What defines a safe community? Over the last decade, UNCG’s Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships (CYFCP) and the Office of Research and Economic Development have worked with the High Point community and the state of North Carolina to reduce violent crime and recidivism through focused deterrence, which focuses … Continued
Save the Date! On March 5-7, 2015, the UNCG Department of Interior Architecture and Center for Community-Engaged Design will host the 2nd Annual Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design. This year, the focus of the symposium will be on homelessness and housing the homeless, and will feature Brent Brown, of … Continued
Join the UNCG Institute for Community and Economic Engagement and the United Way of Greater Greensboro on January 20, 2015 from 1:00-2:30pm for a viewing party as we livestream the webinar “It’s About the Community: Why Community Engagement and Process Matter in Collective Impact.” Have lunch plans? Prior to the webinar at … Continued
UNCG has been re-certified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a 2015 Community-Engaged Institution. The Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement classification is awarded for “deep engagement” at local, regional, national and global levels. UNCG, classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a High-Research Activity University, earned its initial … Continued
Dr. Cathy Hamilton, director of UNCG’s Office of Leadership and Service-Learning, appears on “NC Now” tonight at 7:30 p.m. on PBS. For the second straight year, UNCG made the President’s Higher Education and Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. Hamilton will talk about the university’s commitment to service-learning and how UNCG students … Continued
The Center for Community-Engaged Design (CC-ED), led by faculty member Travis Hicks, has steadily gained traction and interest in the Greensboro community. This fall, Travis traveled to Edmonton, Alberta Canada on October 6-8 to co-present Design Pedagogy as a means for Community Engagement with Professor Rebekah Radtke from the University of Kentucky. The 15th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium goal … Continued
From the minute she steps into the basement of First African Presbyterian Church on Monday nights, Kaitlin Bushinski is in motion. The second-year master of social work student begins checking in patients at that evening’s free clinic while her peers facilitate introductions among student volunteers, many of whom spend their … Continued
On Friday, December 5, High Point Museum will open its latest exhibition Pieces of the Past: The Art of Gwendolyn Magee, curated by the UNCG Department of History Museum Studies Class of 2015. It will feature a number of quilts created by nationally renowned artist Gwendolyn Jones Magee, a High Point native … Continued
The following UNCG faculty were awarded $3,000-$4,000 research fellowships from the UNCG Coalition for Diverse Language Communities (with support from School of Education’s Dean Wixson and Vice Provost Shelton) for their collaborative work with members of diverse language communities: Jeannette Alarcon, School of Education, for “Exploring School Culture within the … Continued
GREENSBORO, N.C. — College students in the Piedmont Triad are teaming up with congregational nurses to help the homeless in a unique way at the Greensboro Interactive Resource Center. Social work students at UNCG and North Carolina A&T University intern at the IRC to help guests can get all the … Continued