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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Five members of the Allegheny College’s Class of 2020 have decided to launch their post-collegiate careers as Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience (PULSE) fellows, spending a year in community service together. The five include Melissa Burnett from Pittsburgh; Elyse Cinquino from Buffalo, New York; Maura McCampbell from Houston, Texas; Sarah Shapley from Rochester, New York; […]
Allegheny College and community volunteers joined forces to work on more than 80 service projects in Meadville and Crawford County during the 26th annual Make a Difference Day on Saturday, Oct. 19. The event is coordinated by the United Way of Western Crawford County and sponsored by the City of Meadville, Meadville Medical Center, The […]
Allegheny College has honored dozens of students and student-operated organizations for their leadership on the campus and in the Meadville community during the 2018–19 academic year. Students and groups were nominated for the Annual Leadership Awards and Cornerstone Awards by community and campus sponsors and were chosen by selection committees that include faculty and staff. […]
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