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Humanities DC has shared the following information about upcoming grant deadlines, and related webinars.
Learn how to apply for funding for the DC Community Heritage Project Grant, The DC Documentary Short Film Grant or the Youth Media Literacy Grant

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina have partnered to launch this webinar series, Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID19.

Sessions are on Wednesdays at 1pm EST.

View upcoming and past sessions here: http://www.ccphealth.org/covid-19-equity/?mc_cid=9c6ac5dd0d&mc_eid=db5e1adac3

Mercer University's Research that Reaches Out office has launched a new podcast that tells the stories of how faculty and staff are working with students to deepen learning and address real-world problems by stacking two high-impact practices, service and undergraduate research. These early episodes include concrete steps for how faculty and staff have modified classroom service partnerships and outreach in the face of Covid-19 distancing.
Upcoming episode summaries:

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Read the latest issue of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North CarolinaCampus Compact’s peer-reviewed, online journal, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  The journal is available online here.

All volumes (2009-2019) are archived and are available for download. Visit the Partnerships Archive.

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"Most Americans now alive have experienced no more than one or two moments of nationwide unity. The oldest Americans remember the victory gardens and scrap-metal drives of World War II; Baby Boomers might recall the period of national mourning after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963; many of us recall the wave of patriotism and flood of flags after 9/11. Someday, we may very well tell future generations about the spirit of 2020, the spring of the coronavirus, when we learned about social distancing and exponential spread."

Read the full article inThe Atlantic here.

...continue reading "“What Americans Are Doing Now is Beautiful”: COVID-19 and Americans In The Atlantic"

Nadia Volchansky, an Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture, Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, and a leader in the Interior Architecture Program, is a known published researcher, established designer, and strategic problem solver. While Professor Volchansky's most recent publication discusses, Sound, Time, and Cognitive Processing: Implications for Medical Contexts, poster presentation (2015), her current research focuses on how to sustain culture through community engagement and how failure can be used as a design tool.

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Elizabeth Fisher is a professor of classical and ancient near eastern studies and former chair of the department at the George Washington University. We are proud of her community engaged scholarship contributions. Read her bio and learn about her School Without Walls work.

Learn more about how Nashman supports community engaged faculty here.

 The Nashman Center Spring 2020 Symposium was a success! The first ever "virtual" Symposium featured 26 presentations. Thank you to the 59 students who prepared video presentations about their community engaged scholarship projects this semester. Work from across the institution was represented, including the Biology, Geography and Sociology Departments, as well as the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The School of Nursing, the School of Public Health.

Congratulations to the award winners, announced below.

Click here to view all submitted presentations. If you are seeking a particular presentation or course, note the search box on the right side of the screen.

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The Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is awarded annually at the GW Research Showcase. CBPR is an approach to research that involves community organizations and/or residents in the research process, with the aim of making a positive, sustainable  contribution to the community. We are happy to announce the winners for 2020.

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This National Commission has recommended supporting civic education and service-learning through new legislation and appropriations designated to the US Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

"The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service is the first entity in American history charged with conducting a comprehensive and holistic review of all forms of service to the nation.  While civic education and service-learning was not in the Commission’s mandate, it quickly become an issue the Commission studied closely. The Commission released its final report, Inspired to Serve, to Congress, the President, and the American public on March 25, 2020. The report covers a broad range of topics that impacts K-12 and higher education and you were recommended as someone who might be interested in our recommendations.

The Commission invites you to join a briefing on their final report, the briefings focused on higher education are on May 7 and May 19th, 1-2pm. Rsvp to Morgan Levey for the link: Morgan.N.Levey@inspire2serve.gov

Welcome to the final day of our first-ever "Virtual Symposium." At this point, nearly 200 people have voted for the Audience Choice Award. 

Many thanks to the student presenters and their faculty for sharing their community engagement projects here. Thanks also to the community organizations who partnered with GW students and faculty this year.

In the posts that follow this message, we encourage you to view the student presentations and leave a comment. The Nashman Affiliate Faculty will be reviewing student presentations to select Community Engaged Scholarship Exemplars, as well as recipients of the Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research.

YOU are needed to help select the Symposium Audience Choice Award. Click on this link to cast your vote for best Symposium presentation. Be sure to encourage your friends and colleagues to submit their choice as well.

Note: This blog has a variety of content, so if you have navigated to this post rather than linking to it, you may need to click here to filter all subsequent posts as Symposium presentations.

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Familia United

To hear Yesenia's presentation click here.

This presentation is submitted by Yesenia Yepez, a 2019-2020 Knapp Fellow. Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning. Knapp Fellows receive up to $10,000 to support their ideas to combine scholarly work with community action. Students, work with a faculty advisor, and one or more community partners, spend one year conducting inquiry and implementing their idea. Note: Applications for the 2020-2021 Knapp Fellows are due May 26, 2020 (see link above).

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The Climb Is Our Story

Hear Zaniya's Presentation here

This presentation is submitted by  Zaniya Lewis, a 2019-2020 Knapp Fellow. Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning. Knapp Fellows receive up to $10,000 to support their ideas to combine scholarly work with community action. Students, work with a faculty advisor, and one or more community partners, spend one year conducting inquiry and implementing their idea. Note: Applications for the 2020-2021 Knapp Fellows are due May 26, 2020 (see link above).

 

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To listen to this ISCOPES presentation click here.

This presentation describes a community engaged scholarship project through ISCOPES, which is a health-focused, team-based initiative that places GW students and employees from various fields of study as well as community practitioners and neighbors from around the DC Metro Area in interprofessional learning communities. ISCOPES "addresses bigger picture health issues through smarter service."

Help select the Symposium Audience Choice Award. Click on this link to cast your vote for best Symposium presentation.

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To listen to this ISCOPES presentation click here.

This presentation describes a community engaged scholarship project through ISCOPES, which is a health-focused, team-based initiative that places GW students and employees from various fields of study as well as community practitioners and neighbors from around the DC Metro Area in interprofessional learning communities. ISCOPES "addresses bigger picture health issues through smarter service."

Help select the Symposium Audience Choice Award. Click on this link to cast your vote for best Symposium presentation.