Community Engagement
Community Engagement
社区参与是连接太阳城集团和李校区与周边社区的桥梁, be they local, regional, national, or global. Here students get hands-on experience, 以及通过合作为更大的利益做出贡献的机会, learning, and growing together with the community in mutually-beneficial ways.
社区参与是对课堂学习的补充和加强. 通常是通过社区参与，学生们体验到与更大的相互依存的世界的联系, find meaning, and make an impact. This is also where many students discover their personal, professional, or civic identity and find a sense of purpose.
By the Numbers
- The W&L社区在21-22学年为当地社区服务了28,465小时.
- 2022年毕业的高年级学生中有73%的人认为，这是因为他们的社区参与经历, 他们有责任利用他们所学到的知识来改善社会.
- 2022年毕业的高年级学生中，77%的人认为这是因为他们的社区参与经历, 他们相信自己能够运用所学知识解决现实社会中的问题.
- 80%的教师认为他们有责任为社区服务.
- 46% of faculty were members of a board of directors for a nonprofit, professional, educational, cultural, social service, charitable, or religious organization.
- 64% of faculty agree that W&L is collaborative in its approach to working with the community.
Leadership Programs
Through leadership programs, 学生们将他们对社区参与的热情与旨在帮助他们实现领导潜力和发展自由思考能力的项目的机会相匹配, critically, and humanely.
Community-Based Coursework
With our close ties to the community, our commitment to education, and our mission to prepare students to be engaged, responsible leaders, 我们在学术环境中为服务和公民参与提供了独特的环境. 学生有各种各样的课程可供选择，这些课程以互惠互利的方式将学习和指导结合起来.
Student Service Organizations
W&L boasts over 100 student organizations and clubs, many focusing on special interests, activism, multicultural and diversity groups, and/or community engagement, 还有一些人致力于当地社区和其他地方的服务活动.
Internships & Alternative Breaks
W&L提供实习机会，提供与社区参与和服务相关的有意义和实际的工作经验. During the semester and summer, 学生有机会进行职业探索和发展，并学习新技能. 全年的另类休息是学生服务和了解影响全国人民和城市的实际问题的独特方式. 校友们会接待学生，让他们在课间休息的时候为一个特定的问题服务和学习.
Work Study
学生可以通过联邦勤工俭学或大学勤工俭学计划申请各种校内和校外工作. 许多学生获得勤工俭学作为他们的经济援助计划的一部分. W&L的勤工俭学计划在校园的几个领域雇佣学生，包括学术领域, administrative, and athletic offices.
Learning in Action
By learning in, with and about communities, 培养与太阳城集团使命相一致的批判性智力和公民美德.
Lenfest中心展示了“美洲原住民和土地:与W的历史联系”&L’
The public talk will take place in Kamen Gallery on Sept. 27 and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
26岁的赛·切布罗卢(Sai Chebrolu)和25岁的瓦伦蒂娜·吉拉尔多·洛萨诺(Valentina Giraldo Lozano)是入选零饥饿实习项目的13名学生之一.
Ben Bankston ’25 is finding opportunities at W&L to challenge himself in and out of the classroom.
CBL Faculty Collaborative Generates New Community Connections
The 2023-2024 academic year at W&我看到，通过社区学习办公室(CBL)提供的一项新的教师发展倡议，为学生提供了几门新课程。.
威廉姆斯商学院的学生为包括市场营销在内的许多项目提供咨询, research and social media strategy for businesses and organizations.
W&L’s Fran Elrod Quoted in NPR Segment on the Blue Ridge Mile Clinic
Elrod担任该计划的大学顾问，该计划支持客户在获得或恢复驾驶执照的必要步骤中导航.
