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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,…
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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…