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
For Instructors: Celebrations & awards, Learn service learning strategies, and Sign Up to collaborate with community partners
For Students: Find opportunities, Get Involved with activities, Learn about internships for good, and more.
Service Stories: Learn more about the powerful work of Spartans in our community.
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Barbara Holland Workshop
October 5, 2021 @ 2:30. Register to receive meeting link & submit questions Internationally known community engagement expert Dr. Barbara Holland will join us on October 5th for a virtual conversation. Dr. Holland co-founded our new Collaboratory Community Engagement (CE) data repository. She will share her insight and ideas about community engagement work in a…
-
Carnegie Engaged Campus Initiative
USC Upstate has sought to serve our community for more than 50 years. We seek to transform the lives of our diverse students, their families, and communities – advancing social and economic mobility throughout the Upstate region. To promote institution-wide collaboration in this effort, we are pursuing the Carnegie Community Engagement (CE) Classification. The Carnegie…
-
Collaboratory
Seeking to better understand our combined institutional and individual community engaged efforts, USC Upstate has invested in Collaboratory, a community engagement data tracking system. Collaboratory empowers universities understand their community engagement and public service activities. Collaboratory also makes this data publicly searchable. Faculty and staff report community engaged curricular, co-curricular activities, service and engaged research…
-
SPREAD AWARENESS, NOT DISEASE
Spreading Awareness of Infectious Diseases and Methods of Disease Control Students in Dr. Ginny Webb’s Microbiology course (BIOL U330) aim to spread awareness of various infectious diseases and methods of disease control. They regularly partner with Oakland Elementary School where microbiology students teach hands-on lessons to kindergarten students about disease transmission and hand washing. The…
This blog is run by the Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement.
Learn more about our Engage Upstate initiative and the blog on our About Us page.