Spotlight on Service Archives

Tenth Annual Tar Heel Bus Tour travels the state May 14-18
Three dozen of the UNC's newest faculty members are participating in a weeklong introduction to the state, its history and people as the Tar Heel Bus Tour makes its tenth journey across the state. Since 1997, the UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor has sponsored the bus tour. In that time, nearly 300 new faculty and administrators have experienced this guided tour across North Carolina. For 10 years, the privately funded tours have covered about 1,100 miles each from the coast to the mountains, stopping at a cross-section of sites important to North Carolina’s history, economy, culture and environment.
Read about the tenth anniversary and watch the video
Find out more about the Tar Heel Bus Tour


Meet the 2007 class of Public Service Scholars
At commencement, 96 students will graduate as Public Service Scholars. The scholars have each completed a minimum of 300 hours of service, taken at least one service-learning course and attended skills-training workshops. These students have reported more than 43,000 hours of service, an average of almost 450 hours per graduate.
Graduating scholars will wear a blue and white cord at graduation to represent his or her designation as a Public Service Scholar. Learn more about these exceptional students HERE. Follow this link to learn more about the program. Read the press release HERE.


FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ON SERVICE-LEARNING
Provost Gray-Little will welcome participants to this Institute on Thursday, May 10, from 8:30am-4:30pm and Friday, May 11, from 8:30am-3:00pm, in 039 of the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence. The program is designed for faculty or graduate students already engaged in service-learning or interested in service-learning pedagogy. Faculty mentors and colleagues will examine service-learning principles, practices and course design. Attendees will also participate in a hands-on, volunteer experience in the local community. The Institute is free of charge, and breakfast and lunch are included both days. RSVP by May 4 to Jenny Huq.


Service North Carolina
Service North Carolina is an event that will unite the 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina in an effort to give back to their communities through one week of service. Students across the state are participating in service projects during the week of March 24-31, and they need help to make Service North Carolina at UNC-CH a success! Several different fun service projects are lined up throughout the week. The projects include: working with kids at the hospital in the Pediatric Playroom and clearing trails with Battle Park Trails. The big event is a Field Day on Friday March 30 which involves children from several elementary schools, the YMCA, and the Boys and Girls Club. Transportation will be provided. Sign up dealine is Saturday, March 24. To view a list of projects and to register, click here.

Beat Hunger. Beat Duke.
The well known “Beat Hunger, Beat Duke” competition is an annual event that expands the rivalry between Carolina and Duke in a way that benefits thousands of needy North Carolinians. This competition between the 4 big North Carolina Universities: UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest, and NC State is to see who can raise the most canned foods for the NC Food Bank. Last year, the four universities raised over $15,000 collectively. To find out more infomration about Beat Hunger Beat Duke, click here.

“AIDS at 25: It’s Time to Deliver”
In recognition of the 25 years that have been spent fighting AIDS, a conference devoted to research, education, and activism, on behalf of minority communities, is being held February 23, 2007 in the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center, located in Chapel Hill, NC. The "Time to Deliver" theme reflects the need for education, health care access, financial support, compassion and healing, which are all needs that still exist in many U.S. communities. It is clear that after 25 years, AIDS remains one of the most critical public health issues of our time.
The conference will feature speakers and presenters who are devoted to HIV/AIDS work and who can provide insights about future directions. Due to the number of people that have signed up, registration to the event has been closed. However, there will be an interactive webcast and a satellite broadcast of the Keynote Lecture at 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST on February 23, 2007. Visit this link for more information.

Public Service Scholars Program Enrollment Surpasses the 1,000 mark! Hailing from Monroe, North Carolina, first-year student Courtney Cox became the 1,000th active participant in the Public Service Scholars program. She commented, "I decided to become involved with the Public Service Scholars program because helping others in the community and beyond has always been very important to me. I really look forward to getting more involved in service through this program." Launched in January 2003, the Public Service Scholars program provides a framework for Carolina students who want to explore service opportunities, learn new skills and link their academic experience to making a difference in their community. As these students work to improve the quality of life for people in North Carolina and beyond, they continue Carolina’s proud tradition of being the nation’s first public university. Since the program’s inception, participants have logged more than 165,000 hours of service. The Public Service Scholars program has grown not only in student enrollment (from 78 to 1117), but in esteem both on and off campus. To learn more about the Service Scholars program, click here..

UNC-CH Jumps 3 Spots in Peace Corps' Top List
As of January 16, 2007, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has moved up 3 spots to No. 8 on Peace Corps' top 25 list for large schools with 77 alumni currently serving as Peace Corps Volunteers. Since Peace Corps' inception, 966 alumni of UNC-Chapel Hill have joined the ranks, making UNC Chapel Hill the No. 25 producer of Volunteers all time. To view the entire "Peace Corps Top Colleges 2007" list, please visit the Peace Corps site here.

Students Learn about Philanthropy Inside and Outside the Classroom
This past semester, students learned about the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors through direct engagement in the grant-making process. The thirteen-person committee of Promoting Change Through the Nonprofit Sector, a one credit hour course offered through CCPS, researched the needs of Orange County and analyzed their findings and created a request for grant proposals that addressed the County's needs. The committee sought to support programs that serve the elderly and Latino populations, particularly in northern Orange County, and chose Piedmont Health Services and The Women's Center as recipients of this year's award.
The class is made possible through the support of "Helen's Fund" at the Fund for Southern Communities. Students apply for the course, with preference given to students enrolled in the Public Service Scholars program. Read the Herald Sun article about the course here.

Carolina recognized as "Community-Engaged University" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified UNC as a "community-engaged university" in recognition of Carolina's long tradition of contributing to the common good by promoting scholarship and service that are responsive to the concerns of communities throughout the state and beyond. The classification, a new addition to the Carnegie Foundation's approach to recognizing quality colleges and universities, "represents a significant affirmation of the importance of community engagement in the agenda of higher education," Alexander McCormick, director of Carnegie's classification work, said in a statement. "Carolina is honored to receive national recognition as an institution that takes the well-being and enhancement of our local, national and global communities to heart," said Mike Smith, Carolina's vice chancellor for public service and engagement. "Public service here really is a defining characteristic of this university."
Read the UNC press release here.
To view the list of newly classified colleges and universities please click here.

UNC Student Receives 2006 CASE Grant for Campus-Community Collaboration
Lauren Burianek (pictured here with Leslie Garvin, Asst. Director of NCCampus Compact), a first year UNC-Chapel Hill student, is the inaugural recipient of the Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneurship (CASE) Grant for Campus-Community Collaboration awarded by NC Campus Compact. Lauren will use the $1000 grant to support, strengthen and expand UNC-Chapel Hill's partnership with the Boomerang program. Boomerang is a community collaborative partnership sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the YMCA that serves as an alternative-to-suspension program serving high school students from the Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools. Specifically, Lauren will partner with the Circle K chapter at UNC-Chapel Hill to establish and maintain a self-sustaining garden within the Boomerang Program. In addition to lessons about agriculture, science and aesthetics, students will learn about responsibility and respect. Lauren will integrate service-learning into the project by conducting research and designing lesson plans and educational materials for the participants. To read more and follow this ongoing project click here.

UNC Alum is ABC News Person of the Week
Captain Rye Barcott first visited Kibera as a student at the University of North Carolina and was shocked. He was so moved by the level of poverty that he encountered, he decided to give up the comforts of his home in North Carolina and move to Kibera, where he formed his charity, Carolina for Kibera. This charity has turned the slum's shacks into a medical clinic and a youth center. In between combat assignments in Iraq, Captain Rye Barcott still supports his charity and still fights to prevent rival African tribes from erupting into sectarian warfare. To read the entire article posted by ABC News click here. To read the Carolina For Kibera Bi-Annual Update click here.

Smith, longtime public service advocate, named Vice Chancellor for Engagement
Michael R. Smith has been named Carolina’s vice chancellor for engagement. The appointment, effective November 1, was made by Chancellor James Moeser and approved by the UNC Board of Trustees. Smith will be taking on this role in addition to his current position as dean of the School of Government, a position he has held since 2001. The Carolina Center for Public Service will report to and work closely with him to expand and extend campus-wide engagement with the state. To read more about Smith's history and his new position visit this link.

Information Session on 10/3 on Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities
How can advocates for social change use entrepreneurship to change the world? ...how can I do that? Attend an Informational Session on Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities on Tuesday, Oct. 3 from 5-6:30pm in Room 039 in Graham Memorial. Dr. Jim Johnson, entrepreneurship professor, will be speaking. Campus Y, APPLES, Carolina Center for Public Service, the Carolina Challenge, and the Entrepreneurship Minor will present information on their programs to promote social entrepreneurship. RSVP here to reserve your space. Dinner provided by Nourish International.

CCPS supports Radio Pa'lante
Drs. Lucila Vargas and Carol Ford at UNC received funding through the Strowd Roses Faculty Fund at CCPS to support and study the launch of Radio Pa'lante - a weekly radio show produced by local Latino teens. Radio Pa'lante was launched on June 2nd and is on the air every Friday from 5-6pm. Celebrate Radio Pa'lante's successful launch with a 3 hour broadcast and fiesta open to the public on September 22, from 5-8pm at the WCOM studios. For more info, go to the Pa'lante website Radio Pa'lante was recently featured on North Carolina Now - Watch the video.

Volunteer Fair - August 30th from 10:30 to 1:30
Come to the 7th annual Volunteer Fair in the Pit to learn about ways you can make a difference in your community. More than 40 local nonprofits will be on campus to give out information and recruit volunteers. Students, faculty, staff and the public are cordially invited. Get out and get involved this semester by engaging in public service! Sponsored by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, Chapel Hill News, UNC Student Government and UNC Graduate & Professional Student Federation. Contact CCPS for more information.

UNC supports the war effort with care packages
Over the last six months, a growing network of people at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Hospitals and in the local community has sent about 1,500 pounds of toiletries, books, etc., in nearly 100 care packages to troops in hot zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, letting them know that they are by no means forgotten. Dr. Robert Connolly, an associate professor in UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School coordinates the effort.It all started with one e-mail he sent last Thanksgiving to a listserv for his neighborhood in northern Chapel Hill. His daughter had seen a clip on TV about Any Soldier (www.anysoldier.com). The organization matches its contact soldiers in the field with folks in the states who want to send care packages. The organization emphasizes soldiers who don’t get much mail – hence, its name.Read more about the support effort!

The 18th Annual Carolina Blood Drive
The 18th annual Carolina Blood Drive continues another UNC-CH tradition of excellence. It is the biggest one-day blood drive on the east coast! It will be held Tuesday, June 6, from 7:00am-6:00pm at the Dean E. Smith Center. Donors and volunteers will receive Red Cross T-shirts. Donors can call 96-BLOOD (962-5663) to sign up for an appointment or use the online donor form . Walk-ins that day will also be accepted, but appointments are encouraged.
Sign up now to volunteer!

Ninth Annual Tarheel Bustour
Three dozen of the UNC's newest faculty members participated in a weeklong introduction to the state, its history and people as the Tar Heel Bus Tour made its ninth journey across the state.Since 1997, the UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor has sponsored the bus tour. In that time, more than 250 new faculty and administrators have experienced this guided tour across North Carolina. This year, 36 new faculty members and administrators - plus UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser and Dr. Joseph Templeton, UNC-Chapel Hill chemistry professor and chairman of the faculty - participated in the tour. The tour's highlights included Halifax County, Beaufort, Lexington, Charlotte, and Rocky Mount.
Find out more about the history of the Tarheel Bus Tour
Read more about the stop at Chimney Rock
The bus tour visits the Opportunities Industrialization Center

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial to be held this weekend
On May 21, 2006, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will be held in
approximately 4,500 communities in 104 countries making it the largest grassroots AIDS event to date. The annual event, coordinated worldwide by the Global Health Council, commemorates the lives lost to AIDS, demonstrates support for people living HIV/AIDS, and mobilizes community-based responses to HIV/AIDS. The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world, and it assists coordinators with effectively organizing memorials in their
communities. North Carolina can join the rest of the world on this day of remembrance and action in Raleigh, at the Longview Center at 7pm.
Click here for more details

Kidzu Children's Museum Hosts New "Go Figure" Exhibit
Kidzu is an engaging, hands-on museum where children 0-8 years old and the adults in their lives play to learn. The museum is hosting "Go Figure!" an exhibit that transforms charming children's books into kid-sized worlds where children and adults delight in exploring math. Familiar friends such as Arthur, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Frog and Toad enliven this special exhibit. Go Figure! was developed by the Minnesota Children's Museum with a grant from the National Science Foundation. It is sponsored at Kidzu with a generous grant from the Strowd Roses Inc. Foundation. The exhibit is on display from May 12th through September 10th.
Read more about Go Figure!
Read more about Kidzu Children's Museum

Involving Youth in Violence Prevention: A PREVENT Web Conference
The UNC Injury Prevention Center is participating in a free web conference on preventing youth violence that will include presentations on projects working to prevent violenve at the community level and describe benefits of involving youth. The conference will take place on Thursday, May 4th from 2-3:30pm ET and the corresponding times in different time zones across the United States.Web conference technology allows participants to view presentation slides, submit questions online and listen to presenters over the phone. The conference is co-sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center.
Click here for more information!
Click here to register!

UNC School of Public Health is one of 12 institutions chosen for initiative to eliminate health disparities - The UNC School of Public Health is one of 12 U.S. schools and graduate programs of public health recently selected to participate in the Engaged Institutions Initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The initiative seeks to support and promote the sustained efforts of institutions of higher education working in partnership with communities to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.UNC’s School of Public Health was chosen from among 26 schools and graduate programs that applied. Schools were selected based on their track record of engagement with communities and concrete efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. Read more!

UNC Habitat for Humanity - Act! Speak! Build! Week
4/3 through 4/9 - Act! Speak! Build! Week is a worldwide, student-initiated week of advocacy that seeks to empower young people to educate themselves and their communities and move them to social action. This year's theme is "Poverty Knows No Borders." UNC-Chapel Hill Habitat for Humanity will hold a fact campaign on campus to advertise information about poverty housing, and is partnering with other organizations to host events that focus on ending poverty housing. The goal is to increase students' awareness of these issues and provide them with some options to participate in change.
Click here for more information!

The "Big Four ACC Canned Food Drive" - The "Big Four ACC Canned Food Drive" has just concluded, and four North Carolina universities -- UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, N.C. State University, and Wake Forest University -- collectively raised $15,809 and 2,623 pounds of physical donations -- for the equivalent of 81,669 pounds of food. The amount of food will provide about 68,774 meals to needy individuals across the 34 counties in central and eastern North Carolina that the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina serves. For more information click here.

UNC’s Institute of Government introduces free online digest - As part of its Legislative Reporting Service, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Government is offering a new feature: online digests of bills filed in the General Assembly. This service previously was available only to legislators and their staffs.For each bill, a single document provides a digest of the original bill and a summary of each subsequent change, including amendments, committee substitutes, conference reports and enactment.For more than 60 years, the Institute of Government’s Legislative Reporting Service has informed local governments, agencies and citizens in the state about the status and content of state legislation.The new online service offers summaries of each version of every bill introduced in the General Assembly for the years 1987 through 2002. By subscribing to the Daily Bulletin, clients gain access from 1987 through the current session.

Relay for Life: March 31-April 1
Relay For Life is a team event sponsored by the American Cancer Society to raise money for cancer research, awareness, and special programs. It is a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at schools, fairgrounds, or parks and take turns walking or running laps. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all times.Relay For Life at UNC-CH honors cancer Register!

Students to host symposium for Hurricane Katrina relief
In an effort to respond positively to the destruction left by Hurricane Katrina, students at the UNC chapter of the Roosevelt Institution are hosting a national policy symposium March 3 and 4. symposium will bring together students nationwide to develop substantive, creative policy proposals aimed at assisting those affected by the Hurricane Katrina and putting forward public policy ideas thatmay help in future disaster response. Students will gather on the UNC campus to present their work and collaborate with experts in the field.The symposium, "Moving Forward After Hurricane Katrina: College Students' Ideas to Renew New Orleans and Improve U.S. Disaster Policy," is the first national policy symposium sponsored by the year-old Roosevelt Institution Read more about the symposium! Get more information on the Roosevelt Institution!

Children's Rights Week Sponsored by Campus Y, This year’s Children’s Rights Week focuses on the challenges of equality and access to education, health care, and legal rights for children in America. The week includes panel discussions with academics, students, and community leaders on a range of issues affecting children, as well as film and documentary screenings, talks by national leaders on children’s issues, and programming to foster connections between local children and the university community. Click here for a schedule of events!

SURGE Conference SURGE, Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, will hold a conference on Feb. 24-25, with the topic, "Empowering a Progressive South, Community by Community." There will be more than 160 cosponsors that vary from student groups such as NC Central's Environmental Awareness Student Effort to Foundations to local groups such as Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA(Carolina Interfaith Taskforce Connecting the Americas) to businesses such as Carolina Green Energy. The conference will be held in the Science Complex at NC Central University in Durham. Students from across the state will enjoy workshops, strategy sessions, films, and food for a low registration price of $20. Click here for more information or to register!

The 7th Annual Let's Talk R.A.C.E Conference The Teaching Fellows at UNC-Chapel Hill host the 7th Annual conference concerning race and education: Let's Talk R.A.C.E. (Racial Attitudes and Conversations in Education). This year's conference will focus on the theme of "Music in the Schools." The goal of the conference is to investigate the relationships between music, culture, race and ethnicity, and schools. The conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 18, from 9:00am-4:30pm at East Chapel Hill High School. For more information!

Beat Hunger, Beat Duke The well known “Beat Hunger, Beat Duke” competition is an annual event that expands the rivalry between Carolina and Duke in a way that benefits thousands of needy North Carolinians; last year alone the two universities collected over 70,000 pounds of canned foods. Borne from that tradition is the “Big 4 ACC Canned Food Drive.” Now included in the fight against hunger are UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest, and NC State. The four universities will compete from February 1st to March 1st, building to the March 4, 2006 matchups of Carolina vs. Duke and NC State vs. Wake, to determine who can raise the most canned foods for the NC Food Bank. Because the NC Food Bank purchases foods in bulk, for every dollar donated the food bank is able to buy 5 pounds of food. Anything that you can give will help, so show some school spirit and Beat Duke, State, and Wake! Donate now!

UNC No. 11 on Peace Corps list UNC has moved up three spots to No. 11 on the top 25 list for large schools with 59 alumni currently serving as volunteers in the Peace Corps. Since the program's inception, 921 university alumni have joined the ranks of the corps, making the university the No. 25 producer of volunteers of all time.Schools are ranked according to the size of the student body. Large schools are those with more than 15,000 undergraduates.To view the entire 2006 "Top Producing Colleges and Universities" list click here!

The Handbook for Educators Who Work with Children of Mexican Origin The UNC School of Education and the University Center for International Studies have issued the third edition of The Handbook for Educators Who Work with Children of Mexican Origin. The CD provides information and resources to meet the challenge of improving educational opporunities for the rising nmber of Mexican-born children and their American-born siblings in schools across the United States. The Handbook gives information about the organization of the Mexican educational system as well as the Binational Program, a program of the U.S. and Mexico that developed report cards to be used by educators on both sides of the border to facilitate student transitions from one country to the next.

North Carolina Hillel Collects Money for Darfur A mile of masking tape lined the center of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus recently as Jewish students collected money to help the victims of violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. The "Dimes Mile" was part of North Carolina Hillel's yearlong Dimes for Darfur campaign, a nationwide effort to collect 150,000 dimes -- representing the 150,000 children who perished during the Holocaust -- and help those suffering from a modern-day genocide.Organizers placed a mile of tape—sticky side up—in the central campus pit so students walking by could empty their pockets of coins and bills and stick them on the tape. The scene created a powerful visual representation of the Holocaust's toll on humanity. During the first "Dimes Mile," students raised $450, and this month's event brought in another $300. The students hope to raise the total of $15,000 by North Carolina Hillel's Holocaust Remembrance Week in April.

Boomerang-A New Community based program begins Boomerang was created to provide short-term suspended middle and high school students with a supervised and positive environment during their time away from school. Through a network of community partners, the youth will have the opportunity to stay on pace with their schoolwork, identify their own strengths and challenges, and access information and services to enhance their success both at school and at home. The service will be provided at the Chapel Hill YMCA on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9:00am-2:00pm. Volunteers needed to serve as tutors in the morning, helping these youth complete assignments and/or work on improving fundamental reading, math, and reasoning skills.
For more information or to volunteer

R.O.C.T.S Day for Service Each year, Day for Service brings together a diverse group of Carolina students interested in giving back to the greater Chapel Hill community.Carolina R.O.C.T.S. (Rejuvenating Our Community Through Service), a UNC-Chapel Hill student organization, is organizing the fifth annual Day for Service, to occur on the federal observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Day for Service, part of a weeklong birthday celebration on the Carolina campus, will commemorate the dedication Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. showed to helping the less
fortunate.How to volunteer

Law students to spend winter holiday helping Hurricane Katrina victims with legal issues Fifteen students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will head to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans on Dec. 18 as part of the pro bono program at the School of Law. Supervised by and working with local attorneys at the New Orleans Pro Bono Project, these students will help clients recover Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance for destroyed property, protect the civil rights of those left homeless by Hurricane Katrina and seek remedies for those who have been wrongfully evicted from their homes. Read the press release.

Friend of CCPS honored with Davie Award. On November 16 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees presented four longtime friends of the university with the prestigious William Richardson Davie Award in recognition of their extraordinary service. Chancellor James Moeser and the Board of Trustees honored the following Davie Award recipients at a Carolina Inn dinner: Marjorie Bryan Buckley of Bethlehem, Pa.; Donald Curtis of Raleigh; Frank Daniels Jr. of Raleigh; and Richard J. "Dick" Richardson of Pittsboro. Read more about the recipients here.

Buy a Christmas tree and help low income families in Ashe County, NC. WeCare is a local organization of low-income people in Ashe County, North Carolina. It operates under the authority of the Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission, a community action agency chartered over 35 years ago to help the poor in Ashe County. WeCare puts all of its money into very basic needs: garden seeds, emergency fuel and electricity, and Christmas toys for children. It is an all volunteer organization and all of the money it receives goes to help others. So far 6 Christmas tree growers from Ashe County have agreed to provide WeCare with trees from fresh cuttings. WeCare is selling 6-7 foot trees for $50. The goal is to raise $5,000 toward the WeCare budget this year. Trees will be transported to Chapel Hill and distributed. These trees are guaranteed, freshly cut, nursery grown, 6-7 foot, Number 1 Fraser fir trees. The trees will be cut the last week in November, so you know they will be fresh. When you buy a tree you help people help themselves. And you get a fine CHRISTMAS TREE for a reasonable price. Order deadline is Wednesday, November 30. Click here to download the order form.

Caroline Whalen, CCPS 2005 Bryan Fellow is a graduate student in the School of Public Health department of Health Behavior and Heath Education. Caroline's Women's CARE (Culturally Appropriate Reproductive Examination Education) project examined the experiences of Muslim women seeking reproductive health care and cancer screenings in order to better understand their concerns or needs. From this information, Caroline created and distributed educational brochures regarding reproductive health issues, designed an informational web page in the Women's Health and Beauty section of the Islamic Association of Raleigh's website and held an educational question and answer session for Arab sisters and other Muslim women from the Islamic Association of Raleigh.

Seagraves Student Organization Grant recipients get roses and (no) raspberries says The Chapel Hill News!
Roses to the quartet of UNC students who established a library at the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services shelter for homeless women and children.
Shauna Griffin and Kristen Boekelheide of Carrboro, Cindy McCracken of Cary and Meg McGinn of Arlington, Va., set out with a goal of acquiring 40 books to create the library at HomeStart, the IFC's residential facility for women and children.
Read the article in the Chapel Hill News.
Read the press release.

Follow these links for more information on the IFC or Project Homestart.

To learn more about other Seagraves Student Organization Grant recipients and their projects, click here.

TITAN (Teaching Individuals to Act Now) Camp for young women, a Bryan Fellowship success story!
Rock climbing, Spinning, Pilates and healthy cooking and self-defense classes, were just a few of the new experiences eight young women were introduced to this summer at Candice Lowdermilk’s TITAN (Teaching Individuals to Act Now) Camp in McDowell County. Made possible through the support of Candice’s Robert E. Bryan Fellowship from the Carolina Center for Public Service, the camp assembled a group of eight girls for five days of group activities, self reflection exercises and physical fitness workshops at the Corpening YMCA.
As a Psychology and Exercise and Sport Science major and McDowell County native, Candice’s main goal was to educate and inspire young women from her area to make healthy lifestyle decisions long after the camp ends. Since the conclusion of the camp, the girls have continued to meet bimonthly to share their progress in meeting their personal goals and to discuss how they can utilize their experiences from camp to address daily situations through healthy living and good decision making.
Click here to see a video testimonial of some of the campers.

To learn more about Candice and other Bryan Fellows, click here.

UNC Student Philanthropy Class Featured in the news!
The work of students in the second Student Philanthropy Class at UNC was featured in an article in the Philanthropy Journal this week. The Student Philanthropy Project (SPCL 90) is a unique opportunity through the Carolina Center for Public Service and the Public Service Scholars Program for students to learn about and experience the process of awarding grants to local agencies.
Throughout the Student Philanthropy Project experience, students function as a committee and are responsible for designing grant award criteria, soliciting grant proposals, and awarding funding to local community organizations. The project was made possible through the support of "Helen's Fund" at the Fund for Southern Communities and the Carolina Center for Public Service.
Read the Philanthropy Journal article here.

Communities respond to cross burnings in Durham
The documentary "Unlikely Friendship" will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 2 at B.N. Duke Auditorium on NCCU's campus, followed by a panel discussion about the cross burnings which occured in Durham last week.
The award winning documentary film tells the story of a Ku Klux Klan leader and outspoken black activist (pictured above) who form a strong and loving relationship in the wake of a community discussion on Durham school desegregation in 1970.
This film was made possible through a grant from the Carolina Center for Public Service. For more information on the film and training curriculum developed to accompany it, see a description of the project.
For more information on events planned for this week, please see this Herald Sun article.

New faculty return from the Tar Heel Bus Tour - one way UNC enables faculty to learn about the state (Tar Heel Bus Tour: May 16 - May 20, 2005)
On Friday (May 20), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Tar Heel Bus Tour pulled into UNC's William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education parking lot after its eighth weeklong adventure across North Carolina.
This year, 36 recent additions to the faculty, representing diverse academic disciplines, participated in the tour. Participants learned about the physical and cultural landscape of the state, fostered closer ties across disciplines and learned more about the places many of their students call home.
UNC Chancellor James Moeser and Judith Wegner, UNC law professor and chairwoman of the faculty, also joined the tour.
Several local papers wrote articles about stops the bus tour made in their area:
The Digital Courier
Rockey Mount Telegram
Journal Now

Click HERE to read the press release, and visit the official Tar Heel Bus Tour web site.

On May 15th, 2005, UNC Chapel Hill graduated its first class of Public Service Scholars
At commencement 15 students graduated as Public Service Scholars.
The scholars have completed a minimum of 300 hours of service, taken at least two service-learning courses and attended skills-training workshops. Although requirements for the program include a minimum grade-point average of 2.5, all 15 graduates have a 3.0 or better.
Graduating scholars will receive recognition at the commencement ceremony, as well as official recognition on their transcripts. Each graduating scholar will also wear a blue and white cord at graduation to represent his or her designation as a Public Service Scholar.
Learn more about these exceptional students HERE. Follow this link HERE to learn more about the program.

Students travel to Haywood County in April to assist with hurricane recovery
In April a group of students and staff from UNC traveled to Clyde, in Haywood County to assist in sorting donations at the donation collection site. The trip was coordinated by students Katie Hunt and Ginny King with the support of PSAC in Student Government and the Carolina Center for Public Service (CCPS). The trip was financed by the Hurrican Relief Fund through CCPS.

National Student Partnerships (NSP) recognized Shanna Jefferson (3rd from right) at their National Conference in Washington, DC as one of two Local Directors of the Year. The president of NSP’s National Student Advisory Board cited her unwavering dedication and excellence in leading the NSP-Durham local office as evidence of her merit.
“This is an incredible honor,” a shocked and tearful Jefferson said at the awards ceremony. “NSP-Durham creates an environment where people can thrive, and I have just tried my best to provide that for others.”
NSP operates a national network of resource centers, staffed by student volunteers from area colleges and universities. The students work one-on-one with low-income community members, providing intensive on-site and referral services.
Shanna Jefferson is a NC-ACTS! AmeriCorps team member, a Public Service Scholar and a recipient of a 2005 Robert E. Bryan Fellowship through the Carolina Center for Public Service. Read more.

Help spread the Tar Heel Spirit to our NC Troops! Our troops always look forward to getting news from home and what better news to share than our very own Men's Basketball Championship win and the successful seasons of both the Women and Men's Basketball teams!
Whole Foods is in need of some volunteers to help spread the Carolina spirit to our NC troops by selling UNC DTH's 2004-2005 Men's and Women's Basket Commemorative Issue at their Chapel Hill location. Each $5 issue sold at Whole Foods pays the cost of one issue to be sent to NC soldiers serving in Iraq or the Gulf. Shifts are available on two separate days:

Saturday, April 16th
Two hour shifts - two persons per shift
Beginning 10 AM and ending at 12ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL WITH THE O lica.smith@wholefoods.com

The Women and Children's Homeless Shelter (Project Homestart) in Chapel Hill burned on Tuesday night (3/22/05). The building was a total loss and the families lost everything. The families have been helped by the Red Cross but they are limited in their resources. If anyone would like to make a monetary donation to the shelter it can be sent to:
Interfaith Council
For: Victims of Homestart Fire
110 W. Main St.
Carrboro, NC 27510
They will also accept giftcards for clothing.
Beat Hunger Beat Duke The Campus Y and the Public Service and Advocacy Committee of Student Government coordinated the 3rd annual food drive, Beat Hunger Beat Duke, which ran from February 25 through March4. UNC beat Duke for a second year in a row, collecting a total of 68,567 pounds compared to Duke's 8,183 pounds. The donations have been delivered to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and will benefit many families in the region. Thanks to everyone in the Carolina community who participated in this food drive. Way to go Heels!

OCRCC Accepting applications for volunteer training The Orange County Rape Crisis Center is accepting applications for its Spring 2005 volunteer training class. The Center seeks dedicated women and men with diverse backgrounds, ideas and experience to volunteer their time to answer the 24-hour crisis/response line and to present educational programs. Spanish speakers and individuals with daytime and weekday availability are strongly encouraged to apply. Training will be provided and begins in mid February. The deadline for applications is Jan. 31. Learn more.

Mentors Help Young Latinas Las Guapitas was recently awarded a small grant, $300, from UNC's Carolina Center for Public Service. The award, known as the Seagraves Grant, is given to those groups that address specialized needs in the community. It's the second year in a row Las Guapitas has won the award, and the money will be used for a parents' dinner and an end-of-the-year field trip.Las Guapitas, an all female group from UNC, tutors sixth, seventh, and eighth grade Latino girls at Mcdougle Middle School. The mentors work to promote higher education and opportunity awareness among the students Now in its third year, Las Guapitas meets after school eight times a semester at McDougle, and the girls spend between one and two hours together.
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Exams are over! Donate your books to Africa! Circle K, a student organization dedicated to serving the global community, is sponsoring a book drive through Better World Books to send used textbooks to Africa. The drive began last week and will continue until Dec. 14. Last spring, Circle K collected and shipped 1,000 books from UNC to Better World Books. The group's goal this semester is to surpass that number and collect 1,500 books. The main collection sites for the book drive are located outside UNC Student Stores, Ram Book and Supply and Tarheel Book Store. For more information, contact Rezwan Ahmed.

How to Eat Healthy During Exams Too rushed or stressed to eat well? You may in fact feel that way with exams just around the corner. Think again! Good nutrition is an important stress management tool. When our bodies are poorly fed, stress takes an even greater toll on our health. Click here for some tips from Student Health on how to eat well during exams!

World AIDS Week November 29-December 3 The goal of World AIDS Week is to promote awareness and AIDS prevention. The 2004 World AIDS campaign "Have you heard me today?" focuses on how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic. December 1 is World AIDS day and celebrates progress made in the battle against the epidemic and brings to focus remaining challenges. There will be an event in New York City with guests including Mary Wilson, Gloria Reuben, and Kofi Annan. Other World AIDS Day events will be held around the globe.

UNC alumna Rachel Mazyck wins Rhodes Scholarship Rachel Mazyck, a 2002 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has won a 2005 Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England. She will use the scholarship to earn a doctorate of philosophy specializing in educational studies, which will enable her to continue the efforts she has already given to children and their future education. Mazyck brings to 38 the number of Rhodes Scholars from UNC since the program began in 1902.
Read more about Rachel Mazyck!
Read more about the Rhodes Scholarship!

STRETCH Conference 2004 The 3rd Annual STRETCH (STudents REaching Toward CHange) will be held Nov. 12-13 in the Student Union. The conference is an opportunity to acquire skills and meet the people that will help propel you through leadership in service at UNC and beyond. Events will include a Friday night social event, several distinguished speakers, and workshops on service.

North Carolina Campus Compact's Annual Student Conference NC Campus Compact's Annual Student Conference will be held on Saturday, Oct. 30 at Duke University. Students from across the state will come together to learn more about volunteer service, service-learning, and civic engagement. Register!

CONGRATULATIONS UNC BEST BUDDIES! Best Buddies International has recognized the UNC-Chapel Hill Best Buddies chapter with one of the ten Best Buddies Outstanding Chapter awards for the 2003-04 year.Visit Best Buddies International! Visit UNC-Chapel Hill Best Buddies!

Kristopher Jordan is a first year computer science major whose Bryan Fellowship, awarded through the Carolina Center for Public Service, combines his technology skills and his desire to improve education in his home of Rutherford County, NC. Kris desiged and built a website, NCKidScience.com, which is a resource for elementary school teachers and students preparing for the new end of grade test in Science. Read the press release

UNC Volunteer Fair 2003!
September 17 in the Pit
Students, Faculty & Staff: This is your chance to come out and meet with various community organizations in the Triangle area. Learn how you can have fun and get involved in service!

Leadership Transition Workshop and Dinner, took place on April 14, from 6:00 to 8:00pm. This event is sponsored by the Carolina Center for Public Service and the Carolina Union, and is geared toward both old and new leaders of (primarily) service organizations (or service oriented committees of groups). Registrationis limited and is on a first come, first served basis. Read about previous Transition Workshops here.

Campus Y Committee Needs Co-chairs
The Campus Y, home of social justic at UNC, is accepting applications for 2004-05 committee co-chaors. They have 16 committees, each focused on a particular social justice issue. Applications are available at the Campus Y website. The deadline is March 22.

Congratulations to the UNC Circle K Club!
The Carolina Center for Public Service would like to congratulate UNC Cirlcle K for receiving 10 awards at the 2004 Circle K District Convention.Read more about this great achievement

Shamrock 5K
Saturday, 2/28
Help prevent child abuse with Kappa Delta Sorority during their 11th annual Shamrock 5K Event. The 5K race will be held on Saturday, February 28 at the Kappa Delta house on Franklin St. Registration will be at 9am, and the race will start at 10am. Entertainment and prizes will follow after the race.Visit Kappa Delta's website for more info

National Teleconference on Student Civic Engagement
UNC is one of 58 sites across the nation hosting a teleconference and dialogue on civic and political engagement held on February 19 from 2-4pm in Carroll Hall. Following the teleconference, UNC
students will facilitate a dialogue on questions related to student civic and political participation. Click here to learn more about this important event. You must email ktysor@email.unc.edu by 2/17 to reserve a spot.

Narratives of HIV Series,
UNC-CH, 2/11 through 3/22
Take part in a very special series of HIV awareness events sponsored by the UNC-CH Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Journalism & Mass Communication. The series is designed to solicit discussion about how public health professionals and the media respond to the global HIV/AIDS crisis and to raise awareness of HIV prevention on the UNC campus. Click here for a calendar of events.

Volunteers For Youth Mentor Training, Feb. 4
With more than 60 children on Volunteers for Youth's mentor waiting list, the need for volunteers is greater than ever. The organization is especially in need of male volunteers, volunteers from central and northern Orange County, and African-American volunteers. If interested, contact (919) 967-4511 to sign up for this training.

Teach for America Seeking Recent Grads...Apply Today!
Do you want to change things? Help eliminate educational inequity. Teach For America calls upon recent graduates of all backgrounds and academic majors to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and to become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand opportunity for children. Visit www.teachforamerica.org for more info.

New Federally-funded HIV Program at UNC
The Center for Infectious Diseases at UNC-CH recently received a $1.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (DHHS) to fund a pilot program at UNC Hospitals’ Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic. The program plans to integrate prevention activities into treatment of HIV-infected individuals. Counseling and education efforts will be the heart of these prevention activities.

worldAIDSday
December 1, 2003
Help remember those we have lost to HIV/AIDS, those who are living now with HIV and those we as a community must continue to protect from HIV. Please join the Alliance of AID Services Carolina to commemorate this special day.