APLU Names UNC Greensboro as 2021 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award Winner

Washington, DC – In recognition of extraordinary community outreach, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today named the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) the winner of the 2021 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award during a ceremony at the group’s annual meeting.

UNCG is recognized for its multipronged approach to increasing access to culturally responsive scholarship and community engagement. Through initiatives such as the Immigrant Health ACCESS Project (IHAP), part of the UNCG Center for New North Carolinians (CNNC), UNCG has helped create multi-directional pathways of health care access to marginalized communities.

IHAP reaches over 700 uninsured immigrant and refugee adults in Greater Greensboro each year. CNNC is transforming refugee and immigrant services as it also transforms understanding and scholarship about the issues facing these communities. CNNC students, faculty, and community research fellows have contributed 25 peer-reviewed publications and over 20 practitioner-oriented publications and reports.

In June, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was named one of four regional winners of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award. Those regional winners, named in collaboration with the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, automatically become finalists for the national Magrath Award. The other regional winners of the 2021 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award were University of California, Los Angeles, University of Minnesota, and Virginia Tech. Each of the three other W.K. Kellogg Award winners received $5,000 to support their community engagement efforts.