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RU Engaged: A Community Engaged Byrne Seminar with Alternative Spring Break* – Community Gardens

 

Are you looking for opportunities to get engaged with the New Brunswick community?

After learning about urban gardening and community food systems in this interactive Byrne Seminar, you’ll dive into community-based gardening and emergency food projects during a weeklong Spring Break trip in New Brunswick. You will stay in a New Brunswick hotel with your peers and spend your days working with community organizations. While you continue to learn about community food security and how non-profits and government address hunger in the community, you’ll participate in service-learning opportunities.

 

Professor Kathe Newman (Urban Planning and Policy Development)

 

THIS COURSE HAS A MANDADTORY SPRING BREAK TRIP (March 15-19, 2027) and will require a brief application with a short personal statement. The application will be available in late September 2026. To be notified when applications open, sign up for the mailing list here: 

RU Engaged Interest Form

Instructor

Kathe Newman

Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Director, Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement