UNC Greensboro Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant
July 15, 2019
UNC Greensboro has been selected to participate in the Partnerships for Listening and Action by Communities and Educators (PLACE) Collaboratory, a highly selective community-based humanities and civic engagement initiative. UNCG is one of 5 Greensboro institutions and just 11 institutions nationwide to participate in the initiative, which is part of … Continued
Opportunities to Partner with UNC Greensboro
July 15, 2019
The Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement has several opportunities for partnership with UNCG for this upcoming academic year. Host A Service Project for Spartan Service Day Saturday, August 24th, 10am-1pm Register your service project here! Could your organization use a group of volunteers? Register your project with us for … Continued
UNCG Spring Engagement Series
January 29, 2019
To propel UNCG’s momentum as a community-engaged university, each year UNCG brings nationally and locally renowned community engagement scholar-practitioners to campus to engage with faculty, staff, students, and community colleagues. Speakers facilitate discussions on key aspects of engagement, including capacity development for engaged teaching, learning, research, and creative activity; expansion … Continued
Gulf-South Summit 2019
January 14, 2019
Leaders in higher education acknowledge that colleges and universities should not only provide quality educational programs but should teach students to be engaged citizens. Today this mandate is more important than ever. In a national context characterized by polarization, incivility, heightened racial tensions, an embattled press, an opioid crisis, harsh … Continued
New Community-Engaged Faculty Provides Perspectives on How Gun Deaths Impact Black Teen Boys
January 14, 2019
Harrisburg Police Detective Kirk Aldridge was in a deep sleep when he got the call about a shooting, which occurred about 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 25, a Saturday. Jahsun (JAH-son) Patton had been a defensive back on the Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School team the season before. He was visiting … Continued
Dr. Emily Janke Receives the Inaugural Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award
November 13, 2018
On October 23rd at the 2018 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) annual conference in Chicago, Emily Janke, Ph.D., was honored and presented with The Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award. The newly created award recognizes the growing need for research-informed leadership in higher education. Dr. Janke is the first recipient … Continued
Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
November 7, 2018
Partnerships is a Community Engaged journal run out of UNC Greensboro and NC Campus Compact. The fall 2018 issue of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement marks the conclusion of a decade, in publishing articles that recognize successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships. Therefore, it is befitting that … Continued
Deadline for Faculty Fellows Application
October 30, 2018
The deadline for the Faculty Fellows application is due on November 1st, 2018.