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
SLCE For Instructors: celebrations & awards, professional development opportunities, and ways we can collaborate to better reach our students and our community
Student UPdates: service opportunities, activity recaps, new project announcements, and more.
Service Stories highlight the powerful work of Spartans with our community partners.
Recent Posts
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SL/CE Development & Support
Upcoming & recorded professional development opportunities. An invitation to hear students’ voices at this year’s USC Upstate Research Symposium. And reminders of how OSL/CE supports officially designated SL, SE, & CE courses. SL/CE Course ShowcaseFriday, 4/1; CLC 309; Lunch @ 11:45, Sessions @ 12. Check out the related blog post! Come hear stories from your…
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SL/CE Roundtable
Join us Tuesday, February 1 from 2:30-3:30 for a roundtable discussion with some of Upstate’s SL/CE stars. Join Michele Covington (Criminal Justice), Tasha Thomas (English), and Ginny Webb (Biology) in discussing their favorite SL/CE projects, retention & SL/CE, and MORE! We’ve shifted to virtual format. Join us via Bb or dial in @ 571-392-7650 using…
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Collaboratory Update & Participation Award Drawing
Maria Montesó and Ron Patane have each won $50 Upstate Bookstore gift cards in our first Collaboratory Participation Award Drawing. Each month this spring, two $50 Upstate Bookstore gift cards will be awarded to randomly selected faculty & staff who own one or more published community engagement activities in Collaboratory. At the Reimagine Summit, a…
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SL/CE & Retention: What the Research Shows
Retention is a natural component of service-learning. We have long known that students persist and achieve better when they are actively engaged in their learning, rather than being passive recipients of imparted knowledge (Astin, 1992, Kuh, 2005, Tinto 2006). Service-learning offers transformational experiences (Eyler & Giles, 1999) by placing students in a constant state of…
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SL/CE Updates & Support
Following some lean SL/CE during the uncertainty of COVID, we have 23 courses registered as Service Learning, Service Engagement, or Community Engagement this Spring! We are delighted to be growing back toward offering our students a wide array of retention enhancing, meaning-filled, and career-skill focused opportunities to interact with our community on a reciprocal basis.…
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Workshop Invitation – Getting started with SL/CE
Join us Tuesday, November 2 from 2:30-3:30 for a Getting Started with SL/CE workshop. We’re celebrating our new normal with a (safely socially distanced) face-to-face conversation. Planned topics include: NEW Community-Engaged course designationSL/CE as a RETENTION strategy Of course, you are encouraged to bring any thoughts, ideas, and or questions you may have relating to…
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SL/CE Course Reallocation Winner
Congratulations to Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, the winner of our first-ever SL/CE Course Reallocation award! Dr. Hernandez-Laroche’s approach to service-learning has been interdisciplinary and collaborative blending French with Criminal Justice, Sociology, Global Studies, and the Honors College in Global Migration in the 21st Century and The Twin Ills of Terrorism & Torture: A Global Perspective both co-taught…
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NEW: CE Course Designation (Community Engagement)
Recognizing transformative experiences may occur when students interact in our community without doing service, the Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement is happy to introduce the “CE” (Community Engagement) course designation to complement SE (Service Engagement) and SL (Service Learning). Course offerings that involve active and authentic connections to the community may qualify for…
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Collaboratory – October Update
Our quest to capture the amazing community-engaged activities happening across campus continues with our efforts to populate Collaboratory, our new community engagement tracking system. At time of this writing, we have 64 activities in the database with most entries associated with the Department of Languages, Literature, and Composition. Equity, diversity, and inclusion is our most…
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SL/CE Course Reallocation
This program will award up to $2,500 to the faculty member’s department to hire an adjunct instructor who will teach a non-SL/CE course that the faculty member would have been teaching. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Provost’s Office in making this reallocation available. What’s the timeline? Applications Due: September 30Spring 2022: 1 course…
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