Carolina Engagement Week returns for a second year from February 27 through March 3, 2023. Join us for statewide community-driven partnerships powered by state and local community leaders and Carolina faculty, staff and students.
2022 Carolina Engagement Week offered a mix of in-person, hybrid, virtual and on-demand events.
Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz discusses Carolina Engagement Week and the University’s commitment to partnering with North Carolina’s communities to support good work in all 100 counties of our state.
Participants learned how to empower and educate the community for the 2022 primary election season. This event was sponsored by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Mi Pueblo and You Can Vote.
This presentation demonstrated a research-practice partnership between the STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center (STEMIE) at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Kidzu Children’s Museum in Chapel Hill.
At this panel discussion, participants will learn about how Fayetteville State University is leveraging over $175 million of st ate appropriations to build economic resilience in the broader Cumberland County Region. FSU is a partner of NCGrowth's AICER (Anchor Institutions … Continued
This event is hosted by the UNC Lead for NC Project. Since 2019, Lead for NC has placed 75 young people in 68 communities across North Carolina. The impact of these partnerships is extraordinary program participants have secured more than … Continued
This event will be a service event co-hosted by the Carolina Community Garden and APPLES Service-Learning. Participants will learn about the garden, volunteer in the garden and then take part in a reflection exercise. The event will be interactive and … Continued
The panel discussion will feature a variety of undergraduate students and graduate students who participate in the Civic Engagement Working Group. They will be joined by Leadership Development Program Coordinator Natasha Young in answering questions moderated by Ryan Nilsen from … Continued
Through this workshop, participants will be introduced to the Marian Cheek Jackson Center's oral history methodology in npushing against the exploitative relationship between community members and academic researchers. Throughout the academic year, the Marian Cheek Jackson Center hosts workshops to … Continued
During the 2022-2023 academic year, the Department of Health Science’s Community Practice Lab (CPL) in the UNC School of Medicine is partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, NC (Habitat) to inform Habitat’s neighborhood engagement efforts in communities. The … Continued
This talk will examine the historical and contemporary impacts that solid waste facilities have on communities of color in North Carolina and reflect on the 40-year history of environmental justice organizing around waste facilities in the United States. Courtney Woods … Continued
