Opportunities

Honors College Connects (HCC) is a curricular program of the Honors College at George Mason University. It engages students in addressing questions of strategic importance to local nonprofits and government agencies. Through semester-long projects conducted by teams of students, partners gain valuable insights into questions they face and deliverables on which they can take action. 

Our application is now open! We are seeking proposals for the Spring 2024 cycle (end of January - beginning of May). In two sections of a 3-credit course, each 4-5 member student team will spend over 100 hours working on projects for 10 selected nonprofit partners.

You will find that our application process is straightforward and brief, and centers on identifying a current strategic challenge you are contemplating and on which you would like to gain the perspective of a student team.

Our program is an excellent way for you to advance your thinking on a question of strategic importance while helping students gain professional skills and civic engagement experience.

We encourage you to apply at: https://gmu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9RySYHh267Lqf5A

We look forward to seeing your application and hope that our students might have the opportunity to work with you to amplify the good work you do in the community. Our application is open for the next two and half weeks, until Monday, October 30 at 11:59pm.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at hcc@gmu.edu.

Created in 2011, the VA Engage Journal’s mission is to build our collective practical and intellectual capacities for meaningful community engagement by providing a forum in which undergraduate, professional, and graduate students enrolled in colleges and universities across Virginia can share and reflect critically on their own community-engaged experiences and can disseminate knowledge emerging from their engaged practice and research. Click here to learn more about this journal! 

SCHEV is Virginia's coordinating agency for higher education. Its mission is to advocate and promote the development and operation of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to lead state-level strategic planning and policy development and implementation based on research and analysis. SCHEV makes higher education public policy recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly in such areas as capital and operating budget planning, enrollment projections, institutional technology needs, and student financial aid. Click here to learn more about SCHEV. 

The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement is a network that consolidates the value of SLCE for our understanding of the world and communities and has helped launch the scholarship of many brilliant publicly engaged researchers. Click here to learn more about IARSLCE.

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A non-profit educational organization, made up of state-public institutions, private institutions, and higher education member institutions. The ESC’s goal is to collaboratively build strong university-community partnerships in order to build community capacity. Click here to learn more about ESC, their award winning service projects, and how you can get involved. 

The American Educational Research Association focuses on improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results. This Washington DC organization’s members are faculty, researchers, graduate students, and other professionals with educational research experience. This organization executes five key programs; Communications, Education Research, Professional Development and Training, Government Relations, and Social Justice. Click here to learn more about the organization.