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Community engagement

Engagement at William & Mary is grounded in the curriculum, advanced through research and shared with multiple communities through direct outreach, through partnerships, and through student and public initiatives.

New features
manosMANOS: More than medical outreach in Nicaragua   /   Celebration of service  (video courtesy of Rashan Patel)   /   Kate Hibbs '10: Pregnancy, migrants and justice on the Eastern Shore   /   Home makeover: W&M edition 

Visions for engagement
drew stelljesSelected videos: Stelljes—Service-learning and community engagement at W&M   /   OCES: A developmental design   /   The future of engagement   /   Comey ('82) issues call to engagement: Opening convocation remarks
Selected stories: W&M named to Community Service Honor Roll with distinction    /   W&M scores well on sustainability report card   /    W&M dining services to compost food waste    /     W&M names Zapfel first sustainability fellow

Curricular engagement and research-based teaching
stockSelected videos:   Stock: Participating in the Cuban film revolution   /    Kaste and Hancock—Geology project has eye on the Bay   /   Cate-Arries—Mapping memory in Madrid   /   Aday—Beyond duffel-bag medicine
Selected stories: For whom the bell didn't toll   /   W&M students make historical find in Richmond   /   New program combines academics, service in South Africa

Community outreach
arcSelected videos: Students organize MLK Day readings, march   /    Economics forum #3: A sobering assessment for the New Year   /   Sororities and fraternities host 10th annual ARC festival
Selected stories:  Serghi brings music to Kenyan school   /   W&M named a top producer of Teach For America teachers   /   From shell to shell: Kids raise, release turtles   /   Students serve with governor on MLK Day   /   Space to dream: Alumni choose vocations of service   /   CVC seeks to 'give hope'


Student engagement

scorsSelected videos:
Student videographers document diversity of music in Williamsburg   /   Students celebrate MLK with day of service and learning   /   Citizen scientists: Physics students research sustainability on Small Hall   /   Tribe tennis teams help kick-off wheelchair challenge   /   AIDS Tanzania: Student group tackles tough challenge in Africa   /   Plot for sustainability: Students create campus garden
Selected stories:   Yates' work for Haiti just starting   /   Students make a difference, learn about the community   /   220 W&M students spend the day serving   /   Oller (’09) receives Monroe Prize in Civic Leadership   /   Action vs. protest: Perkey defends her generation   /  Students launch 'Campus Kitchen'

Public engagement
donaldsonSelected videos:   Lynching, Abu Ghraib and post-racial America: Donaldson edits journal   /   Cristol: Mercury goes up the food chain   /   Public policy: Flaws in the health-care-reform process   /     Brown v. Board is personal for law professors   /   Democracy in Afghanistan: Mullen says legitimacy is essential   /   The Road to Richmond
Selected stories:  W&M named a top producer of Peace Corps volunteers   /   VIMS researchers create interactive map of the Bay   /   ACE: Galano explains costs of a 'national shame'   /   Darwin across the disciplines