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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Cleanup Day Recap:  September 29, 2023

    Cleanup Day Recap: September 29, 2023

    On Friday, Sept 29, over 25 students were joined by instructors Amanda Karls, Dr. Tracey Woodard and Dr. Courtney McDonald to help SPACE with another…

  • ENGAGE GREEN with SPACE

    ENGAGE GREEN with SPACE

    Last Friday, over 30 students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Upper Chinquapin Greenway in Spartanburg, only a mile from campus, to kick off Upstate’s…

  • 2023 Premier Fair Recap

    2023 Premier Fair Recap

    At the Engage Upstate Premier Fair table this year, our VISTAs talked with over 75 students about Service Learning and Community Engagement here on campus.…

  • Welcome, AmeriCorps VISTA Members!

    Welcome, AmeriCorps VISTA Members!

    Engage Upstate is excited to announce that its team has expanded to include two new members, Sam Reinhardt and Corentez Cannady! Sam and Corentez are…

  • Spartanburg Area Conservancy Volunteer Release and Waiver of Liability

    This Volunteer Release and Waiver of Liability (the “release”) releases Spartanburg Area Conservancy (“SPACE”), a nonprofit corporation organized and existing under the laws of the…

  • Engage Green – Community Service Opportunity

    WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY.  IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, HAVE THEM ANSWERED BEFORE CLICKING “APPROVE” ON THE REGISTRATION PAGE.…

  • SL/CE Spring Showcase

    On Friday, 4/7, from 12:00-2:30, come hear fantastic stories of service happening in SL/CE courses around campus. Following SLCE ‘Best Practice”, this year, we will…

  • Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Food

    A quick shout-out to Symposium organizers, Kim Shorter & Josh Ruppel – together with Jim Shecter, SODEXO Director, Shay Carr in Student Affairs, and multiple…

  • Walk MS Spartanburg 2023 – USC Upstate

    Volunteers (as well as participant fundraisers and donors) are needed for the Walk MS Spartanburg 2023 on Saturday 4/22. Students, staff, faculty, & families are…

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.