By Kirsten J. BarnesCCBP Graduate Assistant Looking back after six months in her new job as director of Crossroads Community Center, Lane Busby McLelland, the former assistant director of New College, is excited by her new responsibilities, which she sees as an opportunity to apply all her academic and life experiences to the challenges facing…
By Kirsten J. BarnesCCBP Graduate Assistant In about a year from now, Dr. Melanie Miller will have worked for The University of Alabama for 20 years, but she still maintains a youthful outlook about her work, possibly because so much of that time has been spent working with young people both inside and outside of…
By Kirsten J. BarnesCCBP Graduate Assistant Dr. Beverly G. Hawk is not new to The University of Alabama or the Division of Community Affairs. In fact, she retired in 2013 after six years as director of UA’s Crossroads Community Center, but she could not let her time at UA end there. So, when the opportunity…
By Kirsten J. BarnesCCBP Graduate Assistant The Center for Community-Based Partnerships celebrated its big day on Friday, April 26, at Hotel Capstone on the UA campus, recognizing the year’s top projects and scholars, while taking a look back on the University’s most successful year ever in the engagement scholarship field. Here are some of the…
By Sirui ShaoCCBP Intern Fan Yang began her Heart Touch project this semester with the aim of enhancing cultural competency and to contribute to greater understanding and knowledge of other ethnic groups. Heart Touch connects primary school students between America and China by providing opportunities for them to communicate through writing letters as pen pals.…
By Kirsten J. Barnes Graduate Assistant Center for Community-Based Partnerships (Editor's Note: Work by two engineering professors at The University of Alabama provides insights into the field of engaged scholarship, while also highlighting aspects of a sister discipline, service-learning.) Reflecting on their years at UA, the husband and wife engineering team of Dr. Philip Johnson…
