{"id":18,"date":"2021-09-09T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:52:00","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" class=\"wp-image-25\" style=\"width: 250px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OSLCE.png\" alt=\"Students, Faculty, and Community. Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OSLCE.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OSLCE-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>The Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement (OSL\/CE) was established in 2015 as a forum that cultivates strong reciprocal relationships between USC Upstate faculty, students and community organizations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At USC Upstate, we define service learning as teaching and learning that blends service with credit-bearing courses, derives from a need in the community, defined by a community partner, founded on disciplinary content, and incorporating deep reflection. We define community engagement as collaboration with our larger community (local, regional\/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources to address critical community issues in a context of partnership and reciprocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, SL\/CE at USC Upstate seeks to enrich scholarship, research&nbsp;and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Contact Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: engageupstate@uscupstate.edu<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement (OSL\/CE) was established in 2015 as a forum that cultivates strong reciprocal relationships between USC Upstate faculty, students and community organizations.&nbsp; At USC Upstate, we define service learning as teaching and learning that blends service with credit-bearing courses, derives from a need in the community, defined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}