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Call for Nominations Opens – NC Campus Compact Student Awards
September 26, 2012
NC Campus Compact annual awards recognize the outstanding civic engagement work being carried out by various constituents on its member campuses (and UNCG is a member!). John H. Barnhill Civic Trailblazer Award Created in 2011, the John H. Barnhill Civic Trailblazer Award, is awarded annually to a student at a … Continued
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Call for 2012-13 Community-Based Research Grants
September 26, 2012
2012-2013 Community-Based Research Grants Application Deadline: Sunday, October 7th, 2012 (midnight) Faculty Award: $1,000 (state funds deposited into department account) Undergraduate Student: $1,500 award Graduate Student: $500 research award Purpose The community-based research (CBR) initiation grant supports proposals that represent collaborative partnerships among community partner, student, and faculty teams. Projects … Continued
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Opportunities to Attend National Conferences Focused on Community Engagement this summer/fall
September 21, 2012
A variety of conferences coming up this fall will offer opportunities for students, staff, faculty, and community colleagues to attend and present on community-engaged research, teaching, and scholarship. If you are interested in attending or presenting at any of these, please let us know! Contact Kristin Medlin, Communications and Partnerships … Continued
Breaking Down Boxes
September 21, 2012
reposted from UNCG’s Inspire.Change site Villa Maria del Triunfo. It’s a name that rolls off the tongue with the elegance of an upscale Spanish neighborhood – not a shanty town where residents literally lack roofs over their heads. What Aisha Crawford ’13 witnessed in this small Peruvian village profoundly affected … Continued
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UNCG to Host & Lead NC Campus Compact’s Online Journal “Partnerships”
September 20, 2012
Spoma Jovanovic and Cathy Hamilton, long-time advocates of service-learning and community engagement, will be teaming up with North Carolina Campus Compact to provide leadership for the Compact’s online jounal Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. Partnerships recognizes that successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, … Continued
Field Wide News (9/20/2012)
September 20, 2012
This digest of field-wide news has been synthesized from a variety of national outlets on public scholarship and community engagement. Call for proposals for CU Expo 2013: Engaging Shared Worlds is now open! CCPH is supporting this Canadian-led international conference designed to showcase the best practices in community-university partnerships worldwide, … Continued
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Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater helps homeless individuals share stories, poetry, art in ‘street newspaper’
August 20, 2012
All the staff are formerly homeless, aside from founder Liz Seymour. All the guests are homeless. At the IRC – the Interactive Resource Center in downtown Greensboro – there are many stories to share. Dr. Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater, as editor of its guests’ “street newspaper,” helps ensure they are. Chiseri-Strater joined … Continued
Bringing the community engagement landscape into view
August 20, 2012
Article by Kristin Medlin, ICEE Communications and Partnerships Manager Social entrepreneurship students team up with individuals struggling to make ends meet and win micro-loans to start businesses – and new lives – in Greensboro. A music professor and graduate students partner with the Greensboro Symphony, the Music Academy, and a … Continued