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The next edition of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Webinar Series is May 20th, Community Resilience and Healing during COVID-19. During this session, our guest speakers will share from their work how we can understand the factors that promote community resilience during COVID-19 and lessons learned about community healing in past traumas.

For more information about upcoming sessions and to view recordings of previous sessions.

 

Building on a decade of collaboration, the network of educational institutions and community organizations formerly known as The Globalsl Network has become The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative @CBGLCollab on Twitter or a group on Facebook.

The Collaborative is a network of educational institutions and community organizations that advances ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

The Collaborative does this through several specific mechanisms:

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Amizade (https://amizade.org), an organization that facilitates global service-learning experiences, has created a new learning module to help students learn how to identify misinformation. Students can choose to use this tool as an individual learner or facilitated by an educator.
In addition to this tool, Amizade has also developed a series of virtual service-learning experiences, internships, and courses with our community partners around the world. You can learn about those here: https://amizade.org/programs/vsl/

The Community Works Institute is hosting its annual Summer Series virtually this year, beginning June 23, 2020.

CWI's 2020 VIRTUAL Summer EAST and WEST Institutes, on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability 
Special Registration Opportunity
, supported by a generous private funder.
Register now at $699 per participant

http://cwiregistration.memberlodge.org 

Four students in HSSJ were chosen for an exemplar award at the Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Shayna Druckman and group members Sophie Clemens, Alexia Veiga, and Grayson Hussong recently won the award.

Their project in Dr. Emily Morrison’s Human Services & Social Justice was charged with the task of researching, navigating, identifying key components, programs and services catering to Senior Citizens in Ward 8.  They focused on Ward 8 Seniors access to resources such as transportation, and services.

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Allen Wang is a Junior in the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences who recently won an award for his work in BISC 1008 with 7 Cups at the Virtual Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Community-Engaged Scholar Emebte Atanaw spoke with Allen to discuss his project for the Understanding Organisms course with Dr. Tara Scully.

Allen’s project was teaming up with virtual community partner 7Cups, which is a free virtual counseling/therapy service for those who need a listening ear.

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Jacob Tafrate and his group member Elizabeth Szafranski were the first place Nashman Prize winners at the Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.

Their project for the Geography department was titled Geographic Analysis of Informal Road Networks in Siberia. Tafrate explained that their project was “taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how informal road networks influence the Ivank people.” They focused on different road transfer networks and how they have changed and evolved over time, various hazards, and analyzing how it influenced the people in the area.

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Professor Howard Straker, Assistant Professor of Physician Assistant Studies, “teaches a course called Health, Justice and Society which includes a service-learning component where currently the PA students work with community PAs to produce patient education materials that are specific to their population and meet health literacy principles.” To learn more about Professor Straker's work and our Nashman Affiliate Faculty, please click here. Professor Straker is also the President of Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA); to read his interview with PAEA, please click here.  ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Professor Howard Straker"

The Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies frequently hosts panel discussions locally at the Arena Stage theatre. During COVID-19, these are being held via Zoom. For information on upcoming events and to view video recordings on former discussions, see https://www.arenastage.org/civildialogues

Monday, May 25, from 4:00pm EST -5:30pm EST, the panel will discuss Politics in the COVID-19 Age: How to Make Democracy Work during the Pandemic. 

The panel will include: 
  • Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University
  • William Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University
  • Norman J Ornstein, Vice President of the Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation
Join via Zoom:

Dr. Miller the Vice President for Research has announced that GW joined the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), "a new collaborative partnership committed to defining and building the growing field of public interest technology."

GW and the 35 other member colleges and universities of PIT-UN are committed to training future leaders to apply technology expertise to promote the public good and advance the public interest.

If you are motivated to solve complex problems, share ideas and build relationships with each other and faculty at other network institutions, please let join these conversations - email askovpr@gwu.edu.

Additionally, PIT-UN sponsors an annual Network Challenge that provides funding to member institutions interested in launching public interest technology initiatives or projects on their campuses. GW will be allowed to submit up to three proposals. The grant amounts can be $45,000, $90,000 or $180,000, inclusive of a 20% overhead rate. Interested faculty will need to submit their CV and a two-page description of their proposed project by May 26 via OVPR’s InfoReady portal.

Are you looking for an internship this summer or fall or advising students who are seeking internships?

The Haas Center at Stanford University shared a great tip sheet for students working in a remote internship, or for those setting up remote internships. Click here for tips!

NCoC launched a new initiative in March called the “Learn, Ask, and Share” network in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their focus is to bring local leaders valuable tools, information, and partnership to help everyone adapt and achieve full participation in their own communities. 

They've covered great topics like vote by mail, managing anxiety, and combating disinformation. NCoC also launched a series on “Talking to Your People Online.” 

They are partnering with the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition team who rapidly shifted their entire in-person voter engagement strategy to online efforts learn more about their work here

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/

 

JHEOE is an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on advancing theory and practice related all forms of outreach and engagement between higher education institutions and communities. The latest issue is available at https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/issue/view/203

Table of Contents:

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Community Science is hosting a panel on May 14, 2020 at 12:45 as a part of their4-part webinar series on building community capacity for change during a crisis. Register here.