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Funding Opportunity – Caswell & Lenoir Counties

March 22, 2010

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. Non-profit organizations working on education/community development in Lenoir and Caswell Counties may be eligible for up to $20,000 in grant funds. Application … Read more

Student Corner: *UPDATE* CCP Provides Small Grant to Promote Healthy Lifestyles Among Caswell Youth

March 18, 2010

Kendra Cotton is a Project Director with the Community-Campus Partnership Program. The Community-Campus Partnership has awarded a small grant in support of  three UNC graduate student researchers working to explore the social, structural, and environmental factors that facilitate or prevent County y … Read more

CareerStart brings STEM career relevance to middle school classrooms

March 12, 2010

This is a guest post from Dr. Dennis Orthner, Professor of Social Work and Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. The topic of this post is CareerStart, an effective and low-cost education intervention that ties middle school lesson plans to information about careers, including those in Science, Technology, … Read more

Summer Internships – UNC Undergraduate and Graduate Students – Marketing, Communications and Public Relations

February 26, 2010

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. The Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) at the UNC School of Government is seeking two student interns (one graduate and one upper-class undergraduate) for the s … Read more

Student Corner: Yanceyville Open House

February 25, 2010

John Killeen is a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning working in Caswell County. This evening (Thursday February 25), a public event will be held celebrating the official opening of Yanceyville’s new civic facility. Starting at 5pm, the public is invited to join town cou … Read more

Student Corner: Public health students seek to understand what facilitates and hampers a healthy lifestyle among Caswell County youth

February 21, 2010

Peter Balvanz is a graduate student in the Department of Health Behaviors and Health Education at the School of Public Health Since September of last year a small group of students from the UNC School of Public Health’s Department of Health Behaviors and Health Education have been conducting a healt … Read more

Asset building in Lenoir County

February 15, 2010

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community-Campus Partnership and Associate Director for the Community & Economic Development Program. The Lenoir-Greene County Partnership for Children, the Little Bank, and Southeast Elementary School in Kinston operate a unique, local asset building program fo … Read more

Student Corner: Harvey Beech Papers – Meeting with Pam Beech Whaley

February 12, 2010

Adam Parker is a Masters Student of Public Administration and a graduate student assistant working with Lenoir County. On February 10th, Community Campus Partnership Intern Adam Parker and Southern Historical Collection Director Tim West met with Pam Beech Whaley, the daughter of Harvey Beech. The m … Read more

Insights from the Emerging Issues Forum

February 10, 2010

  Rick Morse is a School of Government faculty member. I just returned from the Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh (February 8-9) and am still, as they say, “taking it all in.” The theme this year was creativity and the program was loaded with some of the leading thinkers (and doers) on this topic in … Read more

Student Corner: CCP Executive Committee Meeting

February 5, 2010

Kendra Cotton is a Project Director with the Community-Campus Partnership Program. On January 27, 2010, campus and community stakeholders came together to discuss the objectives of the Community-Campus Partnership (CCP). Approximately 20 local leaders from Caswell and Lenoir Counties came together w … Read more