2024 AAC&U Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment
This conference provides space for presenters and participants to engage with and reimagine approaches to the three interrelated, complementary pillars of content: general education, pedagogy, and assessment.
Date: April 9-17, 2024
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
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Leveraging the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement Application:
Best
Practices
and Impact from Carnegie Staff on '24 & '26 Cycles
Date: Dec. 6, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:30 P.M. EST -
Developing Common Definitions of Engagement for Your Institutions
Date: Dec. 7, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M EST -
Turning
Community Work Into Publications
Date: Feb. 9, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. EST -
Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network (OEPN) Energy Boost
Date: Feb. 15, 2024 | Time: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. EST -
Preparing for the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement
Date: Feb. 28, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST -
Mapping Engagement for Your Institution
Date: March. 14, 2024 | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. CT
Summer '24 Teaching Social Action Institute
This three-day virtual institute will introduce faculty and staff to an experiential learning approach for incorporating social action campaigns into either a semester-long course or co-curricular workshop series. In this transformative experiential learning model, students develop and launch a social action campaign of their choosing during the semester the course is taught. The student campaigns seek to change a rule, regulation, norm, or practice of an institution, whether on campus or in the community.
Applications Due: Friday, February 23, 2024
Winter '24 Teaching Social Action Institute
This three-day virtual institute will introduce faculty and staff to an experiential learning approach for incorporating social action campaigns into either a semester-long course or co-curricular workshop series.
Applications Due: Friday, December 15, 2023
Writing Strong Narratives to Document the Impact of Your Work
WVU ADVANCE Center and Eberly Writing Studio invite faculty and advanced graduate students to attend a three-part workshop series on how to create narratives that highlight their commitment to educational excellence through diverse perspectives and inclusive engagement.
Dates: Nov. 27, 1:00 PM | Nov. 28, 1:00 PM | Dec. 8, 11:45 PM
Cammie Jones, Director of the Carnegie Elective for Community Engagement, will introduce the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement and its relevance to engaged scholarship and community capacity. Utilizing self-study as a tool for institutional reflection and ritual, the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement provides an independent and rigorous assessment of an institution’s extraordinary commitment to, investment in, and accomplishment at Community Engagement. Speakers will highlight the ‘24 application cycle and revisions to the 2026 application, including a new section on civic and democratic engagement, how it reflects ongoing transformative shifts within our institutions and communities, and the Carnegie team’s approach to address institutional- and community-based problem solving for the public good.
Date: December 6, 2023 | 1:00 -2030 p.m. (EST)
Community Engaged Learning in the Classroom: Rubrics, Reflections, and Resources
This session will discuss creative examples, strategies for grading, and best practices for leading students to reflect upon and make meaning of their community-engaged learning experiences.
Date: December 6, 2023 | 1:00 -20:30 p.m. (EST)
Winter 24' Institute on Teaching Social Action
Hosted by the Bonner Foundation
Date: December 15, 2023 | 1:00-2:30 PM (EST)
Supporting Kinship Caregivers | REACH October Webinar | WVU Extension
This webinar discusses the relationships and support methods for grandparents raising their grandchildren in rural Appalachia. Public health disparages, such as the opioid epidemic, are regionally connected to this growing event. Nearly half of all grandparents in West Virginia raise their grandchildren.
After completing this webinar, please complete the evaluation at the end, using
the QR code on the last slide.
Contact Gina Taylor, EdD, at Gina.Taylor@mail.wvu.edu for more information
on this grant project.
Date: Pre-recorded webinar
Federal Community Development Funding Training| WVU Community Development Hub
The Hub, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, and federal partners will share knowledge on how to best secure and find federal funds and programs to match your needs at this free in-person training opportunity. This training is in preparation for a successful Spring 2024 federal funding cycle, and for successful management of current federal grants.
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023|12-1:30 p.m. Central Time
Fall Campus Compact Webinar Series
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Community Engagement Professional Credential Information Session
Date: Nov. 2, 2023 | 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. EST -
Faculty Learning Community: Building Community and Clarifying Our Motivations
and Capacities
Date: Nov. 9, 2023 | 3:00 - 5:00 P.M EST -
Co-Creating Tools and Solutions with Communities and Science: An Introduction
to Community Science
Date: Nov. 13, 2023 | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. EST -
Rural Serving Institutions Affinity Network
Date: Nov. 15, 2023 | Time: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. EST -
Anti-Racist Community Engagement Workshop Series: Centering Ourselves, Our
Bodies in Our Collective Work Against Racism in Community Engagement
Date: Dec. 8, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST -
Faculty Learning Community: Engaged Course Design Foundations and Frameworks
Date: Dec. 14, 2023 | 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. EST
This training network will be able to raise awareness about public health approaches to the opioid overdose crisis and provide a framework for community action to reduce overdose deaths. This crisis affects our communities in so many ways and effective solutions require partnerships and collaborations from many stakeholders.
Registration ends : November 6th, 2023, register here: RORWV Fall Series 2023 (jotform.com)
NSF Fall 2023 Virtual Grants Conference
Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) to learn about up-to-date information
about policies and procedures, and specific funding opportunities and answer attendance
questions.
Date: Nov. 8, at 12 PM EST | Zoom
Place-Based Education Conference
Hosted by the Great Lakes Stewardship Conference
Date: Nov. 9-11, 2023
Join the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative on a series of presentations and intermittent, intentional dialogue and connection at Haverford College's arboretum campus.
Date: Nov. 9-11, 2023
Research Skills: WVU Libraries Workshop Series
WVU Libraries Research Commons will host several online workshops in October geared towards a variety of academic and professional levels. Increase knowledge and skill levels on research and data management programs through interactive online and in-person workshops.
Date: Multiple Times Available
Locating Journals to Publish Educational Topics
Have you written a great article or abstract about teaching but don't know where to publish it? This virtual session can help guide you. Join WVU Teaching and Learning Commons as we explore journal rankings in Web of Science and publishing opportunities in open-access journals.
Date: November 9th, 2023 | 3:30 P.M.-4:30 P.M. (Virtual)
Community Conversations: The Elements of Community Partnerships
Hosted by Michigan State University
Date: November 13, 2023
West Virginia Rural Health Conference: Lighting the Way for Rural Health
Hosted by WVRHA
Date: November 15-17, 2023
Using the Researcher Impact Framework to Document the Impacts of Your Community Engaged Research
Hosted by ESC Member Institutions
How can we communicate the benefits of engaged research? Join MSU to discuss
the Researcher Impact Framework (RIF), a tool designed to support researchers in
identifying, recognising, and valuing the multiple activities of their scholarly
life. Dr. Giovanna Lima and Sarah Bowman will share how the RIF can be used and
adapted to your needs.
Date: November 15-17, 2023