Mission
The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center for Community Engagement empowers people to create social change in Memphis. The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center for Community Engagement provides opportunities that empower Rhodes faculty, staff, and students to address issues of public concern in Memphis and the Mid-South and creates social change by raising public awareness about social issues, encouraging deliberate and reflective dialogue, and community-based research, teaching, and scholarship.
Public Programs
Our Memphis Centered Lecture Series is a public lecture series geared toward promoting understanding and scholarship happening in and about Memphis and the region. The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center for Community Engagementcollaborates with community partners and other institutions of higher education in the region to promote research, teaching, and scholarship.
Upcoming Memphis Centered events
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Academic Connections
In partnership with department liaisons, The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center supports faculty curriculum development centered around activities that expand connections between the classroom and hands-on learning in Memphis communities.
Experiential Learning
Applications for the 2024-2025 academic year fellowships are now open: Apply today.
The Turley Scholars Fellowship is a paid, project-based community-engagement fellowship designed to collaborate with community-based organizations to promote positive, lasting social change. Students may receive academic credit for participating in activities that expand connections between classroom experience and real-world experience.
- Students may decide if their project proposal fits into any of the four categories:
- Arts & Social Change
- Urban Education
- Youth Empowerment and/or
- Housing & Community Development
The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center Conferences and Events
The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center for Community Engagement has hosted several conferences and events geared towards empowering people to create social change in Memphis and the Mid-South. Below are some examples.
The Lynne and Henry Turley Memphis Center in the News
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Past Programs
- Journalism in Pursuit of Justice: From Ida B. Wells to MLK50
- Community Response to a Global Health Crisis
- Memphis Colleges Service Coalition: Prison Reform and Mass Incarceration
- Healthcare Disparities in Medical Training
- Understanding Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism
- Are You Family? Black and LGBT+ in the Midsouth
- In This Place Speaker Series: 200 Years of Race & Place
- Why Bushwick Bill Matters
- Two Sides of the Same Coin
Academic Connection Examples
- Beale Street: Past and Present
- Elvis Presley and America
- The History of LGBTQ+ Memphis
- Intro to Memphis
- The State of Memphis Housing Summit 2019
Experiential Learning Examples
Past Events
- Back in Memphis with the Country Blues Again: A Symposium on the Past, Present, and Future of the Memphis Country Blues Festivals
- From Civil War to Civil Rights: Race, Region, and the Making of Public Memory
- In collaboration with Mike Curb Institute, The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center hosted the Beale Street Symposium and Memphis: Art and Place Conference
- The Pain into Power Symposium
- The Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center co-sponsored the Rhodes Health Equity Symposium featuring Harriet Washington
The Lynne and Henry Turley Memphis Center in the News
Event coverage can be found across the following websites:
- The Sou'wester (An interview with Yolanda McNair, whose daughter was killed by Detroit police)
- WREG-TV (Families of police shooting victims stop in Memphis to talk empowerment)
- Fox-13 (Rhodes College hosts 'Pain into Power: Weekend Empowerment' symposium)
- Tri-State Defender (TSDRadio: Moving to turn pain into power)
- The Daily Memphian (Families of police shooting victims gather for weekend event)
- The Commercial Appeal (Old Town Road)