The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement proudly hosts a free, monthly seminar in partnership with the Renaissance Retirement Center in Austin Texas. Invited speakers are leaders in their respective fields and represent a variety of academic departments throughout The University of Texas at Austin. Each presenter shares their recent research… read more
Community Engagement Lecture Series: Geo science Focus by Jay Banner
The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement proudly hosts a free, monthly seminar in partnership with the Renaissance Retirement Center in Austin Texas. Invited speakers are leaders in their respective fields and represent a variety of academic departments throughout The University of Texas at Austin. Each presenter shares their recent research or academic interests and… read more
Community Engagement Lecture Series: Creative Art Therapies by Vicki Packheiser
The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement proudly hosts a free, monthly seminar in partnership with the Renaissance Retirement Center in Austin Texas. Invited speakers are leaders in their respective fields and represent a variety of academic departments throughout The University of Texas at Austin. Each presenter shares their recent research… read more
Updated Volunteer Event Listing System
We have updated our volunteer event listing system! Over the summer, we transitioned utvolunteers.org to an updated, more user-friendly format. The new system, from Austin-based GivePulse, has all the capabilities we need in recruiting and informing volunteers about local agencies and causes. In addition, the system provides event management tools… read more
What Counts in an Accounting Class with Service-Learning
This summer, Gabriel de la Torre will be taking sign language classes—and his inspiration was a spring semester Accounting class. As part of Professor Brian Lendecky’s Accounting 366P class, de la Torre and 200 other UT students helped to file 18,310 tax returns for low-income residents, resulting in a total… read more
Service-Learning Class Goes to Washington
This past fall semester, the Longhorn Center for Community Engagement reported that Dr. Kara Hallmark’s service-learning visual arts class displayed almost 10,000 artificial clay bones on UT’s South Mall to raise awareness about mass atrocities around the globe. This class was a part of the nationally recognized One Million Bones… read more
Honoring 2013 Tower Award Recipients
On May 1, 2013 the Longhorn Center for Community Engagement honored the following Tower Awards recipients. The Tower Awards are presented annually to honor excellence in volunteerism at The University of Texas at Austin; a tradition which began in 1998. Today the ceremony recognizes students, faculty, and staff of the… read more
Celebrating Service-Learning and Civic Engagement with the LCCE!
The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement is excited to host a week of events celebrating service-learning and civic engagement. Please mark your calendars and let your friends and colleagues know! United to Serve is a system-wide initiative of The University of Texas to unite all of the campuses in service. Every spring since… read more
Update: Volunteer Fair Reschedule!
Due to a forecast for inclement weather on Wednesday, 2/6, we postponed our Spring 2013 Volunteer Fair. Although the weather turned out to be beautiful most of the day, the forecast predicted a 90% chance of rain through 3pm, and we didn’t want to chance it! The fair will take… read more
ASL Spotlights Professor Diana Dawson
A journalist by profession, Diana Dawson knew that covering social issues meant she had to be out in the field to hear the stories of people living the problems. Now, as an instructor for the School of Journalism at UT-Austin she incorporates this into her inter-disciplinary Senior Fellow’s seminar called… read more