The Spring 2020 volume of the International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership, and Social Justice is live at https://opus.govst.edu/iujsl/
This journal is a good opportunity for our undergraduate students. We encourage you to review this volume, and consider course assignments that would create opportunities for your students to submit their work.
The following was shared with us by the National Society for Experiential Education:
During this global pandemic, institutions are grappling with moving education online, including experiential education. The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) will continue our tradition of offering free professional development webinars and resources to any experiential educators, regardless of membership status with the society.
During this semester, NSEE will provide a series of five free webinars that allow space for crowd-sourcing knowledge: We know that now is that time for us to learn from and plan with one another. Please join us to share your struggles, thoughts, needs, and plans for the future.
Click here for more information and to register: https://www.nsee.org/webinar-series
Topics:
Friday, April 10th, Noon (EST)
Session 1: Roundtable Discussion with NSEE’s President
Friday, April 17th, 1 pm (EST)
Session 2: NSEE Conversations - Student Employees
Friday, April 24th, 2 pm (EST)
Session 3: NSEE Conversations - Using Kolb's Experiential Learning Model to Guide the Design of Online Learning
Friday, May 1st, 3 pm (EST)
Session 4: NSEE Conversations - Where to Find Experiential Education Next
The show must go on! The Spring 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship will be held virtually. The Symposium is an event at the end of each semester, for students who engaged with the community for their course to share what they did and what they learned with the GW and DC communities.
...continue reading "How to Guide for Spring 2020 Virtual Symposium"
A recording of the April 24th Faculty Friday discussion, "Democracy Despite Disruption: Improving Student Voter Engagement through Pedagogy" presented by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) is available here:
Colleges and universities are leading the way on improving voter engagement of our diverse populations of student learners, and data show this focus is working. Yet students in some disciplines vote at lower rates than others. What are the ways—even in this time of COVID-19 disruption—that faculty can connect voter engagement to their work with students? This webinar will focus on non-partisan pedagogical and curricular strategies to improve student voter engagement.
Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Global Health Department of Global Health (primary) and Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, recently won the Nashman Faculty Development Grant. From her background in public affairs, nutrition, and sociological perspectives, Dr. Ramos “employs mixed methods to identify and understand the dietary determinants of underserved, at-risk populations, and to better inform nutrition policies and programs.” ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Uri Colón-Ramos"
Dr. Sara Wilensky, Special Services Faculty member for Undergraduate Education and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education, “leads projects on safety net issues, focusing on the financing and access-to-care barriers faced by vulnerable and underserved populations.” Professor Wilensky has a PhD in Public Policy from GW, but also happens to have a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. From her Public Policy and Law background, Dr. Wilensky incites and advances deeper understandings about the complicated areas within Public Health. ...continue reading "Community Engaged Faculty, Dr. Sara Wilensky"
Students in Community Engaged Scholarship Courses who are doing indirect service during covid that is not part of an organization should log their hours at this event (and tag their courses so that the impact is seen by faculty)
Step 1. Go to the GWServes Community Response to Covid website and click the add impact button: https://gwserves.givepulse.com/event/174399-GW-Community-Response-to-COVID-19
Step 2. Put in the dates/times you served and choose GWServes Support as your verifier
Step 3. Please write a reflection describing what you did then Click the box for your class and click submit
Thank you to all of our students and faculty who are serving indirectly right now. If you need more indirect service opportunities click here to use givepulse/GWServes to find them: https://blogs.gwu.edu/nashmanfacultyupdate/2020/04/01/opportunities-for-virtual-service-across-the-country/
““The Climb Is Our Story” will provide college and career readiness skills to School Without Walls high school students who participate in the Multicultural Student Services Center student internship program. GW students will facilitate college and career readiness workshops with the assistance of the MSSC from September 2019 - May 2020.” For more information about The Climb is Our Story, please click here. ...continue reading "Gabi Bello Discusses “The Climb is Our Story,” Zaniya Lewis’ 2019-2020 Knapp Fellowship, and her Civic Engagement"
The upcoming 17th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 4-5, 2020. This is the world’s largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference. The conference will take place at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Register during August for a highly reduced registration rate (50% lower than the regular rate).
Confirmed speakers to date: Learn from more than 200 speakers who are committed to effective, responsible programs in health, development, entrepreneurship, and education. See the confirmed 2020 conference speakers to date.
Call for Abstracts: Abstracts are currently being accepted for research presentations, program presentations, and for the social impact pitch presentations, including submissions for the $10,000 and $5,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. The first abstract deadline is August 31. For those submitting a research or program abstract, October 15th is the final deadline.
Register for the Global Health & Innovation Conference
by August 31 for 50% off the registration rate.
Here is the Conference Schedule.
Here is the Application to present.
Here is more information about the Innovation Prize.
Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal (SECEIJ) is calling for submissions to be part of a special issue honoring the life and legacy of Dr. David Ferguson, Distinguished Service Professor and Provost’s Scholar at Stony Brook University, who died unexpectedly in July 2019. David was one of the first individuals involved with the National Science Foundation-funded SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Project and became a senior leader in that community. In addition to chairing the SENCER Leadership Fellows program, David was a long-time member of the editorial advisory board for SECEIJ.
In keeping with the themes that were important to David during his career, we invite submissions on the following topics:
Submission guidelines can be found at http://new.seceij.net/submission-guidelines/. Please note that for this special issue, submissions do not need to fall into one of the categories described in the guidelines. All submissions should be sent to Marcy Dubroff, Managing Editor, at mdubroff@fandm.edu. The deadline for submissions to this special issue is April 15. Questions about this special issue can be directed to either of SECEIJ’s co-editors in chief, Trace Jordan (trace.jordan@nyu.edu) or Matt Fisher (matt.fisher@stvincent.edu).
The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) invites you to join our Research and Evidence webinar series. This webinar series is one of many ways ORE is sharing current research on civic engagement, volunteering, and national service.
This month’s topic is:
Participatory Health Research: Challenges and Approaches
Date and Time: Wednesday, Apr. 8, from 2-3:00 p.m. ET
Students and faculty members can search hundreds of opportunities to serve virtually and log their hours on GWServes.givepulse.com
Many students are asking "how can I help from where I am" and some student organizations and students in community engaged scholarship courses have direct service partnerships with organizations that are closed for the foreseeable future. The GWServes platform offers ways to still serve and meet needs virtually while tracking hours on their platform as you normally would.
Step 1. Log on to GWServes.givepulse.com and click "get involved"
Step 2. Set your search parameters so you see virtual opportunities nationwide by clicking on gwserves and then un-clicking the box and clicking apply so you can see all opportunities.
Step 3. Clear your location search parameters by clicking on your zip code, clear, then apply to get the maximum amount of results.
Step 4. Click the virtual/remote button so you only see virtual service opportunities. Click groups or events to virtually serve at an event or with a group
Step 5. Add your impact hours as you normally would to share with your Community Engaged Course, School or student organization.
Have a story about your virtual service? Share it with us!
Provost Blake recently announced that the university has adjusted the option for most undergraduate courses to be taken pass/no pass for this semester only. Students have been contacted to explain this option and how they go about electing it for their courses.
Many other institutions are going this route as well. What does this mean for the service expectations in your course? If students plan to not complete their service expectation because they can pass the course without it, how are you discussing with them the responsible conversation they should have with their community partner (if their partner organization is open).
We have learned that many CES course instructors (adjunct faculty in particular) are not receiving all of the latest information about courses and resources for shifting to distance learning. Given that, I'm sharing the following message from Kimberly Gross, of Columbian College with some related information/resources.
...continue reading "Adjustment to Allow Students to Select Pass/No Pass Option"
The Association of American Colleges & Universities will be hosting a conference on Integrative Learning and Signature Work July 21-July 24, 2020 at American University in Washington, DC. The conference is intended for college and university teams interested in advancing programs and curricula aimed at building students’ capacity to integrate their learning across the curriculum and co-curriculum, foster global learning through community engagement, and capture students’ development through signature work. Sessions led by national experts will emphasize the value of leveraging general education, interdisciplinary approaches, and co-curricular experiences to achieve campus goals to expand integrative learning and community engagement.
If you are interested and want to learn more about the event click here.
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