CHARP

We want to send out a big congratulations to Melissa Currie for completing her dissertation. The title of her dissertation is Assessing community resilience at the neighborhood level in new construction starter-homes in Charlotte, North Carolina. Melissa has been an integral part of our CHARP team, bringing a number of unique perspectives to the issues […]

CHARP representatives presented and attended a number of conferences during the 2014-2015 school year. Society for Conservation Biology Imagining America Conference ACSP Conference – Thresholds for Habitat for Humanity Houses in Low-income Neighborhoods – A Case Study of Charlotte NC Association of American Geographers Conference Urban Affairs Conference Upcoming: Tara Bengle will be presenting her […]

The CHARP team created a poster demonstrating how Dr. Sorensen’s GEOG 2000 course provides a unique experience for students. The Service Learning/Engaged Scholarship Showcase featured poster presentations from many disciplines describing the use of service learning and engaged scholarship projects across campus. Projects were diverse and featured case studies, best practices, lessons learned, and innovations […]

Elizabeth Morrell, Joe Howarth, and Dr. Janni Sorensen’s article has been published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. The article’s citation and abstract are below. We are very excited to share our experiences and support the CHARP model in other higher education contexts. Morrell, E., Sorensen, J. & Howarth, J. (2015). The […]

The Charlotte Post detailed the partnership between Angel Hjarding’s Butterfly Highway and the Druid Hills Neighborhood as they work together to reintroduce vital pollinators across Charlotte. The Butterfly Highway also touched down at Moore Place as the tenants built butterfly gardens. Moore Place has become a notable and vital example of Charlotte’s commitment to end […]

Cache Owens has successfully completed her Master’s Thesis in Geography. The title: Black Farms Matter: Black Farmers, Community Organizing, and Farmland Preservation. This research contributes to a larger body of work aimed at highlighting the importance of black farmers. This project analyzed the spatial distribution of black farmers in North Carolina, and the local farmland […]

We are very proud of Tara who has completed her doctoral dissertation, “Learning and Understanding Empowerment Planning: An Emergent Model That Builds Community Capacity to Affect Neighborhood Planning Outcomes.” Tara has been one of the longest-serving members of the CHARP team and we look forward to working with her in the future as we shift […]

An interesting article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about the risks academics take when they engage in activism. When Activism Is Worth the Risk

The students of the Neighborhood Planning class spent a morning volunteering in the Druid Hills Neighborhood community garden. Druid Hills hosted a volunteer day on October 14, 2015 to get a few small projects done in the garden. The students helped to spread compost and top soil, pull weeds, spread materials, and light clean up. […]

Liz Morrell presented ongoing research related to Habitat for Humanity at this year’s Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Houston, TX. The presentation was called BUILDING HOPE OR CONCENTRATING POVERTY: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’S IMPACT ON URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS. The presentation was well received and documented some of our quantitative work around the impact of Habitat […]