Return to Albion's Home PageAcademic Programs and DepartmentsAdmissions Information for Prospective StudentsCurrent Students, Faculty, and StaffAlumni, Parents, Friends, and Other Campus VisitorsNews HeadlinesAlbion College Sports InformationCollege CalendarSearch Albion's Web Site  
Campus Programs and Organizations
 
CPO Home Page
Student Organizations
Greek Life
Kellogg Center
SOAR
Liberal Arts at Play
Albion Today
Calendar
P250
Staff
Contact Us

Community Service

Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega is a coeducational National Service Fraternity, established at Albion College in 1991. Our threefold program consists of Leadership, Friendship, and Service. Our goal is developing leadership among our officers and members, promoting friendship with all those we come into contact with, and providing service to humanity. Our membership is open to all students who have a desire to provide service through programs on campus and in the Albion community.

Best Buddies
Best Buddies is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to match college students and members of the community who have intellectual disabilities in one-on-one friendships. Members make a commitment to spend time with their buddies on a weekly basis in addition to attending monthly group outings. Best Buddies is rewarding in that its members have the opportunity to truly make a difference in the life of another person. Many of the community buddies have few other friends.  These friendships boost buddies self-esteem in addition to making them feel special.  College students gain a friend and a better understanding of how life is for those people who have intellectual disabilities.

Child Ready Educational Activities Transforming the Environment (CREATE)
CREATE provides fun, educational activities for children of the community that enhances their knowledge of the world around them with regard to environmental and cultural aspects.  CREATE works to unite student members with children from the Albion community through weekly after school programs at the Whitehouse Nature Center.

Habitat For Humanity

Habitat For Humanity works in conjunction with the Greater Albion Habitat for Humanity to provide low-cost housing to families who display a need. This is done through the building and renovation of homes in Albion and the surrounding area. This organization provides a wonderful opportunity to serve the community and work side by side with its residents.

Service Project Appalachia

Service Project Appalachia provides students with an active and challenging spring break that benefits needy communities. The group spends the fall and winter fundraising to keep our costs down and when spring break rolls around we're off to the Appalachian mountain region. Our main focus is to help low income families by doing light construction work on their homes. We have a wonderful time getting to know not only each other, but the people and communities we visit.  

STRIVE
Students Together Raising Integrity, Values, and Excellence (STRIVE) consists of Albion College students and professors who work together throughout the year to facilitate and mentor small groups of Albion Middle School students. In this way, a positive community connection is created, as leadership opportunities for middle school students are fostered, and the city of Albion is enhanced.

Student Volunteer Bureau

Student Volunteer Bureau (SVB) is composed of a student director and nine coordinators who are responsible for supporting and supplying services to existing volunteer programs and assisting in developing new ones. These programs extend into the community of Albion, as well as at the college itself. SVB is also part of the national Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), Youth Service America, and Michigan Campus Compact. Volunteering adds a special dimension to campus life and is an important factor in creating a liberal arts education.

Wayfarers International Group for Service
(WINGS)
Wayfarers International Group for Service (WINGS) actively seeks projects which create the opportunity for our skills to benefit others and for the experience to enrich our lives as well. We are dedicated to the ideal of service and service learning. Intended as an alternative break, the projects undertaken by WINGS will occur outside the boundaries of the United States. These projects may include, but are not limited to, direct aid to people through the building and refinishing of homes to more environmental concerns. WINGS makes one excursion a year, generally during Albion College's spring break.

Organizations

Academic

Campus Media

Community Service

Diversity Awareness

Entertainment

Greek Life

Honoraries

Political

Religious

Special Interest

Sports & Recreational Groups

Student Government

Resources

Student Organization Handbook

Travel Policy

Briton Bash

Student/Advisor Contacts

 

Office Max
IMPRESS Printing

 

Albion College  Albion, Michigan 517/629-1000
Home | Site Index | People Directory | Search | Contact Us
© 2008 All rights reserved.