American University

American University will undertake research to expand our understanding of how service corps programs in the U.S. that address climate change affect the people who participate, the communities in which they work, and the environmental outcomes of this work. Researchers will collect data from individual participants, assess the capacity of service corps programs to connect to communities, and develop measures to gauge the environmental benefits of the service corps projects. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)

American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies serves scholars, students, policymakers, and the public by propelling actionable research, providing public education, and promoting a more reasonable public square. This grant will support Phase II of the New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance Program. The New Perspectives program fuels boundary-pushing scholarship as it pertains to the rapidly evolving executive and legislative branches of the U.S. federal government. It does so by providing new research grants and dissemination outlets to scholars pursuing novel research questions from traditionally underrepresented points of view.

Through the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University, this grant will support the OER community through technical assistance on copyright, Creative Commons licensing, and fair use, working to strengthen and complement existing projects while mapping what additional legal resources are needed to enable teaching practices focused on personalization, open pedagogy, and universal design. This helps teachers understand how to take advantage of the flexibility of OER, facilitates a diverse ecosystem of OER, and supports implementation at a system level. (Substrategy: Field Building)