Author: Sam Reinhardt

  • 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 and members of our faculty, staff, and student body who have gone above and beyond in their commitment to service within the Upstate. Find original event and program information at…

  • Call for Student Nominations:  2024 Community Engagement in Education Awards

    Call for Student Nominations: 2024 Community Engagement in Education Awards

    Do you know a student who has done outstanding work in their SL/CE courses this semester? Give them a chance to be recognized with an award at our 2024 Celebration of Community Engaged Education! Read on for event details and full nomination instructions for student awards. For faculty/staff and community partner award information, click here.…

  • Volunteer with SPACE on MLK Day of Service

    Volunteer with SPACE on MLK Day of Service

    Sign up here! The Spartanburg Area Conservancy (SPACE) is hosting a volunteer work day at the Upper Chinquapin Greenway on Monday, January 15 for this year’s MLK Day of Service, and we would like to extend the invitation to attend to any and all interested faculty, staff, and students! USC Upstate will provide transportation via shuttle…

  • Service Stories Archive: Marketing Communication Plans (MKTG U352)

    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…

  • Service Stories Archive:  LGBTQ Oral Histories (SOCY U391 / WGST U398)

    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…