Two years after a successful Community Engagement reclassification from the American Council on Education, UNCG continues to make strides to live fully into one of our university mottos, “Find your community here.” A valuable part of the self-study process for reclassification was the gift of learning how UNCG can continue to improve its community engagement efforts. At… Continue reading…
We are celebrating the newest cohort of the Community-Engaged Pathways and Partnerships (P2): A Collective Scholarship Fellows Program! Community and UNCG partners will be collaborating on the following initiatives over the next three years: A Community Comes Together: Supporting Integration of Newly Arrived Congolese Refugees through Empowerment and Facilitating Young… Continue reading…
The Center for New North Carolinians has received the 2021 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award for its work towards transforming refugee and immigrant services as well as its scholarship about issues facing these communities. “This is an exciting opportunity for the CNNC’s work to be nationally recognized and… Continue reading…
Dr. Marianne LeGreco, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, has received the IARSLCE Public Scholarship Award for her work grounded in community-engaged approaches to building communication infrastructure around food. We applaud Dr. LeGreco for her demonstrated commitment to community-engaged scholarship!! Click here for the full story.
A three-year partnership between the Industries of the Blind and students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts has produced six larger-than-life paintings scrolled out across the building’s once bare exterior. A project of the P2 Fellows Program, the paintings amplify the triumphs and struggles of the Industries of… Continue reading…
Dear ICEE friends and colleagues, We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sonalini Sapra (she/her/hers) as the new assistant director for UNCG’s Institute for Community and Economic Engagement (ICEE)! Many of you may already have collaborated with Sonalini as she is a valued member of our Greensboro community. She brings her… Continue reading…
How can databases help us track and measure community engagement and public service? What indicators can serve as “pulse points” to help us understand, operationalize, and encourage reciprocity (as distinct from mutual benefit) within our partnerships and across our institutions? Learn how we confront these questions and more through this… Continue reading…
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students Mervin Brandy and Samira Foster are interning at public libraries in Guilford County to apply their education toward serving the community. Brandy and Foster are in the Joint Master of Social Work Program (JMSW) between North Carolina A&T and the University of… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Sharon Morrison, Sudha Shreeniwas, Andrew Young and the Montagnard Dega Association/Montagnard American Organization for work on the Montagnard/Southeast Asian Community Disparities Research Network which received the inaugural Community Impact and Outcomes Award given by the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. This award recognizes service-learning and research carried out… Continue reading…
On July 1, North Carolina Campus Compact announced the selection of the 2019-20 Engaged Faculty Scholars (EFS): Dr. Laura Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Education in the Higher Education program of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and Dr. Scott Hicks, Director of Teaching & Learning Center and Professor… Continue reading…
