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News Archive
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10/20/09
The Lipscomb University SALT Project (Serving and Learning Together) has awarded the 2009 Community Partner of the Year Awards to the Tennessee Prison for Women, Youth Life Learning Centers and the Book’em program. Each organization received a cash award towards their partnership with Lipscomb and a plaque.
These organizations have partnered with the university to help Lipscomb students experience outside-of-the-classroom settings and interactions. Keep Reading |
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10/19/09
Lipscomb University’s Serving and Learning Together (SALT) program partnered with Youth Life Foundation of Tennessee (YLFT) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to offer development training and networking opportunities for professionals championing the cause of at-risk youth in inner-city Nashville. Keep Reading
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7/8/09
After passing 18 hours of college-level courses at Lipscomb University through the LIFE Program (Lipscomb Initiative for Learning), 14 inmates of the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPW) felt like it was time for an extra-curricular activity.
Last year they had been impressed by Lipscomb’s literary journal, Exordium. So in 2009, they decided to establish their own: “Chiaroscuro,” a literary journal of more than 20 poems, essays and drawings by women incarcerated in the Tennessee Prison for Women. Keep Reading |
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4/28/09
This semester Marcia Stewart's course, Books: Passport to Adventure, worked to promote and encourage reading in local elementary schools.
At the beginning of the semester, each student researched a children's literature author, and dressed up as one of the characters created by that author. The students visited David Lipscomb Elementary School and Charlotte Park Elementary School (a school with a high percentage of students eligible for free and reduced lunch). Keep Reading
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4/15/09
For the second year in a row, the Corporation for National and Community Service has honored Lipscomb University with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities. Keep Reading
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4/15/09
Take a look at Jessica Ohgren’s resume and you may think she majored in volunteerism, rather than business management. This May the honor student expects to graduate with her business degree and with the honor of becoming Lipscomb’s first SALT Scholar. Keep Reading
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3/5/09
Traditionally public relations courses are taught by the analysis of case studies, where students examine and consider what PR practitioners have done in the past.
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2/9/09
The Corporation for National and Community Service has recognized Lipscomb University’s commitment to civic engagement by naming Lipscomb to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The list, which includes national powerhouses such as Stanford, Tulane, Elon, and Georgetown universities, recognizes institutions for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities. Keep Reading
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1/27/09
Author and Christian ethics professor Shaun Casey urged representatives of 73 local nonprofit organizations to “engage in ego disarmament” and come together to serve the poor better in the coming years, during his lunch keynote speech at the Collaborate for a Cause conference Tuesday. Keep Reading
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Reframing the Community forum: The TN Prison for Women and the Lipscomb Initiative for Education
12/8/08 Last semester the SALT program hosted
an informational forum highlighting the work of art professor Laura Lake Smith and the 15 students in her course, The Power of Art. The event gave students the chance to discuss their experience taking the course alongside inmates at the Tennessee Prison for women through the LIFE (Lipscomb Initiative for Education) program. Each semester the LIFE program brings Lipscomb students and inmates at the TPFW together to study a liberal arts topic. Keep Reading |
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TN Prison for Women students show Lowry impact of LU program on their lives
12/4/08 “I knew that I wanted the opportunity to get a college education; I just didn’t realize that it would be so much more.” Such were the sentiments of Shayne Lovera , one of 15 inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPFW), who has earned 18 undergraduate credit hours at Lipscomb University over the past two years through an innovative program that brings traditional students and the inmates of the prison together to study a liberal arts topic. Keep Reading |
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Graduates in state women's prison to be inspired by Lipscomb president
11/26/08 More than 90 inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPFW) who have worked hard hitting the books over the past year will be honored Wednesday, Dec. 3, with a commencement ceremony featuring guest speaker Lipscomb University President L. Randolph Lowry. Keep Reading |
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Lipscomb hosts first TNCC state-wide workshop
11/14/08 Service-learning practitioners from across the state will be convening on Lipscomb’s campus on November 13th for the first ever Tennessee Campus Compact state-wide workshop. The workshop will bring together the leadership of 30 colleges and universities to discuss and learn more about service-learning initiatives. Keep Reading |
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Lipscomb takes lead in service-learning in state and nation, says U.S. News
10/31/08 Lipscomb was recently cited in the U.S. News and World Report “2009 America’s Best Colleges” guidebook as one of 25 universities in the nation with an outstanding service-learning program. The 25 listed universities, including national powerhouses such as Duke, Stanford, Tulane and Brown universities, were nominated by university presidents, academic officers and deans across the nation as stellar examples of service-learning initiatives. Keep Reading |
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Management Comm. students work with teens at Youth Life Learning Center
10/28/08 Charades, personality surveys, personal stories, a formal dinner and a “Dress for Success” fashion show are just a few of the innovative ways a group of 53 Lipscomb University students are teaching at-risk youth in Nashville how to someday apply for college, interview for a job and interact in the working world. Keep Reading |
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Lipscomb hosts nonprofit organizations for local service fair
9/17/08 Partnering with nonprofit agencies and serving together in our community has been woven into the campus life since the early days of Lipscomb University. We have now joined a handful of universities such as California State University-Monterey Bay and Columbia University that have added service learning as a graduation requirement. To assist students in finding opportunities for mission opportunities or service opportunities to fulfill their service learning credits, the SALT Program and Missions Program hosted the sixth Local Service Fair on campus on Tuesday. Keep Reading |
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SALT program launches this fall, kicks off with Healing Hands project
9/5/08 This fall brings a number of “firsts” to Lipscomb – first apartment housing, record enrollment, first pharmacy students – but it also brings the continuation and enrichment of a long-standing tradition at Lipscomb: selfless service. |
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Valentine's month brings chance for new connections in service, as well as love
2/13/08 Service-learning is a lot like dating. Apparently it’s all about connections. That’s what Lipscomb University faculty recently learned at a networking session for community service organizations conducted “speed-dating” style on campus. |
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SALT featured in guide of nation's top service-learning programs
8/24/08 Lipscomb University’s new service-learning program, The SALT Project, has barely begun and already it’s adding some spice to Lipscomb’s academic record. |
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