeizHOAUs66M2oBpr50N1CVxZ8

Sessions explore topics such as online community-engaged learning, civic digital literacy, place-based justice, civic learning ecosystems, student voting participation, and more.

You are welcome to join the Rodham Impact Speaker Series, Working Toward Health Equity:  A Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton.   Monday, June 1st at 6 pm.
This conversation will be live streamed from Rodham's Facebook page:  GW Rodham Institute

Issues in Science and Technology is hosting a virtual town hall on May 27th, 2:45-3:45pm. Link here to register or view the event recording.

...continue reading "Virtual Town Hall May 27th: COVID-19 and the Mission of the US Public University"

ClearySD.jpgCongratulations 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"

This summer, "Rise Up for Equity" is hosting a virtual summit on community schools and family engagement.  Their workshops are available now. Head to the event website to register and view the events list.

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 28th, 11am: Moving forward with virtual service-learning courses

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-discussion-moving-forward-with-virtual-service-learning-courses-tickets-106424414288

 

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...."

Congratulations to Nashman Affiliate Faculty, Dr. Maranda Ward, who recently published a a research article on youth identity formation through participatory action research. To read the full article, click here.  

Dr. Ward used Promising Futures, the arts-based peer education program she developed, as her study site in conducting this research. Dr. Ward sought to understand how the identities of urban youth labeled as ‘at-risk’ was affected by their role as peer mentors for students traditionally labeled as ‘at-risk’ by academic standards.   

...continue reading "Participatory Action Research through Arts-based Research Methods"

As a part of a series of webinars discussing the effects of COVID-19 on many aspects of society, The Atlantic hosted a webinar called “COVID-19: The 2020 Campaign” In this webinar, viewers watched two different discussions, one featuring pollsters Cornell Belcher and Sara Fagen, and another featuring political journalists Adam Harris and Amy Walter.  

 To watch the entire webinar, click here 

...continue reading "Webinar: COVID-19 and the 2020 Election"