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2019-2020 Annual Report 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 1 TABLE of CONTENTS 3 Overview The W illiam & M ar y 5 Scholarship Fund W ashingt on Cent er 6 Academics w ill t hr ive as an 11 Academic Future int egral par t of t he 13 Events gr eat er W&M 15 Finances communit y, boldly 17 Highlights pr oducing innovat ive 19 On to Next Year oppor t unit ies f or all. 2 OVERVIEW WASHINGTON CENTER 2019-2020 2019-2020 was a great year for the D.C. Semester Program students W&M Washington Center. Picking were able to engage with up from the summer?s Listening internships, speakers, and alumni Campaign, the Center?s five around the topic ?International priorities took hold: Commercial Diplomacy". Following the fall semester, the D.C. Winter 1. Integrate with the Seminars enrolled a record 76 University students in three courses for a 2. Be Visible robust and energizing start to the 3. Increase Communications new year. with the University 4. Create Equitable and Clear Although the year started like any Opportunities for Faculty in other year, by March we began to D.C. experience incredible change in the 5. Reconsider the D.C. world, the country, higher Semester Program Model education, William & Mary, and certainly the Washington Center as These priorities guided our work well. Throughout the spring and and allowed the Center to form continuing into the summer, the stronger connections with partners Washington Center has worked on campus, engage in collaboratively to support university-wide thinking, and university-wide needs and values develop innovative practices within while also pivoting our own our daily operations. A complete programs and practices to serve our summary may be found here: students and alumni. The road has www.wm.edu/dc/listening. been interesting, but we have As the school year started, the learned a great deal about what we Washington Center was pleased to can accomplish when we are offer the first-ever innovative and integrated with the Business-themed semester. university. Featuring Professor Don Rahtz, the 3 The Washington Center followed Squad of the Career university policies during pandemic Pathways Team and, like most offices, did some - Erin also began serving on pivoting in order to offer safe and the Staff Assembly quality academic programming. - Roxane also continued her Most notably, our D.C. Summer service on the Studio for Institutes moved from in-person to Teaching and Learning online, and despite the shift, Innovation Advisory Council students who participated shared with us that they had a fulfilling and To help serve students, alumni, and inspiring experience, complete with staff impacted by pandemic and the opportunities to learn from shift to a more remote world, the incredible speakers and network Washington Center was pleased to with alumni. The three faculty who offer innovative opportunities for taught (Tim Barnard, Jaime Settle, our community to engage, including: Drew Stelljes) did an incredible job - Twice weekly ?Corona and we are grateful for their Coffee Conversations? in tremendous efforts. The D.C. April and May Summer Session classes, which are - Five online events for typically hybrid, also moved to be alumni and students entirely online and feature new - An online internship course faculty and course topics not open to all students previously offered in the Center. Students will continue to enroll Finally, in early June, along with through early July, and interest has many others, the Washington been positive. Center shared a statement condemning racism and injustice in Since the Washington Center has our country: always operated ?remotely? from www.wm.edu/dc/message. Our the main campus in Williamsburg, commitment to continuing this the team?s own transition to important work will be seen in work teleworking was not a shock. In fact, we do over the next year and opportunities for the team to beyond, as we have pledged to engage with the university increased prioritize anti-racist practices in all significantly between March-June of our endeavors and elevate Black 2020: voices. - Rhys Tucker began serving We know everyone has been on the External impacted by the COVID-19 Communications Squad of pandemic in countless ways, and in the Unified closing the year in review, we offer Communications Team our sincere sympathies to the many - Roxane Adler Hickey began families and friends who have lost serving as the Alumni loved ones over the past few Engagement Squad leader months. for the Career Pathways Team - Erin Battle began serving on the Faculty Engagement 4 THE STUDY IN D.C. SCHOLARSHIP FUND The Cent er aw ar ded 21 scholar ships f or a t ot al of $52,487 in aid. After awarding the summer 2020 scholarships, there is $61,665.34 available in scholarship funding for Study in D.C. students. (Figure represents total remaining gifts from one annual fund and two scholarship funds). Additionally, beginning this year, we are thrilled to start awarding scholarships to our first Patrice & Jim Comey fellows, whose experience will be funded by our inaugural endowment from W&M alumni Patrice Comey ?82 and Jim Comey ?82. NOTE: In March, when the pandemic forced us to move DCSI online, we gave students the opportunity to withdraw at no cost. Among those who opted out were three scholarship awardees. As a result, $12,800 in scholarships went unused, bringing the final count to: 18 scholarships, for a total of $39,687 in aid. 5 ACADEM ICS: D.C. SEMESTER PROGRAM 2019-2020 IN REVIEW FALL 2019 - Theme: International Commercial Diplomacy - Professor: Don Rahtz, Mason School of Business - Enrolled students: 9 - Sample of Internships: - Women for Women, U.S. Department of State, Washington International Trade Association, Civic LLC, American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Department of Justice, Asia Foundation, Bipartisan Policy Center - Sample class speakers/site visits and alumni mentor organizations: - Accenture, Deloitte, Public International Law & Policy Group, Dataminr, U.S. GAO, multiple international embassies, Microsoft, U.S.-China Business Council, U.S. Navy Museum "From watching the sunset over the city to working at the State Department, my Semester students cheering on the World Champion Washington Nationals time in D.C. was better than I SPRING 2020 could have imagined!" We did not receive enough student interest to run the D.C. - Riley Busbee '21 Semester Program. Instead, we focused our efforts on reorganizing the outdated program to better suit the needs D.C. Semester Program, Fall 2020 and wants of students today. The new D.C. Semester Program will be introduced in spring 2021. 6 ACADEM ICS: D.C. WINTER SEMINARS 2019-2020 IN REVIEW Topic: Public Health: Health Equity, Sustainability and Well-Being in a Global Age - Professors: Sarah Menefee and Alison Scott, Kinesiology and Health Sciences Department - Enrolled students: 33 - Sample class speakers/site visits: - Whitman Walker Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Senator Tim Kaine (VA), The Arc of D.C., National Association of Medicaid Directors, Bread for the City Urban Education students with young alumni teachers Topic: Urban Education: Policy, Practice, and Leadership Topic: International Relations: U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century - Professor, Drew Stelljes, School of Education - Enrolled students: 26 - Professor: Amy Oakes, Government Department - Sample class speakers/site visits: - Enrolled students: 17 - D.C. Public Schools, The Literacy Lab, The - Sample class speakers/site visits: Dream Project, Department of Education, KIPP - Hudson Institute, National Counterterrorism D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Center, U.S. Department of State, Council on Education Foreign Relations, Heritage Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Students and alumni at the D.C. Winter Seminars Speed Networking Reception 7 ACADEM ICS: D.C. SUMMER INSTITUTES 2019-2020 IN REVIEW In response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the D.C. Topic: Leadership & Community Engagement Summer Institutes moved to a completely online format, - Professor: Drew Stelljes, School of Education including remote internships. The two-week speaker/site - 17 students visit course was conducted via Zoom and included the - Sample of Internships: same opportunities as it would in-person, thanks to our - Volunteers of America, Generation Hope, gracious alumni and talented faculty. Global Water Challenge, Death Penalty Information Center, Center for Economic and Social Justice, Brady: United Against Gun Violence - Sample class speakers/site visits and alumni mentor organizations: - Civic, ImpactMakers, Special Olympics, Building Tomorrow, EdConnective, James Comey ?82 Topic: News & Media - Professor: Tim Barnard, Film & Media Studies Department 2020 News & Media students at the Entertainment Software - 7 students Association - A sample of Internships: - J6 Labs, StoryFit, Armed Services Arts Topic: American Politics Partnership, WashingtonExec, Attic Light Films - Professor: Jaime Settle, Government Department - Sample class speakers/site visits and alumni mentor - 12 students organizations: - Sample of Internships: - Paula Reid ?05, CBS News, American Film - D.C. Witness, Myers for Governor, The Dream Institute, The Intercept, Discovery, POLITICO, Project, Stimson Center, Solar United C-SPAN Neighbors, Trammell & Company - Sample class speakers/site visits and alumni mentor organizations: - Jen Psaki '00, former White House Director of Communications, Sen. Tim Kaine, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Charles Koch Foundation, Pew Research Center 8 ACADEM ICS: D.C. SUMMER SESSION 2019-2020 IN REVIEW Like the D.C. Summer Institutes, we were able to pivot to allow 2020 D.C. Summer Session to be conducted completely online. We were able to replicate the speaker series as well as the networking receptions with great student feedback. SESSION I SESSION II Topic: From Protest to Policy: Gender in Political Process Topic: Courageous Leadership - Professor: Claire McKinney, Government and - Professor: Drew Stelljes School of Education Gender, Sexuality & Women Studies Departments - Students: 24* - Students: 16 - Sample class speakers and alumni networking - Sample class speakers and alumni networking attendees: attendees: - D.C.
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