Students
Is the International Young Scholars Program for You?
Would you like to work with high school students in the Syracuse City School Distract who have emigrated to the United States in many cases escaping severe political repression, poverty, and civil rights injustices? If this sounds like a challenge you would like to take on, then you need to check out the International Young…
Read MoreWhere to Go When You Need Help Finding Civic Engagement Opportunities
Help is at hand if you need support finding and arranging civic engagement projects. This blog is of course a great resource of information, and you can always stop by my office to discuss your civic engagement passions, confusions and aspirations. Here are two additional on-campus places to explore: The Shaw Center for Public and Community…
Read MoreLove Horses?
Here’s yet another really great place to serve and earn civic engagement hours: Sunshine Horses From their webpage: Many of our horses are retired Standardbred racehorses, but we also welcome horses of other breeds into our program. Most of the retired Standardbreds come to us because they lacked the desire or skill to be…
Read More2012 Block Blitz – Want to make a difference?
Home HeadQuarters 2012 Block Blitz Friday, September 14th, 9am-4pm Target neighborhoods: Syracuse’s Southside and Near Westside Yet another excellent civic enagement project that is a one day event: When I worked with Syracuse’s low income credit union, Home HeadQuarters was responsive and responsible to the needs of low income homeowners and want-to-be homeowners. I’d…
Read MoreFood, Discussion and Civic Engagement Hours
Are you planning to participate in the campus wide Eat 4 Peace programs and earn civic engagement hours? Don’t forget there is a volunteer meeting tomorrow! Record this time for credit as well. An ET4Peace Volunteer Information Meeting is this Friday, September 7th, 4:15pm, in the Tolley Building 2nd floor library.
Read More10 volunteer hours needed!!!
Kindred Kingdoms Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Pennellville, NY needs 10 hours of volunteer labor cleaning, wrapping perches for birds, etc. I need you to contact me and let me know you want to take part and I will arrange transportation. Respond to this post or email me: kjhall@syr.edu.
Read MoreKeep those Civic Engagement hours coming!!
Students have been submitting hours from service contributed around the world. Avoiding logging your hours because you don’t know how to get a supervisor’s signature? Here’s how to do it: Email a copy of the form (you received a copy via email), supervisor signs, scans and sends back to you and you email it to kjhall@syr.edu…
Read MoreThe Honors Reference Librarians!
Hello Honors Community! The Honors Program is now fortunate to have two reference librarians designated specifically to serve our students! Below is a bit more about Camille and Abby. Please do bring any and all of your research questions to them as they are eager to help you! Camille Chesley and Abby Kasowitz-Scheer are pleased to serve…
Read MoreWelcome to Our House!
You might not think the facilities of The Renée Crown University Honors Program look like a house. If anything our setup in Bowne Hall looks like a suite of offices you might find in a professional building devoted to law or medicine. As the director of Honors at Syracuse I can assure you this is…
Read MoreJERK Magazine Recruiting Now!
Hello Honors Community, Today we have a message from student, Chelsea Perry, who is part of the Jerk Magazine team and would like to let everyone know about an opportunity to get involved with this on-campus publication! Sooooo…here she is: To Whom It May Concern, My name is Chelsey Perry and I am…
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