Engage Upstate

Year: 2025

  • Save the Date: Serve and Shine!

    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…

  • Spartanburg Certified Volunteer Program

    Looking for an opportunity to give back to our community? Need to build up service hours for your club, organization, or resume? Want to encourage yourself and/or others to get more involved in our community? The Spartanburg Certified Volunteer Program makes it easy to get involved and give back. Our database connects participants with volunteer…

  • Check Out the Spring 2026 Schedule of Service-Learning Courses

    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…

  • Engage Upstate Spotlight: Bringing Local History to Life

    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…

  • Engage Upstate Spotlight: Printmaking and Its Impact

    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…

  • Community Engagement 2024: A Year in Review

    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,…