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24 June 2015 – Lexington, VA – Virginia Military Institute has made a grant to the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty...

The increasing nutrition gap between children from the privileged and children from less well-supported classes will be the focus of the...

Baltimore, MD – 11 July 2015 – Brown Advisory and A.C. and Penney Hubbard have donated funds to the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium...

Monday, 8 June 2015 – The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters writes about poverty studies in her current entry her blog, “To Do Justice.”  She...

29 April, Lexington, Virginia — Furman University, a member of the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP), announced...

“Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity” posted a commentary today by SHECP executive director, Harlan R. Beckley, “Why Don’t...

20 March 2015, Lexington, VA — The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium (SHECP) announced today that Marymount University will host the...

Interns from the summer of 2014 have written brief compelling essays about their experiences. Learn more about a variety of specific...

Dr. Mick is codirector of the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor at University of Notre Dame. Connie Mick, Director of...

Cabell Brand, instrumental in building the Shepherd Program at Washington and Lee and in founding SHECP and securing VMI’s involvement in...

Are you seeking an educational, career, and other life opportunity in the area of diminishing poverty?  If so, please visit the...

Cate Costley – SHECP Intern 2014, Middlebury College 2015 – will return to the Navajo Nation after graduation in May as a Teach for...

John Carroll University professor, Margaret (Peggy) Finucane, Ph.D., has received the 2014 David Hoch Memorial Award for Excellence in...

My specific role in the social services department involved “discharge planning,” which means that I initiated and carried out services...

At the clinic I shadowed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), a family health navigator, case managers, an insurance enrollment...

In this essay, I characterize the key aspects of the UCA, and Ellacuría’s arguments for why this is the proper way for a university to...

< In summer 2014, I completed a Shepherd internship at the Regional Center for Infectious Disease (RCID) in Greensboro, North Carolina. ...

Athens, OH, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 — Harlan Beckley, executive director, Shepherd Higher Consortium on Poverty (SHECP), visited Ohio...

SHECP Executive Director, Harlan Beckley, spoke at the Chautauqua Institution this summer on “Rethinking Poverty and Inequality: Changing...

Marymount University will host the Opening Conference on its campus in Arlington, Virginia, from June 5th to June 7th in 2015. More...