{"id":1437,"date":"2020-05-19T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T21:12:14","slug":"umw-coar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/features\/umw-coar\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW COAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emily Freehling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much do Mary Washington students engage with the broader Fredericksburg community?<\/p>\n<p>That question has been discussed in the city for as long as the school has sat on Marye\u2019s Heights. But there are plenty of community connections to be found in the experience of <strong>Carleigh Rahn \u201922<\/strong>, an education major from Loudoun County.<\/p>\n<p>Rahn talks fondly of helping an older campus neighbor with yard work as part of UMW\u2019s annual Good Neighbor Day. Afterward, she stayed for coffee and brownies and heard his history of serving in the military and living in England.<\/p>\n<p>One day she was stopped at a traffic light when two little girls rolled down the rear window in the adjacent car and began yelling her name. These were children she had tutored at the Bragg Hill Family Life Center, which serves at-risk youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true connection,\u201d Rahn said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy how much you get to feel a part of someone else\u2019s life here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4144,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/magazine.umw.edu\\\/spring2020\\\/features\\\/umw-coar\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:113970330}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 946px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"946\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-3\" style=\"width: 468px; height: 946px;\" data-original-width=\"468\" data-original-height=\"946\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/features\/umw-coar\/attachment\/good-neighbor-yard-web\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"464\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"308\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1439\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"710,470\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;NOAH_STROBEL&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Good Neighbor yard-WEB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?fit=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?fit=710%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?w=464&#038;h=308&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?resize=690%2C457&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-yard-WEB.jpg?resize=465%2C308&amp;ssl=1 465w\" width=\"464\" height=\"308\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"464\" data-original-height=\"308\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Good Neighbor yard-WEB\" alt=\"Students prepare garden soil in a Fredericksburg resident\u2019s yard during COAR\u2019s 2019 Good Neighbor Day. (Noah Strobel \u201920)\" style=\"width: 464px; height: 308px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Students prepare garden soil in a Fredericksburg resident\u2019s yard during COAR\u2019s 2019 Good Neighbor Day. (Noah Strobel \u201920) <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/features\/umw-coar\/attachment\/coar-web\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"464\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"309\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1438\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"710,473\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;No usage without written permission. \\u00a92020 Adam Ewing&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"COAR WEB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?fit=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?fit=710%2C473&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?w=464&#038;h=309&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?resize=690%2C460&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/COAR-WEB.jpg?resize=465%2C310&amp;ssl=1 465w\" width=\"464\" height=\"309\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"464\" data-original-height=\"309\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"COAR WEB\" alt=\"Pictured from left are Sarah Dewees, associate director of the Center for Community Engagement; Carleigh Rahn \u201922, who manages COAR\u2019s internship program; Taylor Coleman \u201923, who manages special projects; and Tamara McAllister \u201920, a COAR intern. (Adam Ewing)\" style=\"width: 464px; height: 309px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Pictured from left are Sarah Dewees, associate director of the Center for Community Engagement; Carleigh Rahn \u201922, who manages COAR\u2019s internship program; Taylor Coleman \u201923, who manages special projects; and Tamara McAllister \u201920, a COAR intern. (Adam Ewing) <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/features\/umw-coar\/attachment\/good-neighbor-day-web\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"464\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"317\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1440\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"710,485\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer@2018&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Good Neighbor-Day WEB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?fit=300%2C205&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?fit=710%2C485&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?w=464&#038;h=317&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?resize=690%2C471&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/Good-Neighbor-Day-WEB.jpg?resize=465%2C318&amp;ssl=1 465w\" width=\"464\" height=\"317\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"464\" data-original-height=\"317\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Good Neighbor-Day WEB\" alt=\"For three decades, COAR, Community Outreach and Resources, has helped students help the community. For COAR\u2019s 2018 Good Neighbor Day students gathered early before assisting residents with yardwork and outdoor chores. They ended with a picnic on Ball Circle for volunteers and the neighbors they helped. (Norm Shafer)\" style=\"width: 464px; height: 317px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> For three decades, COAR, Community Outreach and Resources, has helped students help the community. For COAR\u2019s 2018 Good Neighbor Day students gathered early before assisting residents with yardwork and outdoor chores. They ended with a picnic on Ball Circle for volunteers and the neighbors they helped. (Norm Shafer) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 632px; height: 946px;\" data-original-width=\"632\" data-original-height=\"946\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/features\/umw-coar\/attachment\/liz047-heagy-web\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"628\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"942\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1441\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"473,710\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"liz047-HEAGY-WEB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg?fit=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg?fit=473%2C710&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg?w=628&#038;h=942&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg?w=473&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2020\/files\/2020\/05\/liz047-HEAGY-WEB.jpg?resize=465%2C698&amp;ssl=1 465w\" width=\"628\" height=\"942\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"628\" data-original-height=\"942\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"liz047-HEAGY-WEB\" alt=\"In 1989, Liz Baumgarten Heagy answered then-President Bill Anderson\u2019s call to organize student volunteers and connect them with the community, and COAR was born. (Suzanne Carr Rossi \u201900)\" style=\"width: 628px; height: 942px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> In 1989, Liz Baumgarten Heagy answered then-President Bill Anderson\u2019s call to organize student volunteers and connect them with the community, and COAR was born. (Suzanne Carr Rossi \u201900) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Rahn\u2019s service experiences have been part of her work as an intern and mentor with UMW\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.umw.edu\/communityengagement\/community-outreach-and-resources-coar\/\">Community Outreach and Resources<\/a>, known on campus as COAR.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, COAR marks 30 years of helping connect Mary Washington students with service opportunities in the broader Fredericksburg community. COAR is a clearinghouse that helps students volunteer with some of Fredericksburg\u2019s most respected community organizations \u2013 Hope House, Downtown Greens, and Friends of the Rappahannock, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>At the Thurman Brisben Center, a homeless shelter serving the Fredericksburg region, Community Relations Manager Joe Hargrove said that for years, UMW students have helped with cleaning, organizing, and providing entertainment for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is amazing to see our children finish dinner on Thursday and then wait at the front door in anticipation of the UMW students,\u201d he said. \u201cCOAR has brought a lot of joy to our residents over the last several years, and we are very, very grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, then-President William Anderson tapped student leaders to create an umbrella organization for service opportunities. UMW\u2019s goal of producing graduates with a heart for serving those around them has been a priority since.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson\u2019s call came to <strong>Liz Baumgarten Heagy \u201991<\/strong>, a political science major who was vice president of the Student Government Association during her junior year.<\/p>\n<p>On a student government retreat, she said, Anderson said he wanted to better organize volunteer efforts among students and connect them with the larger community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a movement overall in the country at the time,\u201d said Heagy, who after receiving a law degree from Temple University has worked with nonprofits most of her career. \u201cA lot of college campuses either had volunteer centers or were starting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heagy worked closely with Associate Vice President and Dean of Student Life <strong>Cedric Rucker \u201981<\/strong><br \/>\nto build the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents were out in the community in dribs and drabs,\u201d at the time, Rucker recalled. \u201cThis was a question of, how do we make it more holistic? How do we connect it to the university\u2019s goals and initiatives, its approach to learning?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it came time to name the organization, both Rucker and Heagy quickly recognized that the acronym COAR was a homophone of CORE \u2013 the Congress of Racial Equality, a landmark civil rights organization founded by civil rights leader James Farmer, who was teaching at UMW at that time.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Heagy feared the similarity would be confusing, but Rucker saw plenty of parallels between Farmer\u2019s inspiration and UMW COAR\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Lecturing to Mary Washington students in 1986, Farmer called the civil rights era of the 1960s \u201cthe nation\u2019s finest hour,\u201d because it was a time when \u201cmillions, white and black, found something to believe in that was outside of themselves and bigger than they.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helping students find a cause beyond a diploma and a career has become a part of UMW\u2019s mission. Promoting community service and civic engagement is the first goal listed in President Troy Paino\u2019s strategic vision, adopted by the Board of Visitors in 2017. It\u2019s also part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/about\/our-principles-and-values\/\">ASPIRE<\/a> vision statement, now visible on banners throughout campus. The \u201cE\u201d in the acronym \u201cASPIRE\u201d stands for \u201cengagement,\u201d through leadership and community service.<\/p>\n<p>Rucker said these ties to service can be linked to Farmer\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is our obligation as an institution?\u201d Rucker asked. \u201cAre we just here to grant diplomas, or are we really connected to the future? \u2026 I think having Dr. Farmer as a touchstone for that puts us in a very special position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To bridge higher learning with the broader community, UMW opened the <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.umw.edu\/communityengagement\/\">Center for Community Engagement<\/a> (CCE) on campus in fall 2019. The center builds connections among students, faculty, staff, and community partners.<\/p>\n<p>It includes COAR, as well as alternative service breaks \u2013 service trips offered to students during school breaks \u2013 and the newly launched UMW Votes, a nonpartisan program that educates students about all aspects of the voting process. The university offers \u201ccommunity engaged\u201d classes that include a 15-hour community service requirement related to course learning outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cService helps build citizenship skills,\u201d said Sarah Dewees, associate director of the CCE. \u201cUnderstanding how society works and what they can do to give back to society is a really important part of the growth process students go through while they are at UMW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Involvement with COAR also builds organizational and leadership experience. Students can work their way up through internships to paid staff positions, and, for three decades, the group has been entirely student-run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foresight they had to allow students to mentor other students and develop their leadership skills \u2013 it is really a brilliant model,\u201d Dewees said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Freehling How much do Mary Washington students engage with the broader Fredericksburg community? That question has been discussed in the city for as long as the school has sat on Marye\u2019s Heights. 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