Subscribe
For 35 children from New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the Memorial Day weekend was packed with new and sometimes thrilling experiences — like riding horses on a working farm and creating collage squares for a “vision” quilt. The occasion was a three-day camp exploring the arts, identity, and health — organized by Berkeley students’ Magnolia Project and developed out of the campus’s new Shinnyo-en Peacebuilding Leadership Program.
Tag: Cal Corps Public Service Center
Local kids, with help from Oski, celebrate their BUILDing literacy skills
May 8, 2012:
In a noisy celebration at the YWCA on Monday, scores of young Berkeley Unified School District students met the campus mascot, Oski — and accepted certificates for work with UC Berkeley student mentors, through the BUILD program, to improve their reading skills.
Students take spring break for public service
April 10, 2012:
While many students kicked back or headed to the beach for spring break, more than 130 from UC Berkeley fanned out into communities near and far. These civic-minded students, working through the Alternative Breaks program, lent their skills to post-Katrina renewal in New Orleans and environmental justice in Oakland, among other projects.
Cal Corps’ Megan Voorhees garners statewide honor
February 22, 2012:
Megan Voorhees, director of Berkeley’s Cal Corps Public Service Center, has been named winner of the 2012 Richard E. Cone Award. The California Campus Compact, a statewide professional association, bestows the honor annually on an individual who has made important contributions to partnerships between communities and institutions of higher education.
With a foothold at Berkeley, ‘engaged scholarship’ goes where it’s needed
February 8, 2012:
Urban forester Lara Roman, a Berkeley grad student, is conducting multi-year research designed to help a Sacramento tree-planting program maximize cooling shade for the area’s hot summers. “Engaged scholarship” like Roman’s, increasingly popular with students, is part of the campus’s DNA. New forms of institutional support are helping it flourish.
