Service Learning & Community Engagement @ USC Upstate.
Show me, and I will forget. Teach me, and I will remember. Involve me, and I will learn.
Chinese proverb
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Service Stories highlight the powerful work of Spartans with our community partners.
Recent Posts
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Save the Date: Serve and Shine!
Students and faculty are invited to our Serve and Shine event on Thursday, November 13th, from 11:30am to 2:30pm in the Campus Life Center (3rd floor). A lunch buffet with networking friendly food is available for attendees. Join us to look at upcoming service-learning opportunities and make sure to save the date so you don’t…
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Check Out the Spring 2026 Schedule of Service-Learning Courses
This Spring, lots of new and exciting service learning opportunities will be available! Below faculty and students can find a list of Service Learning and Community Engagement (SL/CE) courses. These courses give students an opportunity to work with their communities and learn hands-on skills that they can apply to their careers. Find more information on…
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Engage Upstate Spotlight: Bringing Local History to Life
Tammy Pike, senior instructor of history, has woven South Carolina women’s history into her Service Learning courses in a way that brings local history to life. Pike has established a significant partnership with Joe Hursey, historian at the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society. In her HIST U325 course, Women in the US Since 1865, students transcribed…
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Engage Upstate Spotlight: Printmaking and Its Impact
Art has always been an important part of the Upstate’s cultural identity, both on and off campus. Statues and murals scattered throughout downtown Spartanburg and pieces throughout Upstate’s campus show this clearly. This especially holds true in Professor Freda Sue’s printmaking classes (ARTS U207 and ARTS U307) where students are reaching out to their communities…
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Community Engagement 2024: A Year in Review
Despite Hurricane Helene imposing her will on Spartanburg and the areas surrounding the Upstate, community engagement events post-storm have been successful and have given a sense of perseverance and resolve. Making landfall September 26th and bringing the region to a halt with countless downed powerlines, incapacitated roads, hundreds of thousands without power for a week,…
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Fall 2025 Courses Engage Students with Non-Profits and Community Partners
This fall, students in 35 courses and 71 unique sections are participating in Service Learning and Community Engagement (SL/CE) opportunities with community partners throughout the Upstate and beyond. Through these courses, students gain hands-on experience applying skills they learn in class to solve problems and meet community needs. Find more information on these courses by…
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Marketing/PR Intern for Engage Upstate
About the Internship Site Engage Upstate (AKA Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement) works with instructors and community partners to infuse academic courses with meaningful real-world service projects. The service projects are designed to get students out into their communities while tying course concepts to their out of class experiences and honing career readiness…
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Service Learning and Community Engagement News – November 2024
In this edition… find out which of our 40+ new Spring ’25 SL/CE courses are right for you, meet the new Engage Upstate team, and see what community engagement events are in store for November! Via the USC Upstate Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Announcing: 40+ New SL/CE courses for Spring ’25! With…
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Introducing Engage Upstate’s two new VISTAs and new C.E. Coordinator
After successfully partnering as a host site for the United Way of the Piedmont’s VISTA program last year, we are happy to announce two new VISTAs will be joining our team for the 2024-2025 academic year: Matt Hagen and Horace McCollin! We are also happy to announce that our previous VISTA, Sam Reinhardt, will be…
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