Chancellor Thorp honored with endowment to support UNC faculty

Posted on: March 26th, 2013

H. Holden Thorp, UNC’s outgoing chancellor, has been honored with the establishment of the Chancellor Holden Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Endowment at the Carolina Center for Public Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The endo …

Faculty Engaged Scholars and APPLES Service-Learning faculty receive teaching honors

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Twenty-four instructors in 18 different departments or schools, received 2013 University Teaching Awards at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the highest campus-wide recognition for teaching excellence. Five of those recognized are connected to CCPS programs as either Faculty Engaged Scholars or faculty for APPLES service-learning courses.

Faculty Engaged Scholars Lauterer and Nguyen engage the Carolina Way

Posted on: February 25th, 2013

The News & Observer By John Drescher — Executive Editor Community Journalism student Lucie Shelly (right) mentors high school journalist Anna Aguilar of the Southern Scoop of Southern High School in Durham.Jock Lauterer Jock Lauterer was stunned an …

Classroom is community for Faculty Engaged Scholar Della Pollock

Posted on: January 23rd, 2013

Faculty Engaged Scholar and communication studies professor Della Pollock was collecting the stories of alumni of Chapel Hill’s former all-black high school for an oral history project when one man’s statement caught her off guard. “He said, ‘Y’all have studied the hell out of the black community and …

Faculty Engaged Scholars connect scholarship to community

Posted on: January 3rd, 2013

Making scholarship available to others is exactly what Jill Hamilton was aiming for when she placed her research in Good Housekeeping’s November 2012 issue. Hamilton was one of 10 people recently selected for the Faculty Engaged Scholars program, an initiative by the Carolina Center for Public Service designed to advance faculty involvement in the scholarship of engagement.

Faculty Engaged Scholar Patricia Garrett-Peters helps refugee children

Posted on: December 14th, 2012

With a passion for helping a vulnerable refugee population, Faculty Engaged Scholar Dr. Patricia Garrett-Peters, a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and scientist with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, has …

Faculty Engaged Schoalr Ashley Lucas talks about Razor Wire Women

Posted on: October 13th, 2012

Ashley Lucas keeps thinking about certain people holding her new book for the first time — incarcerated women and their families. That’s because it’s their book, too, filled with their artwork, poems and brutally honest essays about life behind prison …