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VISTA Member/Program Coordinator of Center for Student Voluntary Action, Westminster College, Fulton, MI

Join a team of energetic, committed, talented and fun people involved in a new servant-leadership initiative on a small college campus. Help take a house on the edge of campus and make it the center for community service programs, service-learning courses, dialogues on social issues, and a campus-community partnership program. VISTAS will be involved in on-campus and off-campus activities that will link students with unmet community needs. Free housing will be provided to two VISTAS who want to live on campus. Specific duties include the organization, implementation, and facilitation of student involvement in community service on campus; help coordinate the development of a new servant-leader center; assist project director with promotion of service-learning philosophy; assist with development of special service-learning courses; assist with

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

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