The North Carolina Campus Compact awarded Charlie McGeehan of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill its third annual Community Impact Student Award for making significant and innovating contributions to campus efforts addressing local community needs.
The North Carolina Campus Compact awarded Charlie McGeehan of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill its third annual Community Impact Student Award for making significant and innovating contributions to campus efforts addressing local community needs.
In the photo, Charlie is with State Senator Vernon Malone of Wake County and Dr. Keyne, director of North Carolina Campus Compact. |
McGeehan, of Media, Penn., was one of 27 college students from across the state to receive the honor at the N.C. Campus Compact’s Student Conference in November at High Point University.
A senior Afro-American studies and political science major, McGeehan plans to pursue a career in urban education, justice-system reform and community work. He is the president of the UNC chapter of Student Poverty Reduction Outreach, the vice president of the APPLES-Service Learning Program and a member of the senior marshals service committee.
McGeehan taught 8th-grade history and French this past summer at Breakthrough Atlanta, a summer enrichment program aimed at combating the achievement gap. In fall 2007, he studied in Cape Coast, Ghana, conducting an oral history project about the Zongo community in the town of Kissi. He is currently writing his honors thesis on the Black Panther Party of Winston-Salem through a local perspective.
The N.C. Campus Compact is a statewide coalition of higher education presidents and chancellors. It was established to encourage and support campus engagement in the community.
North Carolina Campus Compact contact: Jamarl Clark, (336) 278-7194
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu