Learning on Fire by Maddie Talnagi ’20
Guest blogger Maddie Talnagi ’20 provides us an overview of the realities of public education in the United States. Talnagi was a student in my winter seminar, Urban Education. As Irish poet William...
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Rock Music Oman 2020 – The Crescent of Learning
I’m homeward bound after the 2020 edition of our Natural History & Contemporary Culture of Oman (a.k.a. Rock Music Oman) course. For the past two weeks, 23 intrepid W&M students joined us for a...
View ArticleGoing to William & Mary from Out-of-State
NOVA? DMV? Nats? Caps? What do all these terms mean? As an out-of-state student, coming to William & Mary was a bit of a culture shock. I am from Marietta, Georgia which is a suburb of Atlanta. The...
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In the Field with Mobile Microinsurance
By Maisie Sapner ’20, Laura Schwartz ’20 and Elizabeth Sutterlin ’20 Our team led by mentor Professor Phil Roessler, competed for Shark Tank funding to conduct a field experiment in Kenya aimed at...
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Because of Community: Professor Jennifer Bickham Mendez
This post is written by Caitlyn Whitesell ’20, who serves as the communication intern for OCE. She interviewed Professor Jennifer Bickham-Mendez in Fall 2019. Professor Bickham-Mendez researches Latinx...
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Pen Pals Enhance Civic Agency and Connections During Pandemic
Guest blogger Sonia Kinkhabwala ’21 shares the story of how Pen Pals went from an idea to a program in a few days during the COVID-19 pandemic. In acclimating to my new community of Williamsburg, one...
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Inclusive Excellence – Supporting Student Veterans Transition at William & Mary
Guest blogger Charlie Foster shares the past, present, and future of support for student veterans at W&M. Student veterans lead the way. In 2014-2015, a group of William & Mary students sought...
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Welcome to the Tribe!
Hey everyone! As we are sure you already know, transfer application decisions are going out this week! This is the moment you all have been waiting for; the moment where all your hard work and hours...
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ABC Project develops alternative cross-cultural engagement initiatives in...
By Ethan Brown ’21 The past two months have been challenging for every William & Mary community member. COVID-19 has suspended in person classes, distanced students from our beloved Williamsburg,...
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Celebrating Active Citizenship
Closing her letter to students this year, Melody Porter, Director of The Office of Community Engagement, wrote: Your actions this year and throughout your lives are powerful. We are so impressed and...
View ArticleA Call to Action
In the past week, it feels to me as though the world has been flipped on its head. Watching the news almost feels like watching a movie in history class on the Civil Rights Movement. When we rang in...
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A Women-Powered Team of Six Paves the Way for Human Rights Research at W&M
By Alexandra Byrne ’23 I find it hard to believe that anyone who is a student at William & Mary would not know the Global Research Institute’s slogan: “Big Ideas Live Here.” It is in big letters on...
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From Policy to the Real World: An Undergraduates Experience with PIPS
By Jahnavi Prahala ’22 Right before I joined The Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS), an undergraduate think tank based at W&M’s Global Research Institute, I found myself approaching...
View ArticleJuneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom
Recently, there has been talk of a prevalent holiday in the African American community known as Juneteenth. While it has always been an important celebrated holiday in my household it has been brought...
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A W&M Sophomore’s Experience Conducting Research in Tanzania Through GRI
By Ethan Harrison ’20 “Alright, Ethan you’re up!” — with those words, I (nervously) began to present the research I had worked on for the majority of my time at William & Mary. The usual suspects...
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Separate but Connected: Summer with the Global Research Institute
By Maggie Manson ’22 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and universities throughout the world had to transition to virtual learning, many students were faced with uncertainty regarding many aspects of...
View ArticleMoney Matters
For the last five months I have been working to make sustainable anti-racism changes in my life. Having read a lot of internet lists about actions to take, one item that stood out was banking locally...
View ArticleLearning to Transgress
How do I tell the story of five Office of Community Engagement colleagues reading bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress? I can tell you that the setting was a weekly Zoom discussion, sometimes infiltrated...
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Fall 2020 Book Report
Those who know me personally know I love to read. I once created a Facebook album (back when those were a thing) just of photos of me reading. Early in the pandemic, I even recreated some classic book...
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What I Learned from “Teaching Race”
Continuing our commitment to anti-racist learning and action, Office of Community Engagement staff recently finished reading Teaching Race: Helping Students Unmask and Challenge Racism, by Stephen...
View ArticleRunning Your Race – A Syllabus for Well-Being
Guest blogger, Pietro Marino ’23 writes about his running journey as part of life at W&M. We know that accomplishment includes the concepts of perseverance and having a passion to attain goals....
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Diving Deep: A Fresh Look at Internships & Fellowship Opportunities
By Colleen Norton ’21 In the summer of 2020, the murder of George Floyd sparked demonstrations across the U.S. in support of the countless minorities, specifically Black people, that have been subject...
View ArticleSkills of Freedom
A year ago, I gave this assignment to students in my community engagement course: Select and practice one skill that you believe will support your own growth and freedom and/or your work for the...
View ArticleAccessing Active Citizenship
Two years ago, I wrote about the member mentality and the Active Citizens Continuum which describes how our perspective on community engagement can change. When I was first introduced to active...
View Article10 Newly Recognized Student Organizations to Look Out for Next Semester (Fall...
William & Mary boasts more than 450 officially recognized extracurricular clubs, including 200+ special interest groups and nearly 50 unique culture/identity-based clubs. Being officially...
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