From left to right: Zachary Young (Student Manager) and Andy Mendez (Assistant Student Manager) posing outside of The CARE Resource Center. Photo/Deborah Gunsallus Food insecurity may force a college student to choose between having food or having the books needed for classes. Here on campus students have access to the CARE Resource Center located in Wellons Hall Suite C. The CARE Center provides hygiene products, produce, bakery items, dairy, meat, frozen, nonperishable food

Students gather for the “Party to the Polls” event in the University Center on Super Tuesday. PN Photo/ Zachary Young The Office for Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) in association with UNCP Votes hosted a “Party to the Polls” event on Super Tuesday in the UC lounge in an effort to promote political literacy and to encourage students to exercise their right to vote. CCE shuttled students who live on campus to the voting poll location at Pembroke Rural Fire Department on P

UNCP’s Community and Civic Engagement recently partnered with Reading Solutions Incorporated to expand teaching young children how to read and write. Reading Solutions was founded by its CEO Reginald Oxendine with the mission to increase children's reading comprehension in grade school. “We started off with two audio cassette tapes and a book. They [kids] listen to the tape, follow along in the book and learn to read,” Oxendine said. The website contains “over 300 hours worth

Community and Civic Engagement, CCE, held their first “Justice through Service Luncheon” on Jan. 30. As a part of a new monthly series started by UNCP student Taylor Strickland, the luncheon focused on hunger and homelessness at UNCP. The CARE Resource Center is run by CCE. It has a food pantry, a professional clothing closet and hygiene products for UNCP students, faculty, staff and community members. During the 2017-2018 school year, the center had 2,500 visits. Half were s