This Academic Community Engagement seminar will provide examples of successful engaged scholarship used in promotion and tenure, the impact of this change on a land-grant institution, and tips on documenting and framing community engagement.
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Beginning Jan. 22, two eight-week sessions will be offered at the Student Rec Center to climbers ages 5 to 12. Attendees will learn about strength and endurance, safety and bouldering, as well as life skills such as teamwork, problem solving and communication.
To help combat the shortage of emergency medical service providers in West Virginia and across the nation, WVU Extension will offer a free emergency medical technician course from Jan. 26 through May 13.
The hour-long training will help attendees better understand the process of recovery, confront stigma related to addiction and use appropriate language when discussing substance use and eating disorders and other mental health and behavioral concerns.
Join “A Taste of Olli” at 3 p.m. today (Jan. 9) on Zoom or Facebook Live for an introduction to the program, course descriptions provided by instructors and a Q&A segment.
Join the WVU Center for Black Culture and Research in honoring the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16, in the Mountainlair Ballroom. Eric Deggans, NPR's first full-time TV critic and adjunct instructor of journalism and public policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, will serve as this year’s keynote speaker.