Teaching Community Engaged Scholarship


Share News on Conferences, Awards, and Grants

Please use this space to share announcements about conferences, awards, grants and prizes for our students or for community engaged teaching.

If any of your students has written a research essay that engages with DC in some way, please encourage them to submit to the Julian Clement Chase Prize.

In past years, we have seen excellent submissions from a wide range of approaches: writing about DC history, analyzing DC issues and creating engineering solutions; using DC as a case study to investigate issues in education, health, or other issues; studying nonprofit leaders and their communities--anything that engages with Washington, D.C. in some way.

We encourage submissions from all disciplines and at all levels of undergraduate work; group projects are welcome.

Students can win up to $1000 and will present their research at an award ceremony in October.

The submission deadline is not until May 25, but by then you may have forgotten these wonderful essays! Please encourage your students to look into the Prize now.

Please direct your students to this website for more information: https://writingprogram.gwu.edu/julian-clement-chase-prize.

Questions? Contact Phyllis Ryder pryder@gwu.edu or Randi Kristensen rkris@gwu.edu

MANY THANKS!
Conference On Community Writing, Online 2021
“Weaving Narratives For Social Justice Action In The Local, National, Global”
Dates: October 21-23, 2021
Hosted By The George Washington University
Call for Proposals

Phyllis Ryder (GW University Writing program) is the local host chair for the fourth Community Writing Conference. She would like to invite you to submit a proposal for our October conference. The deadline is Friday, February 5, and the proposal process is quick. (If you need more time, please reach out to her.)

This national conference brings together community activists and nonprofit leaders along with faculty who work closely with communities through service-learning, community-engaged teaching, and/ or participatory research. We come together to share stories and counterstories that address injustices. We come together to highlight the strengths, beauty, and knowledge of local, national and global communities, and to create a space for coalition building and action.

Although the conference will be held online, we plan to highlight the DC-Maryland-Virginia region, where the local, national and global visibly coalesce. The conference committee welcomes proposals for workshops, interactive presentations, and creative displays and performances from community organizations. We'd like to hear your expertise in navigating the many layers of this work. What would you like to say to other community organizations working in your issue area? What would you like faculty to know about what it takes to mobilize and engage communities? What kind of networks would you like to see come out of this conference?

Please reach out to me Phyllis Ryder at pryer@gwu.edu if you have any questions. And please mark the dates for October 21-23. We hope that even if you are not interested in presenting, you will join us then.
The proposals for a Nashman Faculty Development Mini-grant are due in a couple of weeks. More info and the RFP is here: https://serve.gwu.edu/nashman-faculty-development-grants

These grants are to support faculty who are interested in learning more about community engagement and exploring community engagement in connection to course design or their own scholarly research or creative activities. The most typical proposals support:

- a faculty stipend for attending the Nashman Center Course Design Workshop Series and re-desining a course to include community engagement
- funds to attend conferences or other professional development related to community engagement in your field
- funds for a small pilot study exploring community based participatory research methods

If you would like to talk over ideas, I’m happy to schedule time.