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Subject: [LeDroitPark] Howard University Community Connection
Newsletter- Sept. 2018
WELCOME TO
THE COMMUNITY CONNECTION!
Greetings
Neighbors,
The Howard
Community Connections newsletter keeps you informed about the major
events and activities taking place on and around our campus. As
we welcome our students back to campus this fall semester,
please check out some of our summer activities and what you can
look forward to this fall.
In Truth
and Service,
Valarie
Turner, Ph.D.
Director, Office
of Off-Campus Housing and Community Engagement
Maybelle
Taylor Bennett
Director, Howard
University Community Association
Sheena J.
Ogee
Howard
University Community Association
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Howard University Day of Service
Howard University students participated in what has become an
annual ritual of service to the community in its sixth annual Day
of Service Program on Friday, August 17, 2018. In keeping with the
University’s motto:
Excellence in Truth and Service, current Howard
University students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni
volunteered along with incoming students in human service
agencies and schools across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
The Day of Service was sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the
Chapel.
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Howard University in the Summertime
Local Filmmakers Screen “Brick by
Brick” and “What
Happened 2 Chocolate City”
On July 20th,
local filmmakers showed two documentary films about gentrification
in Washington, D.C. Shirikiana Aina, Howard alumna and
co-owner of Sankofa Video, Books and Café screened her film “Brick by Brick”
about the damaging effects of displacement on people of color in
1970s Washington. Mignotae Kebede, writer and director of “What Happened 2
Chocolate City,” along with her Director of
Photography, Mensa Johnson, screened her film which examined the
same phenomenon of gentrification in 2018 through the experiences
of three D.C. residents. The event was sponsored by District
Bridges’ Lower Georgia Avenue Main Street program and took place on
Howard’s Upper Georgia Avenue parking lot where Howard staff and
students and neighborhood residents gathered and Georgia Avenue
shops were able to get a little more business. A panel
discussion preceded the film showing and some 65 people from the
neighborhood were in attendance. “What Happened 2 Chocolate City”
is still a work in progress and for more information or to help the
filmmaker complete this project, visit: https://bit.ly/2PLqzbl
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Ernest Everett Just Court Dedication and LeDroit Park
Civic Association Block Party
On Sunday, August 18th, the LeDroit Park Civic
Association cut the ribbon for the naming of the Ernest Everett Just
Court, located between “T” Street and Florida Avenue in the LeDroit
Park neighborhood at their block party. Howard University supported
the naming of this court, named for Howard’s own faculty member, Dr.
Ernest Everett Just, renown biologist, and one of the founders of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Dr. Just lived on “T” Street next
door to what later became the residence of the late Walter
Washington, the first 20th century elected Mayor of the
District of Columbia. The Court is being named so that the
residents who live within that Court can have a formal address to
which their mail can be delivered.
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College of
Nursing & Allied Health Gets New Temporary Home
In January 2018, Howard University experienced a campus-wide
critical systems failure related to our central steam plant and its
associated infrastructure. This event caused damage to several
campus buildings. Among the most severely affected
locations were the two buildings that house the College of Nursing
and Allied Health Sciences (CNAHS)–Annex I and Annex II. Damage to
the Annex buildings was so extensive that the University has been
required to completely evacuate and temporarily shut down these
facilities.
The College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences will need to
continue to operate its eight stellar academic programs while
longer-term solutions are devised and implemented to return the
School to an appropriate permanent home. To facilitate this, the
University has created new classrooms in brand-new
state-of-the-art modular units located on the Banneker North
Parking Lot at 2525 Sherman Ave, NW.
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HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
OUTREACH CALENDAR
September
8
Geriatrics
Department at Saint Gabriel's Catholic Church
10 am – 3 pm
26 Grant Circle N.W.
Washington, DC
September
12
HUH
Volunteer Orientation
3 pm – 5 pm
W. Lester Henry (Tower) Auditorium
Howard University Hospital
September
13-15
Health
Pavilion - Congressional Black Caucus
Hosted by Howard University Hospital
September 13: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
September 14: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
September 15: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Washington Convention Center
1000 Vermont Ave., N.W., Hall E
Washington, DC
September
19
HUH Sleep
Center 10th Anniversary Open-House
9 am to 3 pm
Howard University Hospital
September
15
STOMP
OUT - Sickle Cell Move-On Event
8:30 am – 12 Noon
Howard University Hospital Front Plaza
Hosted by the Howard University Center on Sickle Cell Disease
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OFFICE
OF OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (OCHCE)
Community
Complaint Protocol – If you need to report a
Howard University student-related community disturbance or
concern that creates a nuisance and is ongoing, here are some
actions you can take:
- If crime related,
contact Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) at 911
- If a Howard
student(s) is involved, MPD will contact Howard University
Police Department (HUPD) to request back-up, if needed.
- MPD will
coordinate with HUPD to share information.
- HUPD will
document information to share with OCHCE and the Office of
Student Conduct.
- OCHCE will
contact reporting party and alleged student violator(s)
within 1 business day.
- OCHCE will summon
student to meet HU staff within 3-5 business days.
- Mediation
conference with student will be held; behavior warning
notification will be issued. Repeat violators will be
referred to the Office of Student Conduct for disciplinary
action.
- OCHCE
acknowledgement follow up to complainant*
* Any
specific disciplinary actions will not be revealed due to the HU
privacy policy.
If you
have any questions or concerns, contact OCHCE at (202) 806-9216
or e-mail us at: offcampushousing@howard.edu
Interested
in leasing your property to a Howard University student, staff or
faculty member, visit OCHCE’s website at: http://howard.offcampuspartners.com
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