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Announcement: Summer Learning Abroad Opportunity for Education Majors
Announcement brought to you by the College of Education in partnership with Engage Upstate (The Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement) & the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, US Dept. of Education. Learn in Costa Rica & the Dominican Republic – June 2024 Read below to learn more about an immersive 30-day education, culture,…
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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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Cleanup Day Recap: September 29, 2023
On Friday, Sept 29, over 25 students were joined by instructors Amanda Karls, Dr. Tracey Woodard and Dr. Courtney McDonald to help SPACE with another successful Greenway cleanup! For our second cleanup day on the trail, land manager Lynn Rhodes met our student group and showed them the important work that they are helping with…
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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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2023 Premier Fair Recap
At the Engage Upstate Premier Fair table this year, our VISTAs talked with over 75 students about Service Learning and Community Engagement here on campus. With our newly refreshed table setup, many students stopped to learn more about Engage Upstate, collect SLCE gear, and/or take the survey that we designed specifically for the event. Despite…
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Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Food
A quick shout-out to Symposium organizers, Kim Shorter & Josh Ruppel – together with Jim Shecter, SODEXO Director, Shay Carr in Student Affairs, and multiple students working the welcome table at the Upstate Research Symposium on Friday, 3/31. Thanks to collaboration from all these folks, the leftover breakfast & lunch boxes from the Symposium were…