Students explore the parallels between Challenger disaster and Ferguson crisis during a unique class.
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Students explore the parallels between Challenger disaster and Ferguson crisis during a unique class.
Danforth Scholars asked for a new model for spring break service, one that would teach them about St. Louis and provide an anchor for their studies at WashU.
WashU has been selected as host of the 2017 IMPACT National Conference, which will gather national student leaders in civic engagement and service.
Prof. Moore McBride shares her perspectives on how universities should engage students in the voting process in a WashU Expert article.
The Research University Civic Engagement Network will focus on civic engagement practices in higher education.
A new series titled “Fail Better” showcases Washington University faculty, staff and students who have failed big, sometimes in very public, humiliating ways. And yet, their so-called failure has brought surprising rewards. The latest interview in the series profiles Gephardt Institute Civic Scholar Kierstan Carter, who wanted to change St. Louis by connecting high school students with […]
Applications for the program are now being accepted.
Through a series of tours, Community Engagement Faculty Fellow Prof. Bob Hansman reveals the complexities of St. Louis to faculty, staff, and students.
The new university homepage features Civic Scholars Program alumni and the 10-year anniversary of the institute.
The institute has partnered with Hong Kong Polytechnic University to offer three slots and $2500 in funding to serve on a cross-cultural project in early summer of 2016.
The WashU campus is teeming with students, faculty, and staff who have the ideas, knowledge, and drive to make an impact in the community. The Civic Engagement Fund, now reinvigorated with additional funding and new categories, is the institute’s vehicle to help catalyze these efforts to strengthen communities in St. Louis and beyond. Now in […]
WashU’s Student Life sat down with Gephardt Institute Community Engagement Faculty Fellow to discuss inequity in the St. Louis region and his life’s work in the community. Read the full article in Student Life.
This post is brought to you by Katy Przybylski, vice president of campus and community outreach at the WashU Women’s Panhellenic Association. A staggering thirty percent of Washington University in St. Louis’s undergraduate population is a member of a fraternity or sorority. And there is strength in those numbers. On Saturday, September 26th, 250 volunteers […]
With Meet St. Louis, a new program for first-year undergraduates, small groups of students set out across the city on half-day experiences focused on discovery of local issues, service, and reflection. Led by faculty, staff, and student group leaders who have a specific and deep connection with a variety of local issues and neighborhoods, nearly 400 students took the first step in an important dialogue about what it means to be an engaged member of the St. Louis community.
President Harry Truman once said that “Men and women make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” An anniversary is a time to reflect on and celebrate the past and […]
WashU’s Record features the Gephardt Institute and previews new initiatives such as Meet St. Louis, the Civic Engagement Fund, and Community-Based Teaching and Learning. Read the full article.
Executive Director Amanda Moore McBride shares the Gephardt Institute’s renewed vision for engaged citizens and strong communities.
Shastri, a Civic Scholar and Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award honoree, has led a number of high-profile campus initiatives and organizations, including the Mosaic Project and the Social Justice Center. Read WUSTL Commencement’s full article here.
Tori Bawel, who is an Annika Rodriguez Scholar and a Gephardt Institute Civic Scholar, plans to attend Stanford University School of Medicine in the fall. She said “I recognized how I could help both individual patients and vulnerable populations through medicine, research and advocacy.” Read WUSTL Commencement’s full article here.
Campus performance groups acted out stories written by Buder Elementary students at the second annual Young Storytellers Festival, hosted by Washington University senior honorary Mortar Board. Read WUSTL Commencement’s full article here.
Riggs, both an Ervin Scholar and a Cantor Family Civic Scholar, helped form St. Louis Students in Solidarity, a group of concerned college students from across the region. He joined protests in St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, and organized demonstrations on the Danforth Campus. Read WUSTL Commencement’s full article here.
The annual event raised $27,000 for urban arts program City Faces. Senior David Dwight IV beat out 15 candidates for the title of Mr. WashU. Read the Record’s full article here.
Relay for Life is the second largest event held on campus, after WILD. The event runs from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. to parallel how cancer never sleeps, thus neither do the participants during the time of the event. Read Student Life’s full article here.
Nearly 100 Washington University students, faculty and staff members filled Emerson Auditorium to listen to and engage in a dialogue with the Ferguson Commission. Read Student Life’s full article here. .
Relay for Life hopes to raise some $200,000 for the American Cancer Society. In the past 12 years, Relay at Washington University has raised $2 million for cancer research and support. Read the Record’s full article here.
14 candidates acted, danced and performed to the crowd of people in Edison Theater to compete for the title of Mr. Wash. U. Read Student Life’s full article here.
Washington University’s first ally-donation blood drive, which encouraged men who were ineligible to donate due to their sexual history to partner with an ally to donate in their places, took place Thursday at four locations on campus. Read Student Life’s full article here.
Since its inception in 1994, City Faces has worked to provide educational and life skills to children through interaction with University students. Read the Student Life’s full article here.
Students, faculty and staff members are urged to make a donation to Operation Food Search or to bring nonperishable food items to one of 99 drop-off locations on the Danforth, Medical, North and West campuses. Read the Record’s full article here.
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service selected twelve sophomores for its 2017 class of the Civic Scholars Program. With its mission “to cultivate the next generation of civic leaders,” the program seeks students with exemplary scholarship, leadership, and commitment to community engagement. Civic Scholars enroll in two years of academic coursework related to civic leadership […]
Student volunteers built homes in Texas, dug ponds in Panama and established clinics in Honduras. Read the Record’s full article here.
Washington University holds an annual food drive, PB and Joy, to raise food and monetary donations for Operation Food Search. This year’s drive begins April 2. Last year, the drive collected a record 16,908 pounds of nutritious, kid-friendly food along with $10,745. Read the Record’s full article here.
Founded by the Clinton Global Initiative, an initiative of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, CGI U supports projects that advance five focus areas: education, environmental sustainability, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation and public health. Read the Record’s full article here.
National Strive for College program founded at Washington University helps thousands of high school students. Read the Record’s full article here.
“Community service isn’t about padding one’s resume, it isn’t about doing things so that one might be proud and arrogant about it. But it is the dawning realization of to the greater understanding our humanity, our fragility and a greater appreciation of the great lives that so many of us lead and deem to be […]
Diana hated hospitals, but when she underwent heart surgery as a teenager, her perspective changed. The kindness of everyone at her hospital turned a scary time into a positive experience, and she began volunteering there regularly. Today she continues her service as an Annika Rodriguez Scholar. Diana also works with the Community Service Office to […]
This is a Gephardt Story
“The emphasis on social innovation in higher education and the social sector is ascendant; however, this current collective obsession can be an obstacle to real social change and should not be treated as a substitute for it.” Gephardt Director Amanda Moore McBride provided commentary for The Chronicle on Higher Education on the drawbacks to higher […]
Civic Scholars from the Class of 2015 have been recognized for their work across campus and beyond. Jason Silberman, a senior in the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology in Arts & Sciences, is a Stern Family Civic Scholar. Jason worked with a team at the Washington University School of Medicine last summer to develop a checklist to guide standard […]
Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, Bettie Bofinger Brown Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Social Work, Brown School; Director, Gephardt Institute for Public Service I write as a scholar of civic engagement who lives in St. Louis. I write having just returned from Hong Kong where I visited the “Umbrella Movement” protests at Occupy Central. I write in […]
National Council member Kurt Summers (BU 00) was recently named treasurer.
The students, staff, and faculty affiliated with the Gephardt Institute for Public Service are deeply troubled by the events in Ferguson.
Working toward a Masters of Social Work at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Roger and Amy Faxon, proud parents of Sara Faxon (2015), have always valued education, volunteerism and civic engagement. The Faxons recently made a gift to Washington University in St. Louis, directing half of the gift to the College of Arts and Sciences and the other half to support the Goldman Fellows Program at the Gephardt […]
Dr. Amanda Moore McBride, Associate Dean for the Brown School and Director of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service, gave a TedTalk on rethinking civic connection and impact at TedxWUSTL.
St. Louis Up Close is a series featuring casual dialogues with St. Louis non-profit leaders about the social issues they address, sponsored by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the Community Service Office. This past Wednesday, the topic of conversation was public health. A panel of three innovative field workers came to discuss new […]
Enjoy writing? Have experience as a volunteer or veteran? Inkstand is a writing workshop for people who serve (e.g., volunteers, veterans, public service professionals, etc.) and wish to reflect on their experiences through writing. Over the course of six weeks, participants draft, workshop, and revise an original essay, as well as discuss published works for […]
International Service-Learning is the theme of the latest edition of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, available online at www.jheoe.uga.edu. The journal is a follow up to a research symposium at Washington University in April 2011 sponsored by the Center for Social Development and the Gephardt Institute for Public Service in partnership with Duke […]
For the sixth year, Washington University has been named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities. Selection to the Honor Roll is […]
Funds are now available for programs and events this spring semester at Washington University that have students as a target audience and relate to one or more of CGI U themes: • Education• Environment and Climate Change• Peace and Human Rights• Poverty Alleviation• Public Health The goal of this support is to build excitement for […]