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Wilderness Orientation

Prescott College - AZ, Arizona

All new students at Prescott College participate in the Wilderness Orientation program along with upper-level students, faculty, staff, and alumni who help to plan this three-week long Arizona back-country expedition. The daily challenges of group expeditionary travel help students develop qualities such as compassion, patience, generosity, and acceptance. Students completing this program, which helps to illustrate the Prescott motto of “”The Southwest is Our Classroom”", not only have a greater sense of responsibility for the earth, but a better understanding of themselves and how to be productive and positive members of a group.

Contact: Julie Munsell at 520.778.2090 ext 2239

It has been the training I received through Maine Campus Compact in both problem-based service-learning and civic engagement that has helped me become a passionate and effective advocate for tearing down the doors between campus and community."

-Ed Laine, Assoc. Prof. of Geology, Bowdoin College

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