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Here you’ll find stories about SL/CE at Upstate. The topics will vary. The style will vary. The authors will vary. The core message will always be: “we care and are doing something about it.” <see also our SL/CE Updates>
- Engage Upstate Spotlight: Bringing Local History to LifeTammy 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 Society. In her HIST U325 course, Women in the US Since 1865, students transcribed archived… Read more: Engage Upstate Spotlight: Bringing Local History to Life
- Engage Upstate Spotlight: Printmaking and Its ImpactArt 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… Read more: Engage Upstate Spotlight: Printmaking and Its Impact
- Community Engagement 2024: A Year in ReviewDespite 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,… Read more: Community Engagement 2024: A Year in Review