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Cleanup Day Recaps: November 3rd & 4th, 2023
November 3rd, 2023 Last Friday was a busy day at the Greenway, with both a morning and afternoon cleanup on the schedule. With only three cleanup days left to round out the semester, having a large number of students out on Friday helped to move our progress along quickly! In the morning, two different classes…
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Cleanup Day Recaps: October 26th & 27th, 2023
October 26th, 2023 On Thursday, Dr. Esther Godfrey joined us at the Greenway once again to support another productive day of removing invasives from the trail! October 27th, 2023 On Friday, advisor Amber Puckette joined us for a late afternoon cleanup along with her class of tenacious University 101 students! University 101 students are typically…
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Cleanup Day Recaps: October 23rd & 24th, 2023
October 23rd, 2023 The fall weather continues to make work at the Greenway cooler than ever! On October 23rd, a group of 25 students, joined by SPACE’s leadership team, Lynn and Sam, cleared invasives from a huge swath of land, finally allowing trailgoers to see all the way to the edge of the beautiful stream…
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Cleanup Day Recaps: October 6th & 10th, 2023
On this second week of October, we finally felt things cooling off at the Greenway! With the heat of the summer behind us, the weather was perfect for our work removing overgrown plants from the understory near the trail. As we continue our work at the Greenway with SPACE, we get to walk with students…
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ENGAGE GREEN with SPACE
Last Friday, over 30 students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Upper Chinquapin Greenway in Spartanburg, only a mile from campus, to kick off Upstate’s first ever ENGAGE GREEN Greenway Cleanup day in partnership with Spartanburg Area Conservancy (SPACE). The foundational effort of a multi-year revitalization project, this semester over 11 general education teachers will…
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A very successful National Voter Registration Day on campus!
Over 165 students are newly registered voters and more than 230 students talked with each other about the importance of voting on Tuesday, September 19th, 2023, during Upstate’s National Voter Registration Day event here on campus! This is all thanks to our new Civic Engagement Coordinator, Tammy Pike. By planting the seeds of civic participation…