Welcome to Engage Upstate

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

On the SLCE For Instructors page, you’ll find helpful information about SLCE for faculty, such as celebrations & awards, professional development opportunities, and ways we can collaborate to better reach our students and our community!

Student UPdates is the home of content for our student audience, including service opportunities, activity recaps, new project announcements, and more.

Service Stories center around the theme “we care and are doing something about it.” Topics & styles vary. SLCE enthusiasts are invited to author their own stories and can submit a story for our blog by contacting us here. Stories matter!

Recent Posts

  • Spring ’25 Class List

    Spring ’25 Class List

    Engage Upstate is excited to announce ~50 SL/CE opportunities for Spring 2025.Build career skills, support our community, and do something real! Course numbers and names…

  • Service Learning and Community Engagement News – November 2024

    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…

  • Computer Science, SL/CE Classes Spring ’25

    Computer Science, SL/CE Classes Spring ’25

    Engage Upstate is excited to announce ~35 SL/CE opportunities for Spring 2025.Build career skills, support our community, and do something real! Course numbers and names…

  • Behavioral Sciences, SL/CE Classes Spring ’25

    Behavioral Sciences, SL/CE Classes Spring ’25

    Engage Upstate is excited to announce ~35SL/CE opportunities for Spring 2025.Build career skills, support our community, and do something real! Course numbers and names are…

  • Arts & Comm. SL/CE Classes Spring ’25

    Arts & Comm. SL/CE Classes Spring ’25

    Engage Upstate is excited to announce ~35 SL/CE opportunities for Spring 2025.Build career skills, support our community, and do something real! Course numbers and names…

  • Rebuilding our space with Spartanburg Area Conservancy

    Rebuilding our space with Spartanburg Area Conservancy

    Edit 11/06/2024: Our Engage Green program wraps up for the semester this month, but check out SPACE’s social media for announcements about ongoing volunteer events…

  • Sam Reinhardt, Community Engagement Specialist

    Sam Reinhardt, United Way of the Piedmont’s AmeriCorps VISTA of the year 2023-24 will be joining us as our new Community Engagement Specialist. She will…

  • Spring Retrospective – One Year of ENGAGE GREEN with SPACE

    Spring Retrospective – One Year of ENGAGE GREEN with SPACE

    Now that the Spring semester has concluded (and along with it, our first successful year of Engage Green), we have had over 300 students serve for 1200 hours at the Upper Chinquapin Greenway, with many of those students choosing to participate more than once!

  • Recap: Celebration of Community Engaged Education 2024

    Recap: Celebration of Community Engaged Education 2024

    Edit April 18, 2024: This post has been updated to recap our 2024 Celebration of Community Engaged Education event, where we celebrated esteemed community partners…

  • Engage Upstate Boot Camp – Summer 2024

    Engage Upstate Boot Camp – Summer 2024

    In Fall, our first Engage Green instructor cohort led 238 students to blend course content with contributing more than 700 hours serving with the Spartanburg…

  • Fall ’24 Class List

    Fall ’24 Class List

    Put your learning into action. We are excited to announce ~40 SL/CE courses for Fall 2024.Build career skills, support our community, and do something real!…

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.