The Association of Community-Engaged Scholars (ACES), a student-led organization, supports the community-engaged research and teaching efforts of UW–Madison graduate students from any department. ACES strives to be a central meeting point and resource hub for graduate students professionally active in their communities, no matter their prior experience with community-engaged work.
Among other things, we provide professional development opportunities, online resources, project feedback, and networking events. A growing network, ACES is organized and driven by its graduate student members.
Navigating Intersecting Identities in Community-Based Scholarship: Exploring Roles, Tensions, and Possibilities
Friday, March 7
12:30pm-1:30pm
TBA
Tracey Bullington is a PhD candidate in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her dissertation project investigates writing and composing practices within one fifth grade classroom and asks how students negotiate among various modes of meaning making including drawing, oral storytelling, alphabetic writing, and more. Tracey inhabited multiple identities throughout this project including researcher, co-teacher, and artist. This informal talk explores the tensions and possibilities of multiple, conflicting roles within qualitative research.
The Morgridge Center is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. Please contact Cory Sprinkel (sprinkel@wisc.edu) to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
Every university resides in a community. Whether a small town or large city, universities are surrounded by homes, businesses, schools, community centers, theaters–people’s lives. Collaborating with citizens in these spaces to help improve them has historically been one of the primary purposes of higher education in the United States, yet is one we often overlook today.
Community-engaged Scholarship (CES) helps bridge this gap by fostering sustainable partnerships between university faculty, staff, and students with local citizens and organizations to address real community concerns. CES can be primarily a research (Community-based Research or CBR) or educational (Community-based Learning or CBL) tool, but is always a way to bring university resources and local, lived expertise together to create powerfully practical responses to real needs.
Social gatherings: ACES hosts regular social meetups on and off campus for the AGES community. Often featuring ice cream at the Terrace, these meetups are a great way to connect with graduate students across campus, learn about opportunities and events, and build community with other engaged scholars.
Podcast club: ACES hosted a podcast club to learn about and discuss community-engaged themes and organizations beyond UW campus. Podcasts discussed include: The Black Panthers and Public Health (by Sawbones), detailing how the Black Panthers advocated for medical research and created public health programs that sought to make life better for all black and oppressed people; and The Power of Experience with Caroline Gottschalk Druschke (Human Powered), a Wisconsin humanities podcast exploring the impacts of the 2018 flood on rural communities.
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Interim Assistant Director of Community-Engaged Scholarship Cory Sprinkel: sprinkel@wisc.edu