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Dec 19, 2018

SHECP Releases 2018 Annual Report

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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 4, 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...

Nov 21, 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 13, 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 7, 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...

Oct 23, 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...

Sep 20, 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 13, 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 10, 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 6, 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...

Aug 20, 2018

Refugees Are Not the Problem, We Are

65.5 million. One person out of every 113 people in the world. These statistics represent the number of people who have experienced...

Aug 17, 2018

Nothing like a Password: Trial and Resilience in the American Asylum System

“We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the...

Aug 14, 2018

New Insight

“Ending toxic relationships since ‘08,” could very well be one of Judge David Matia’s most common sayings, ever since his Drug Court...

Aug 8, 2018

SHECP Interns Report on Efforts to Alleviate Poverty at Closing Conference

SHECP intern Margaux Curless, Centre College, reports on her work at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO). Nearly...

Aug 3, 2018

SHECP to Hold Closing Conference for 2018 Interns in Cleveland

CLEVELAND—The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) will hold its 2018 Frueauff Closing Conference, at the campuses of...

Jun 13, 2018

Congressman Jim McGovern Addresses SHECP Opening Conference

ARLINGTON, VA.—Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts was the keynote speaker at the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on...

Jun 6, 2018

SHECP Names First-Ever Communications Director

LEXINGTON, VA.—The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sam Kille as its...

May 29, 2018

Beckley addresses “Judgment Mediating Grace”

Lexington, Virginia (May 23, 2018) – Harlan Beckley, SHECP Founding Director, delivered remarks at the Baccalaureate Ceremony at...

May 7, 2018

H.F. Lenfest Fund Awards $250,000 Grant to SHECP

LEXINGTON, Va., May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is proud to announce our largest...

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