David Goldstein organizes international seminar on community engagement

IAS faculty member David Goldstein, along with Natalia Dyba, UW Bothell Director of Global Initiatives, and Kara Adams, Director of Community Engagement, planned and participated in an online, international Seminar on Community Engagement in which UW Bothell and California Polytechnic University, Pomona, joined host Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan, to discuss the ethics of university partnerships with community members.

After Adams described the landscape of community engagement at UW Bothell, Dr. Mabel Ezeonwu, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, described her partnership with the Health Services Delivery Project in Guatemala, and Dr. Steve Collins, Associate Professor in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, discussed the “Citizen Engineer” project he has led for several years in which mechanical engineering students learn moral theory and applied ethics in solving technological problems. The three universities hope to expand the seminar in future years.