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
Earlham College, an independent, residential college, aspires to provide the highest-quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, shaped by the distinctive perspectives of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
