Tag: Community Engagement

  • Service Stories Archive: Alternative Spring Break 2020

    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…

  • Service Stories Archive: Spread Awareness, Not Disease

    Service Stories Archive: Spread Awareness, Not Disease

    This article was originally published in 2020. Spreading Awareness of Various Infectious Diseases and Methods of Disease Control Students in Dr. Ginny Webb’s Microbiology course (BIOL U330) aim to spread awareness of various infectious diseases and methods of disease control. They regularly partner with Oakland Elementary School where microbiology students teach hands-on lessons to kindergarten…

  • Service Stories Archive: College of Nursing Virtual Outreach

    Service Stories Archive: College of Nursing Virtual Outreach

    Serving the Upstate during the COVID-19 Pandemic Senior Nursing Instructor, Latasha Gooden with the support of the Mary Black College of Nursing, has partnered with the Charles Lea Center and Palladium Hospice & Palliative Care to initiate the COVID-19 Virtual Interaction Outreach program. From May 2020, the program has provided nursing students and faculty volunteers the opportunity to virtually connect…

  • Service Stories Archive: Water Ecology Center reaching local schools and monitoring local streams

    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…

  • 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…

  • Service Stories Archive: Community and Public Health Nursing (NURS U461)

    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…