Service in Society

Interactive, 1-hour seminars featuring faculty and community partners involved in academic community engagement.

fall 2012 series :

Download the 2012 Service in Society program flier.

Building Partnerships and Collecting Data at the Charlottesville City Market

Paul Freedman, Associate Professor, Department of Politics

Cecile Gorham, Market Central

Carla Jones, graduate student, Urban & Environmental Planning
Thursday, Sept. 20, 4 - 5 p.m., Kaleidoscope, Newcomb Hall

Building a Habitat for Inter-Faith Learning and Inter-Cultural Service

Peter Ochs, Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Dan Rosensweig, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
Tuesday, Oct. 2, 4 - 5 p.m., Kaleidoscope, Newcomb Hall

Building Mutually Beneficial University-Community Partnerships

Christine Mahoney, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

Nate Daugherty and Pin-Hsuan "Katy" Lai, graduate students, Batten
Thursday, Oct. 25, 4 - 5 p.m., Kaleidoscope, Newcomb Hall

Prof. Mahoney will discuss the development of programs and projects that create opportunities for students to get hands-on real-world experience but that also provide outputs that are of need to community partners. In this way, students became a force-multiplier for mission-based organizations and city agencies rather than a resource-drain.

Along with Batten MPP students Nate Daugherty and Pin-Hsuan "Katy" Lai, Prof. Mahoney will discuss how a grant writing project in her course, "Political Institutions and Policymaking," provided new and needed research on funding opportunities for local non-profits and public-private partnerships, drafted grant proposals, and ultimately landed a $20,000 grant for a prison re-entry program run by the NGO OAR to help ex-felons on the road to becoming responsible, engaged community members.

For more information on the grant-writing course and the local inmate re-entry program, please see the following articles:

1. http://news.virginia.edu/content/win-win-local-nonprofits-students-both-gain-grant-writing-course
2. http://www.batten.virginia.edu/content/news-events/student-project-nets-20000-local-inmate-re-entry-program

Careers in Service and Development*

Maggie Kirkpatrick, Jack of all Trades, Building Tomorrow, SEAS '08

Ross Baird, Executive Director, Village Capital, CLAS '07

Cliff Maxwell, Center for International Studies, Peace Corps '78-80, Nepal
Thursday, Nov. 13, 4 - 5 p.m., Kaleidoscope, Newcomb Hall

Interact with U.Va. alums who are now working in the service and community engagement fields!

*This panel is a part of International Education Week, hosted by the International Studies Office and presented in conjunction with the Asia Institute.

Register here or use the form below.

Program hosted by the Office of the Vice President and Chief of Student Affairs Officer and the Jefferson Public Citizens Program.