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Students have the opportunity to join forces with the Alternative Breaks program to go on service-focused trips, where they can learn about community engagement and lead initiatives against a range of social issues. Alternative Breaks is a service program managed by the Office of Leadership and Community Engagement, in which students can serve and/or lead...

Top Tier Award winner Rian Satterwhite helps ignite a sense of community service in UNLV students.

Cornell College senior Jake Engelken is ready to put his degree to use as a Peace Corps volunteer in central Mexico.

RIT students planted trees in Louisiana, revitalized farms and greenhouses in West Virginia, and repaired hiking trails in Georgia and Virginia as projects during this year’s Alternative Break.

Members of the WSU community are traveling to San Francisco, Hawaii, South Dakota and Texas to do meaningful work across the country for Alternative Spring Break.

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Hunger & Hope students on an educational tour at Stonewall Farm in Keene, NH. This spring, Alternative Break programming turned its attention towards local opportunities for students to serve, learn, and lead. Usually, Alternative Break programs take students and staff away from Keene, NH, to do a service-learning trip to another part of the country – or world – but with travel restrictions in place, this semester’s programs stayed close to home. “Meaningful direct service and the oppo...

Georgia Southern Alternative Breaks Program celebrating 15 years of issue-focused service March 4, 2021 Since 2006, students at Georgia Southern University have been going on weeklong, immersive, issue-focused service experiences known as alternative breaks. Throughout the Alternative Breaks Program’s 15 years, participants like student Caleb Parker have helped communities overcome challenges while bettering themselves in the process.   Caleb Parker Parker has taken part in two Alternative ...

Reem Yassine: ‘There were so many opportunities to become involved.’ Reem Yassine, a 2019 biology graduate who is now a medical student at Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine, says she chose to attend Eastern because of the many opportunities to become involved on campus. “The Honors College, Department of Diversity & Community Involvement, and the Biology department are examples of communities I joined,” she says. “I also really appreciated Eastern’s small class sizes....

Many students chose to use their Spring Break to volunteer in another area of the country or world through the Community Service Center's Alternative Break. Students had the opportunity to travel to Central Appalachia in Radford, Virginia, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and th...