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Faculty Focus: Celebration of Community in Education
Let’ s Celebrate! Join us for our 2024 Engage Upstate – Celebration of Community in Education. Thursday, April 4 from 3:00-5:00 in the Smith Boardroom of the Health Education Complex. BUT FIRST, we need applications & nominations. Please apply for one or more awards for yourself! Nominate a colleague, student, &/or community partner. Changes for…
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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: 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: Alternative Spring Break 2020
This article was originally published in 2020. ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK 2020 REMEMBERING THE DAYS BEFORE ENFORCED SOCIAL DISTANCING This Service Story focuses on service completed by 16 students and two staff members in Tampa, FL from March 7-13. Every year, Associate Director of Leadership and Service, Dr. Deb Kladivko works with a student leadership team…
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Engage Green Recap – Fall ’23
The point in a service project is to help those around you or even just help beautify where you live. Although you are going into the service expecting to help someone or something, you come out helping yourself just as much. Take the time and do a good deed because I promise it will be…