Allingtown Cleanup Brings Student to the Community
Nicole Manall, Contributing Writer
April 10, 2018
Filed under Student Life
On Saturday, April 7, University of New Haven students participated in a cleanup of Allingtown, Conn. The cleanup, organized by the Office of Community Service, is in its fourth year. Around 150 students and faculty from the university and Notre Dame High School students participated in this ev...
Box City on Hold… For Now
November 25, 2015
Filed under Campus News and Events, University of New Haven
Here in college, most of us are subjecting ourselves to thousands of dollars of debt and desperately hoping that we will find jobs to pay back that debt and establish a lifestyle. For many, student loans are a prison sentence, confining us to a lifestyle of working only to pay off debt that we have no...
President’s Public Service Fellows Reflect on their Summers
September 2, 2015
Filed under University of New Haven
On Aug. 28, the nine 2015 President’s Public Service Fellows reflected on their summer experience after participating in the fellowship for its seventeenth year at the University of New Haven in front of a group of their peers, supervisors, professors, university staff and past fellows. The ...
Sorority blues
February 25, 2015
Filed under Opinion & Editorials
“81 other people are better than you” just keeps going through my head, and it’s like a mantra of failure. Over and over, I see pictures of their happiness, acceptance, and messages of congratulations, so every day I am reminded of the number of people that have been selected to be a part of...
Turning Community Service into a Lifelong Career
March 13, 2013
Filed under Campus News and Events, University of New Haven
When students think of volunteering, they see it as a task that looks nice on resumes, but it typically does not extend much further than that. Many are unaware that lifelong careers can be cultivated from working in nonprofit fields such as the Red Cross or Salvation Army. On Monday, March 4, UNH’...
A Salute to UNH Students
April 18, 2012
Filed under Opinion & Editorials
I graduated from "New Haven College" in 1968 after a stint in the military. Pete Peterson was our President, and I had the distinct pleasure of taking several classes from Dr. Phil Kaplan- a renowned historian and economist. There were no dorms then, and everyone had a job of sort after school. Fiftee...
UNH Honored by U.S. President for Community Service
April 11, 2012
Filed under Campus News and Events, University of New Haven
UNH’s commitment to experimental education and service-learning projects has earned the university a place on the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. For the fifth consecutive year, UNH has been awarded the highest federal recognition a college or university can recei...
Chris Brown begins community service in Virginia
September 17, 2009
Filed under Music
From The Associated Press Chris Brown cleared weeds and debris at police horse stables in Virginia on Wednesday for the first day of his 180-day court-ordered community service for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna. The 20-year-old R&B singer worked along with two others who were serving probatio...