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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 Archive: Alternative Spring Break 2020
This article was originally published in 2020. ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK 2020 REMEMBERING THE DAYS BEFORE ENFORCED SOCIAL DISTANCING This Service Story focuses on service completed by 16 students and two staff members in Tampa, FL from March 7-13. Every year, Associate Director of Leadership and Service, Dr. Deb Kladivko works with a student leadership team…
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Service Stories Archive: Communication as Environmental Advocacy (SPCH U347)
This article was originally published in the ’19-’20 academic year. Dr. Renu Pariyadath has been connecting SPCH U347: Environmental Communication classes with her research in both local and global communities since she joined us in Fall 2016. As an environmental advocate, it just made sense for her to bring students into partnership with community organizations…
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Service Stories Archive: Translating Holocaust Documents (GERM U311)
Introduction to German Translation (GERM U311) was taught for the first time in USC Upstate’s history to eight students in Fall 2019. The focus of the course is on the essential goal of the translator, which is to transmit a living voice from one language, culture and moment to another. By using hands-on teaching techniques, students…
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Service Stories Archive: Marketing Communication Plans (MKTG U352)
This article was originally published in the ’19-’20 academic year. Kim Land’s MKTG U352 – Marketing Communications class services six local small businesses or non-profits in our community every semester through extensive research, evaluation and recommendations that are developed into a full Integrated Marketing Communication plan for their business. Since Fall of 2016, Land and…
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Service Stories Archive: Community and Public Health Nursing (NURS U461)
This article was originally published in the ’19-’20 academic year. Students in multiple sections of Community and Public Health Nursing (NURS U461) work with a variety of community partners to explore health issues in our Upstate community. In addition to serving alongside nurses in public schools, in hospice agencies, in home health agencies, and at detention centers, NURSU461…
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Service Stories Archive: December Graduates Who Serve (December 2019)
Upstate students do great things both in the classroom and out. This week’s story highlights the service outside the classroom of three December graduates. Whitley Farmer is a Nursing student and mother who runs an annual coat drive from November through the beginning of January. She credits her recently deceased parents with teaching her to caring,…
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Service Stories Archive: LGBTQ Oral Histories (SOCY U391 / WGST U398)
This article was originally published in Fall 2019. This spring for the third year running, Dr. Lisa Johnson will teach a special topics course which includes an oral history project offering students an opportunity to connect with the LGBTQ community in the upstate of South Carolina, providing the LGBTQ community a means to share their…
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Service Stories Archive: Water Ecology Center reaching local schools and monitoring local streams
USC Upstate’s Watershed Ecology Center, founded by the late Dr. Jack Turner, seeks to promote scientific research on the watershed ecology of the region, community outreach, and educational programming for local schools. The Center reaches children in grades K-8 with hands-on standard based science education at no cost to the schools thanks to the generosity of…
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Service Stories Archive: Jesse Boyd Elementary School and Addressing Reading and Writing Problems (EDRE U444)
Dr. Brooke Hardin’s Addressing Reading and Writing Problems class partners with Jesse Boyd Elementary School. The mission of JBES is to inspire and equip all young people to become lifelong learners and productive community members through a challenging and supportive environment which promotes academic excellence, confidence, and creativity. Dr. Hardin’s service learning project, “We Write…
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