Like many of it’s peer institutions, Bennington College, located in southwestern Vermont, is offering to support undergraduate students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. We will be offering a place to any students who believe that Bennington could be the right place for them–either because they live nearby or because they can pursue a course of study consistent with their current academic plan. Since each student’s situation will be different, we are dealing with them on a case-by-case basis and as space allows.
My own service-learning experience helped me to change my undergraduate major to social work. As a student worker with the program, I gained so many skills that helped me to be successful as a social worker and change agent after graduation. Now I help student workers develop these same skills and find the same passion for creating positive change that I have felt.
-Kim Jensen, Assistant Service-Learning Administrator, Marquette University