Re-Imaging the Post-COVID Future for Local Communities

During this unusual time when students may be looking for ways to stay active while staying in place, the School of Social Work, Terry College of Business, College of Family & Consumer Sciences, and UGA Office of Experiential Learning have collaborated to introduce a summer initiative that offers students the opportunity to become involved while also benefitting Athens businesses in a post-COVID environment.

The project, “Re-Imaging the Post-COVID Future for Local Communities,” offers students from all UGA majors an opportunity to put their ingenuity to work while introducing them to “design thinking” skills that help create ideas for new ways that businesses—such as those in downtown Athens—might re-imagine their futures.  While participation does not offer students experiential learning credit, it does offer the opportunity for selected students to pursue their projects further toward an entrepreneurship certificate, a certificate program that some students already pursue alongside their Franklin majors.
 
The point of contact for this initiative is Don Chambers (donald.chambers@uga.edu) in the Terry College of Business.