Why Community Leadership Needs to be Included in the Conversation on Poverty

By Lauren Sava, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow Starting off my year as an AmeriCorps VISTA/Rochester Youth Year (RYY) Fellow, I was no stranger to the poverty statistics in Rochester.…

by Taylor Cook, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow  Rochester, New York – a city notorious for its incredibly low graduation rates and its incredibly high levels of poverty. These statistics…

The following is a guest blog post by UR student MaryAnna Krewson, who serves as a tutor with RCCL’s LEAP program and as an academic coach with TOUR.  This summer I…

The following entry is adapted from remarks given to new students of the University by Glenn Cerosaletti, as the students prepared to embark upon Wilson Day, a day of service,…

by Megan Ryan, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow There are many people in this world that have thoughts on solving poverty. In Rochester, I have witnessed many individuals in all different…

by Jillian Latorre, RCCL Student Intern Transition Opportunities at UR (TOUR) Student In my opinion, leadership is about being reliable, giving it your best and advocating others. It is easy to…

by Evan Burnett, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow As I sit back and think about my year as a Rochester Youth Year Americorps*VISTA member, I can’t help but think about…

By Matias Piva ’14, who currently serves as an Americorps*VISTA member with the Rochester Youth Year Fellowship program. This is the first in a series of guest posts by current…

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the biennial meeting of the Reinvention Center in Arlington, VA, along with Dean Richard Feldman and two other colleagues from the College. The…

by Andrew Cutillo ’13 How John F. Kennedy decided to run for president provides  an inspiring tale for today’s Millennials. As a young freshman Senator, he was expected to keep…