Tag: volunteering
Pantry fights food insecurity
For three days before Thanksgiving, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life distributed boxes of food for students in need at the Interfaith Chapel.
Enactus travels to volunteer at an orphanage
Forty students and faculty members of the University of La Verne Enactus made a difference to the less fortunate but taking a trip to an orphanage in Mexico last month.
Report shows increase in college volunteers
Recent findings in a report following the trends in volunteerism among college students shows an increase of about 20 percent from the years 2002 to 2005 and attributes the increase in volunteerism to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Students benefit from required volunteering
To volunteer or not to volunteer; is that even a question? Well not if you are a University of La Verne student; it’s a graduation requirement.
Volunteers traverse globe
A slight breeze blew as University of La Verne senior Wanda Groppi watched the arrows pierce the target at the YMCA campsite. A sense of delight and confidence was reflected with a smile on Groppi’s face; she had made a difference in the lives of others.
The term ‘volunteer’ ought to be redefined
To volunteer, or not to volunteer that is the question. This semester I am enrolled in Core 305, Service Learning. I figured I would use this semester to get this class out of my way, so that when graduation rolls around, I wouldn't have to worry about it.