Connect and engage through service and leadership
Earlham develops leaders who are engaged both locally and globally, and the Community Engagement program helps students enact their impulses to make a difference in the world.
Community Engagement services
- Connect students with volunteer opportunities in Richmond and around the globe
- Form reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationships with community partner organizations and agencies, seeking long-term solutions to complex challenges
- Support teaching faculty to incorporate service learning, community-based research, and other forms of community-based learning in their courses, allowing students to develop knowledge and skills while addressing community issues
- Encourage student engagement with movements for social justice, public policy, and voter education and registration
- Provide students with information about service and social justice opportunities open to recent college graduates
- Administer the Bonner Scholars Program and the Engaged Scholars Program, service scholarship programs
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LAST UPDATED: December 1, 2022
At this time, fully vaccinated* students may participate in in-person, off-campus activities such as Epic Advantage-funded activities and community engagement in the following locations:
in the United States
in a student’s home country other than …