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The American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES) ProgramLearning Community for Graduate Scholar-ActivistsLaunched in January 2010, the ACES program is a partnership between the American Cultures Center () and the Public Service Center (). This program aims to transform how faculty’s community-engaged scholarship is valued, to enhance learning for students through a combination of teaching and practice, and to create new knowledge that impacts both the community and the academy. In this Fall 2020 proposal cycle, we invite graduate students to apply to the following learning community which started in 2019.Learning Community for Graduate Scholar-Activists: Graduate students may apply to participate in a series of workshops discussing community engagement and scholar-activism. Graduate students will have the opportunity to build community together while exploring the importance of and connection between their academic studies, teaching, and research and their community relationships and social justice efforts. By the final session, participants will produce an artifact incorporating new ideas from the workshop series. Students will receive a stipend upon completing the program.Program Desired Learning Outcomes:Participants will understand and explore the complexities of community-engaged scholarship and scholar-activism within the context of higher education, UC Berkeley, and partner communities. Participants will develop tools and strategies to further their scholar-activism. Participants will build relationships with other community-engaged scholars on and off campus. Participants will play a role in iterative design of future community engaged scholarship programming at UC Berkeley.Program Admission Procedure:We encourage all graduate students to apply. Completed applications should be sent by Wednesday, October 29, at noon PST to ACES staff, Victoria Robinson (AC Director) and Andrea Wise (Associate Director, Public Service Center) at aces@berkeley.edu.Cover Letter: Graduate students should address the following prompts in 250 words or less: Describe the social justice or community-based work you are involved in and how it connects (or does not connect) to your academic pursuits. What support do you hope to gain from meeting with other peers involved in social justice and community-based work?What impacts do you hope to have after building a community with other graduate students? How might this impact your program, your studies, and your communities? What are two questions you hope to bring to the community?Availability: The group will meet as a cohort throughout the month of November. Although this Doodle poll only lists the first week of November, please mark your answers to indicate your consistent availability throughout the month of November. “I LEARNED SO MUCH. The readings were on FIRE. The readings helped put words and analysis to gut feelings that I've had in academic spaces for a long time.”“This was food for the soul. It helped me feel much more grounded and whole and optimistic about my career path.” ................
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