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SHECP Welcomes Interns to 2019 Opening Conference
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) opened its summer internship season at the 2019 Frueauff Opening Conference,...
Jun 13, 2019
2019 Opening Conference: Session E
Session E: How Do You Do Your Job? (students meet in groups by work area) Friday, June 7, 2:45 – 4:15 PM See Presenter Bios I. Social...
May 31, 2019
2019 Opening Conference: Cohort Room Assignments
Session A: Meet Your Cohort—Teambuilding (Thursday, 7 to 8:30 PM) Session F: Living Together—Getting to Know Your City and Cohort ...
May 31, 2019


SHECP Academic Director Receives McLemore Prize
Dr. Stephanie Rolph, SHECP academic director, receives the 2019 McLemore Prize from Erin Kempker, chair of the Mississippi Historical...
Mar 7, 2019


SHECP’s Connie Snyder Mick Named Editor of ‘Poverty and Public Policy’
Connie Snyder Mick, director of academic affairs at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, has been appointed...
Feb 19, 2019


SHECP to Bring Internship Program to Shamokin
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) will add Shamokin, Pennsylvania, to the growing number of communities...
Feb 4, 2019


MLK Day 2019: Honoring Dr. King by Celebrating ‘A Day On’
“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education. The complete education...
Jan 21, 2019


SHECP Governing Board Welcomes Louwanda Evans as New Chair
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its new governing board chair, Dr. Louwanda Evans, an...
Jan 14, 2019


Building Hope from Inside
This past summer, I interned for Community Solutions, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in New York City. I was assigned to work...
Jan 10, 2019


SHECP Releases 2018 Annual Report
Read the report here. #financialstatements #nonprofit #annualreport #shepherdpoverty #shepherdconsortium #governance #Poverty...
Dec 19, 2018


Hamilton College Joins Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its newest member, Hamilton College. SHECP is a...
Dec 19, 2018


SHECP Named Accredited Charity by BBB Wise Giving Alliance
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce that it has been named an accredited charity by the...
Dec 4, 2018


SHECP’s Peters honored by Auburn Seminary with Walter Wink Scholar-Activist Award
Elon University’s Rebecca Todd Peters, professor of religious studies, and the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty’s (SHECP)...
Nov 21, 2018


RFP Deadline Nearing for CST Conference
The University of Notre Dame, a SHECP member school, will host the 2019 Catholic Social Tradition Conference, Option for the Poor:...
Nov 13, 2018


New Book Offers Ethics-Focused Approach for First-Year Writing Courses
Oxford University Press has just published a new book, Good Writing: An Argument Rhetoric, by SHECP governing board member Connie Snyder...
Nov 7, 2018


Connolly Family Foundation Pledges $600,000 to SHECP
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce that it has received a $600,000 charitable commitment...
Oct 23, 2018


Fighting the Battles to Win the War: Public Defenders Seek Justice, Fairness and Dignity for All
I spent my summer working at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City. When I told people where I was going I...
Sep 20, 2018


University of Wisconsin–Madison Joins Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to welcome its newest member, the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
Sep 13, 2018


SHECP Welcomes New Governing Board Members
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce the election of two new members to its governing...
Sep 10, 2018


Harlem Children’s Zone: A Summer Learning to Ask
As I got in the car to drive to Washington, D.C., for the SHECP Opening Conference, my dad gave me a hug and whispered, “Leave it better...
Sep 6, 2018
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