By: Haley Paez, Undergraduate Student, Psychology & Journalism During the 2019-2020 academic year, I was fortunate to be able to continue my community engagement for a second year with the help of DU Grand Challenges and an Advancing Community-Engaged (ACE) Student Scholarship Grant. In 2019, I began a nutrition education project with the Denver Rescue … Continue reading Tackling Grand Challenges: Creating a Sustainable Partnership Through Sustainable Actions
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Tackling Grand Challenges: An Open A Community Table Imagining a Just and Sustainable Future – Post-COVID-19
By: Katie Kleinhesselink, DU Grand Challenges Program Manager, CCESL It’s hard to believe, but there are just four weeks left to host or participate in A Community Table conversation! If you’ve not had the chance to register, head over to http://www.du.edu/table now! Speaking of participating in A Community Table, we’re excited to highlight an open … Continue reading Tackling Grand Challenges: An Open A Community Table Imagining a Just and Sustainable Future – Post-COVID-19
Tackling Grand Challenges: Advancing Community Engagement-Growing Together
By: Cate Daniels, undergraduate student, International Studies Thanks to funding from an Advancing Comunity Engaged (ACE) student scholars grant, my project partner and I were able to establish a program called Growing Together. We worked together with two of the local STRIVE Prep charter schools. These institutions provide a quality education for kindergartener through 12th … Continue reading Tackling Grand Challenges: Advancing Community Engagement-Growing Together
Bridging Learning and Doing: University of Denver Nature Challenge-I’ve Been Bio-Blizted!
By Corey Martz, graduate student, Department of Geography While many of us probably think of the University of Denver (DU) as a community of amazing students, faculty, and staff – a DU interdisciplinary team is encouraging us to expand how we imagine our community to include the nature that surrounds us. Our team consists of … Continue reading Bridging Learning and Doing: University of Denver Nature Challenge-I’ve Been Bio-Blizted!
Tackling Grand Challenges: Collective Impact Cohorts Moving Into Action
In January, the University of Denver (DU) announced the launch of four Collective Impact Cohorts to bring together university-community teams for the Action phase of DU Grand Challenges Improving Daily Living theme. The teams include undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, faculty, and community members. Each Cohort has been charged with building a shared agenda and … Continue reading Tackling Grand Challenges: Collective Impact Cohorts Moving Into Action
Tackling Grand Challenges: Announcing Collective Impact Cohorts
The University of Denver (DU) is taking an innovative, community-engaged approach to its institution-wide grand challenge initiative. Programming across DU Grand Challenges is grounded in principles of mutually beneficial and reciprocal community-university collaboration. This community-engaged approach is highlighted in the Collective Impact Cohorts, which bring together community and university voices to develop and implement an … Continue reading Tackling Grand Challenges: Announcing Collective Impact Cohorts
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