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Save the Date: Serve and Shine!
Students and faculty are invited to our Serve and Shine event on Thursday, November 13th, from 11:30am to 2:30pm in the Campus Life Center (3rd floor). A lunch buffet with networking friendly food is available for attendees. Join us to look at upcoming service-learning opportunities and make sure to save the date so you don’t…
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Engage Upstate Spotlight: Bringing Local History to Life
Tammy Pike, senior instructor of history, has woven South Carolina women’s history into her Service Learning courses in a way that brings local history to life. Pike has established a significant partnership with Joe Hursey, historian at the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society. In her HIST U325 course, Women in the US Since 1865, students transcribed…
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Engage Upstate Spotlight: Printmaking and Its Impact
Art has always been an important part of the Upstate’s cultural identity, both on and off campus. Statues and murals scattered throughout downtown Spartanburg and pieces throughout Upstate’s campus show this clearly. This especially holds true in Professor Freda Sue’s printmaking classes (ARTS U207 and ARTS U307) where students are reaching out to their communities…
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Community Engagement 2024: A Year in Review
Despite Hurricane Helene imposing her will on Spartanburg and the areas surrounding the Upstate, community engagement events post-storm have been successful and have given a sense of perseverance and resolve. Making landfall September 26th and bringing the region to a halt with countless downed powerlines, incapacitated roads, hundreds of thousands without power for a week,…