ALEX SUTHERLAND WINNER OF THE VC’S DISTINGUISHED AWARD FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 2012

It is with great pleasure that we announce MS ALEXANDRA SUTHERLAND from the Drama Department as the recipient of the 2012 Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Award for
Community Engagement.
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Student Volunteering 2013

The Rhodes Student Volunteer Program will be accepting applications from perspective volunteers from 11 February – 22 February 2013. ...read more

Top award for innovation

RHODES University’s Professor Alfredo Terzoli has won the 2012 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Technology award in the human resource development category. ...read more

Community Engagement Awards

A vibrant orange-and-white colour scheme and African-themed décor marked the occasion of the annual Community Engagement Awards held in the Oppidan Dining Hall last Thursday evening. ...read more

Recipients of the 2012 CE Awards

The Community Engagement Office would like to congratulate all winners of the 2012 Community Engagement Awards. The following students, residences, societies and community partners have made excellent contributions to community engagement this year and we wish to commend them for their excellent and worthy work. ...read more

‘A solution to the inevitable; not for sensitive viewer’s’

Amongst the Grahamstown community and predominantly in the townships we are all faced with pollution, daily. However, a cause of it– severely undermined and barely spoken of–are the non-biodegradable sanitary products. ...read more

The Future Of Our Youths

Ever wonder as a parent or guardian what the future holds for the youth of today? It is every parents hope and dream to see that their child is well off but for some that fate is out of their control. ...read more

Masincedane Society

The Masincedane soup kitchen is run in the Xolani community. One of the priorities is to make it completely self-sustainable, and we have started various projects in order to achieve this objective. The Rhodes CE office has been intrinsically helpful in starting and maintaining these projects. ...read more

Rhodes Volunteers

Grant Griesel and Julie-Anne Lothian, members of the Inkwenkezi Society, visited the Lebone Centre in Currie Street, project of the ICDP Trust, at the beginning of the 2010 and volunteered to be involved specifically in our supportive reading programmes. At the stage we wanted to extend the Love Reading Club to include literacy programme that would address the current low literacy levels of Children in the three surrounding schools. ...read more

SRC & Rhodes University Community Engagement

Community Engagement (CE) at Rhodes University (RU) still has the potential to grow and have a greater impact on the community as well as the student body. In order for this to be achieved, a strong network needs to be built between the student leadership at RU and the Rhodes University Community Engagement (RUCE). Once this is achieved and the student leaders understand the importance and nature of CE, we begin to encourage and influence greater student participation in CE. ...read more

Upstart

Upstart is as local youth development project based at the Grocott’s Mail and aimed at young people in Grades 8 to 10. This project was founded in 2008 as a way to responding to the low levels of literacy which were evident in school performance and the poor Matric pass rate, and was established by Shireen Badat with the help of Rhodes University Post-Graduate Journalism students and a few other key partners. The young people produce a 16 page full-colour newspaper that comes out eight times a year. ...read more

VUKU POD

What happens when a group of well-meaning students go into the ‘community’ with the intention to save individuals from the myriad of problems they see in the area? They start a vegetable garden- despite the fact that there are at least dozen other vegetable garden projects in the area. Redundancy, disinterest, a lack of communication and collaboration, are some of the problems encountered by those involved in community engagement programmes in Grahamstown. Something had to change; it was clear that Grahamstown needed a better approach to co-ordinating community engagement. ...read more

Ways of thinking about Community Engagemen

The Director of Community Engagement at Rhodes, Di Hornby, recently addressed the ISASA (Independent Schools Association of SA) Conference for School Librarians in Grahamstown. She proposed the following framework for thinking about Community Engagement, which consists of three different models that can: ...read more