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where you can view the variety of service-learning activities and events that take place throughout the year.
Western Carolina University will participate in two community service projects, a film show, guest presentations and discussions, and a potluck dinner as part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, which is Nov. 15-21.
The Western Carolina University Communication Student Organization is assisting the Jackson County Motorcycle Association with the third annual Toy Run Parade to benefit the Jackson County Christmas Store.
Shawna Hipps, a Western Carolina University senior, is a recipient of the North Carolina Campus Compact Community Impact Student Award for 2009.
The campus community at Western Carolina University is pitching in to raise money for a family whose child is sick with cancer.
Western Carolina University students, faculty, staff and family members will combine their efforts on Saturday, Oct. 24, for Make a Difference Day, an annual national day of helping others initiated by USA Weekend magazine.
Western Carolina University’s Center for Service Learning will coordinate four community service projects on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in honor of Homecoming 2009.
Students from more than 30 colleges and universities will gather at Western Carolina University for the 17th annual North Carolina Campus Compact Student Conference on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Fifteen students from Western Carolina University will participate in an alternative fall break Oct. 8 -12 in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where they will assist two social service agencies and local churches with various projects over the five-day period.
Western Carolina University has been recognized by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for the “extraordinary strength” of its civic engagement initiatives.
Western Carolina University will donate a set of used books to Better World Books and the Friends of the Library in Sylva as part of a service-learning project.
A group of Western Carolina University students and faculty members will bicycle 870 miles to visit 88 Buddhist temples this summer during an educational pilgrimage on the island of Shikoku in Japan.
The inaugural winners of the Chancellor’s Meritorious Award for Engaged Teaching have involved students in activities from development of a combination stretcherwheelchair to visiting death row as part of a discussion of capital punishment.
A Western Carolina University faculty member who organized a trip to help the impoverished people of rural Honduras has been honored for her efforts by the WCU office that oversees service learning.
The Corporation for National and Community Service named Western Carolina University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service-learning efforts and leadership in building a “culture of civic engagement.”
WCU's efforts to ensure that students are fully engaged in the process of learning, both in and out of the classroom, earned high marks on a national survey measuring the quality of undergraduate education based upon student involvement with their studies, professors and campus communities.
Western Carolina University expanded the traditional day of service as part of Homecoming events to a month and exceeded a goal of completing 10,000 hours of community service.
What began at Western Carolina University seven years ago as a program of community service quickly grew into a department and is now a center – the Center for Service Learning.
WCU recently presented six Western North Carolina community agencies with Service Learning Partnership Awards in recognition of exemplary collaboration with university students and faculty working on community service projects that are linked to the academic curriculum.
