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Accessing Active Citizenship
On April 15, 2022
![student at Day for Admitted Students wearing a 'those who come here belong here' tshirt](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/students-campus-life-diversity-280x190.jpg)
Two years ago, I wrote about the member mentality and the Active Citizens Continuum which describes how our perspective on community engagement can change.
Finding magic in the unplanned: Highlighting traditions, culture, and adventures of the Samburu people
On October 19, 2021
![Five children smiling and posing with a working well](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/thumbnail_Samburu-Logo-and-5-girls-1-280x190.jpg)
By Erin Dowd ’21 In March of 2020, I was lucky enough to be accepted as a Summer Fellow through the Global Research Institute.
Relying on Creativity
On March 16, 2021
![painting of green tall grass in front of blue sky](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/landscape_efm-280x190.png)
When I first took the Life Values Inventory, I remember looking down at my results as Dr. Kelly Crace explained that Achievement, Responsibility, and
Dear Professor Pieper
On February 15, 2021
![three people smiling at the camera in front of forest](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20190518_195550-280x190.jpg)
Dear Professor Pieper, I know it’s been ten years since I was in your class and by now I can call you Chris, but
Learning to Transgress
On October 7, 2020
![View of wren portico through fall leaves](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/other-280x190.jpg)
How do I tell the story of five Office of Community Engagement colleagues reading bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress? I can tell you that the
Money Matters
On September 1, 2020
![students and leaders constructing a house on Barksdale Field](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/comm-engagement-service-280x190.jpg)
For the last five months I have been working to make sustainable anti-racism changes in my life. Having read a lot of internet lists
A W&M Sophomore’s Experience Conducting Research in Tanzania Through GRI
On July 24, 2020
![Five people around a table, two of them standing, working intently on stacks of papers.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-24-at-10.55.29-AM-280x190.png)
By Ethan Harrison ’20 “Alright, Ethan you’re up!” — with those words, I (nervously) began to present the research I had worked on for
What I (Don’t) Know
On June 19, 2020
![Female student on wren steps writing in notebook.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/campus-life-students-280x190.jpg)
About a month ago, I was on what felt like the tenth Zoom call in a row centered on the statement, “there’s so much
The Third William & Mary
On May 15, 2020
![A silhouette of a graduate in commencement robes and mortar board standing at the top of the steps to the Sunken Garden](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/traditions-commencment-2-280x190.png)
Years ago, I shared my reflections to the graduating Class of 2013 about their connection to the two William & Marys: Close your eyes