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MWEE Partner of Excellence Award Honors Allegheny College’s Creek Connections Program

by Paige Penfield March 30th 2022

Allegheny College’s Creek Connections program has been awarded the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) Partner Award for its work throughout western Pennsylvania and dozens of schools in the Ohio River Basin. The award is presented annually by the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators (PAEE). The MWEE is a learner-centered curricular framework that focuses on student

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Allegheny College Graduate Emily Kauchak Journeys into PULSE To Enrich Pittsburgh Communities

by Paige Penfield November 17th 2021

Emily Kauchak ’21 sees a clear — and powerful — connection between study and service. While attending Allegheny College, Kauchak shaped her experience not only by majoring in environmental science and minoring in Spanish, but also by becoming involved in the surrounding region. She worked closely with the Crawford County Mental Health Awareness Program, supported local

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Photos: College, Community Volunteers Partner to Make a Difference

by Allegheny College News Center October 18th 2021

Allegheny College and community volunteers collaborated on Make A Difference Day service projects throughout Crawford County on Sat., Oct. 16, 2021. View photos from the event:

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Andy Walker Tapped to Lead Local and Regional Economic and Revitalization Efforts for Allegheny College

by Allegheny College News Center February 17th 2021

Andy Walker, a prominent Meadville and regional community leader and a 2000 graduate of Allegheny College, has been named as the inaugural executive director for economic, civic and community engagement at the college. He will assume his new position on April 5, 2021. Reporting to Matthew Stinson, vice president for institutional advancement, Walker will provide

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Allegheny College Offers New Civic Engagement Program for Students

by Richard Stanley January 25th 2021

Allegheny College has taken two of its most successful civic-engagement programs and merged them into a single initiative designed to impact the Meadville region through community-based projects addressing economic development and educational preparedness. The Davies and Fahrner Civic Impact Scholars program is a new, expanded and combined version of the Davies Community Service Leaders program

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Allegheny College Volunteers Collect Supplies for Local Food Pantries

by Richard Stanley December 17th 2020

Volunteers from Allegheny College’s Civic Engagement Office collected food and other supplies from 37 households in the Meadville area on Dec. 10 to help local food pantries supply families in need with non-perishable goods during the holiday season. The socially distant front-door food drive, which collected enough food and other supplies to fill a room,

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Join Allegheny’s Civic Engagement Office in Supporting Local Food Pantries

by Richard Stanley December 7th 2020

The Allegheny Gateway’s Civic Engagement Office and other volunteers from the College will be engaging in a socially distant Front Door Food Drive on Thursday, December 10, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. All food donors have to do is sign up by Tuesday, December 8, for pick-up on their porches or elsewhere that’s visible

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Allegheny’s Gateway Network Aims to Develop Local Community Assets

by Richard Stanley November 11th 2020

It’s been a year since Allegheny College established the Gateway Network, which builds partnerships between the college and businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations and other community entities and focuses not on the “problems” in the Crawford County community, but on the “assets” of the area to enhance their effectiveness. To say the program has been

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Allegheny Employees Act Together to Prepare Campus for Arrival of Students

by Richard Stanley July 30th 2020

On a steamy morning in late July, Tiffany Hrach immersed herself in her hot and grimy work —- pulling weeds and dead vegetation from the gardens surrounding the Prayer and Meditation House on the Allegheny College campus. “I want to make the campus look pretty for the return of our students,” said Hrach, a 2001

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Allegheny College Senior Devotes Free Time to Charitable Efforts

by Richard Stanley July 27th 2020

Alexandra Downer, a rising senior from Pittsburgh, has a busy academic schedule at Allegheny College as a psychology major and an education studies minor, but she finds the time and energy to boost fundraising on behalf of her Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter and the patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee. Downer

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