Over 325 students and staff members travelled around the country last week on service and immersion trips as part of the Alternative Breaks Program, which added seven new trips this year, including the...
In an effort to increase reflection and service beyond the one week of spring break, the Center for Social Justice’s Alternative Spring Break program expanded pre- and post-trip activities starting...
I have spent the past few days thinking about the concept of strength. What does it mean? Who has it? Where does it come from? How do we get more of it? What kinds of it are we seeking?
This reflection...
Participants on this year’s Alternative Spring Break will see a more cohesive, multidimensional program incorporating reflection into all aspects of the trip than in previous years.
Since its inception...
Participants in several Alternative Spring Break trips and the Magis Immersion and Justice Program sponsored a week of events to share their experiences learning about the lives of immigrants and migrant...
For most participants in Alternative Spring Break programs, the experience lasts a week.
But for ASB leaders, the trips are the culmination of a process that begins almost a year before the first...
While the Alternative Spring Break trips through the Center for Social Justice attract hundreds of students, a handful of Hoyas will traverse the globe with other programs next week.
Through an Outdoor...
The Alternative Spring Break program will offer two new trips this spring, delving into changing social issues with one trip to New York and Washington, D.C., and another to Detroit.
The two trips,...
Exploring the moral issues surrounding labor justice in the American agricultural system, the "Food Justice: Growing a Movement" talk Tuesday aimed to shed light on the poor working conditions within the...
After School Kids: Students in this program mentor court-involved children throughout D.C. and "seek to empower youth to make positive changes in their lives by challenging them with new learning opportunities...
To the Editor:
During this past spring break, 211 students and staff from across campus had the opportunity to live in and learn from communities throughout the U.S. Whether hanging drywall,...
For many college students, the words "spring break" conjure up images of lying on an exotic beach — or at least the couch.
For 211 Georgetown students and four faculty members, however, last week's...
