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Bonner Scholars Program Application
Each year, 25 students are selected to make a four-year commitment to being active citizens in the city of Richmond.
Summer Fellowships
The CCE supports four summer Civic Fellowship Programs and the Urban Education Fellowship.
Community-Based Learning
Community-based learning is much more than substituting an "experience assignment" for a more traditional assignment.Events
- Spiders Engage CelebrationApr255:30 PM - 7:30 PMAttention all civically engaged students! Are you a current volunteer? Do you work to impact social justice issues in... Continue reading
- Lost In TransitionMay027:00 PM - 9:00 PMLost In Transition is a fictional semi-biographical monodrama of a Korean-American woman by Shion Sharon Lee and... Continue reading
We're looking forward to celebrating the end of the year with all students who engage with the Richmond community! #SpidersEngage
The documentary drama “The Spirit of Armstrong” will be performed tomorrow night at 6 p.m. at Armstrong High School by current Armstrong students and UR students in Laura Browder and Patricia Herrera’s community-based learning course “Documenting a Historic Black High School: A Richmond Community Project.” We hope to see you there! #SpidersEngage
Students from Overby-Sheppard Elementary School are on campus today for the 7th Annual International Day, and Professor Andy McGraw taught them all about Balinese gamelan music. #FutureSpiders
Happy #NationalVolunteerWeek! We know #Spiders are committed to volunteering. Come see us in the Commons, grab some candy, and tell us why you volunteer!
Our Civic Fellowship Mini-Symposium today featured Miranda Rosenblum, ‘18, who served with Equality Virginia as well as GLAAD and the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, and we were inspired by their experiences and learning! Here’s Miranda with faculty mentor Glyn Hughes of Common Ground. #SpidersEngage
Overheard at our last Brown Bag of the school year "GoochlandCares: Neighbors Helping Neighbors":
"The poverty level [in Goochland] is about 7%, and 10% of children in Goochland live in poverty." - Diane Reale, Director of Volunteer Resources, Goochland Cares
Thank you to all who have joined us for our Brown Bag Discussions throughout the year, and we look forward to you all joining us next semester!
What an honor it was to present the Outstanding Civic Engagement Award last night at the SPIDYS to Karleigh Wike from Richmond Women's Basketball and Kasey Gilbride from University of Richmond Field Hockey for their work for Night to Shine RVA sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. #SpiderPride
Overheard at today's Brown Bag "Journalism in the Time of Fake News":
"In the run up to the 2016 [Presidential] election, one in four Americans visited a fake news website." - Robert Hodierne, Chair, Department of Journalism, University of Richmond School of Arts & Sciences
Thank you to all who participated in today's discussion, especially our speaker, Robert!
Be sure to join us next week for our last Brown Bag of the year, "GoochlandCares: Neighbors Helping Neighbors", with guest speaker Diane Reale, Director of Volunteer Resources at Goochland Cares
Be sure to join us at our Brown Bag tomorrow as we discuss "Journalism in the Time of Fake News" with speaker Robert Hodierne, Chair, Department of Journalism here at the University of Richmond School of Arts & Sciences. The discussion will be held in THC 305 from 12:30-1:25pm, and free pizza will be provided!
Our Presentations of Learning continues tonight with "Thriving in Transition"
Thriving in Transition represents students who supported vulnerable populations in transition, ranging from teaching ESL classes to refugees to running small businesses with ex-felons. Students interned at Commonwealth Catholic Charities, the CCE, Boaz & Ruth, Linking Language Through Technology, and The Virginia Home.
We hope to see you today in the Brown Alley Room from 4-6pm! Light refreshments will be provided.
https://engage.richmond.edu/events/pols.html
The CCE kicks off our Presentations of Learning today by discussing Healthy Communities!
Healthy Communities represents students who worked on public health and environmental initiatives, ranging from helping vulnerable populations access health care to coordinating efforts to increase healthy food options in food deserts. Students interned at the CCE, CrossOver Ministry, and Tricycle.
We hope to see you today in the Brown Alley Room from 4-6pm! Light refreshments will be provided.
https://engage.richmond.edu/events/pols.html
Presentations of Learning have been a CCE tradition for years at UR, providing Bonner Scholars and other engaged seniors an opportunity to share the impact of community engagement on their learning, growth, and development. And they begin next week!
https://engage.richmond.edu/events/pols.html
Thanks to HerCampus.com for shining a light on amazing student leaders Cassie Gilboy who volunteers with Youth Life Foundation of Richmond and David Brown who volunteers with Higher Achievement Richmond!
Picture yourself in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia! Melisa Quiroga-Herrera, '18, served at the Hospital Universitario Hernandez Vera as a Civic Fellow. Applications for a 2018 Civic Fellowship are due April 2! Visit engage.richmond.edu for more information.
Richmond will be one of many cities across the country joining the student-led March for our Lives event tomorrow, beginning at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School at 10 a.m.
The 4th Annual Wellness Fair for staff and faculty is happening now in the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness Gymnasium. Come visit us before 4 p.m.!
Each year, the United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg publishes their Indicators of Community Strength report. Reading it is a great way to see how data can illustrate what our strengths are as a region and where we are struggling. For example, "From 2010 to 2015, the number and percent of adults (ages 18 to 64) without health insurance decreased by more than 5 percentage points and 33,702 fewer people were uninsured."
Explore the report here:
https://www.yourunitedway.org/news/indicators2017/
Students, don't miss this opportunity to explore to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello! Apply today at international.richmond.edu.
Our amazing colleagues Kim Dean-Anderson, Adrienne Piazza, and Christine Most were honored today for 10 years of service to the University! #SpiderPride ❤️🕷💙
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sustained relationships with community organizations
volunteers serving consistently in the greater Richmond community
community-based learning courses offered by 103 faculty in 2016-17
Student Blogs
- Miranda Rosenblum: Documenting a Changing Neighborhood: A Richmond Community Project
Major: American Studies & Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (2018) “My time working with Dr. Browder and Dr. Herrera in Church Hill has taught me new things and given me invaluable skills—I have interviewed countless people, traveled to different cities and found new ways to use art to create community, written poetry with smart andContinue reading Miranda Rosenblum: Documenting a Changing Neighborhood: A Richmond Community Project → - Brenden Carol: Center for Civic Engagement
Name: Brenden Carol* Major: PPEL & Political Science (2017) Voting is the key to our democracy. I decided to work to help people vote through my work at the CCE because I find voting the most important duty which any American can serve. I think that every student should go vote today — Please don’tContinue reading Brenden Carol: Center for Civic Engagement → - Dagny Barone: Brown Bag (Northside Strong: A Public Health Initiative in Northside Richmond)
I’m currently in a wellness course focusing on how to get involved and make an impact in your community. This brown bag helped enhance my understanding of ways that Richmond is looking to make an impact in the local community through numerous health initiatives, and how Richmond students are already getting involved, or have theContinue reading Dagny Barone: Brown Bag (Northside Strong: A Public Health Initiative in Northside Richmond) → - Esteban Angeles: TBA
It has been great to have the opportunity to be a Bonner explorer because I’m not 100% sure where exactly I want to volunteer for the next two and a half years. I think that having the chance to visit different Bonner sites will allow me to explore different types of service that I haveContinue reading Esteban Angeles: TBA → - Teams: Richmond Women’s Soccer & UR Alpha Phi Omega
Organization: RVA Reads* “Reading the “Brown Bear” book to the preschool class was great because I used to love that book when I was a little girl, so getting to share the love for a story and the love of reading with those kids was really special. When we read the story aloud, the classContinue reading Teams: Richmond Women’s Soccer & UR Alpha Phi Omega →
Videos
URSF: Byongho Lee and Ryan Rinn
Through The Richmond Guarantee, every undergraduate student is eligible to receive a fellowship of up to $4,000 for a summer internship or faculty-mentored research project. Students discuss their summer fellowship experiences.
Good Sports Program (program of the Junior League of Richmond at Peter Paul Development Center)
Good Sports is a program of the Junior League of Richmond at Peter Paul Development Center that promotes character development through athletics for elementary school-aged youth.
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