Alternative Spring Break
Steve Stephens II
Office of Greek Life & Community Service
301-860-3837
sstephens@bowiestate.edu
Alternative Spring Break is a service enrichment program designed to connect BSU students with community service opportunities and to enhance student development through leadership training, social awareness, and cultural experience.
Alternative Break trips offer unique opportunities to integrate all of our core values in intensive,accessible, and relevant ways as participants take part in transformative short-term immersionprograms throughout the world. Alternative Break trips are coordinated through BSU’s Office ofGreek Life and Community Service, The office works closely with student leaders to ensure thattrips are safe, well organized, and educational while maintaining a focus on social justice,cultural enrichment, and community service.
Program Goals
- Create service based programming to assist those with a need for civic, social, or philanthropic change;
- Work with local, state, and national service based organizations provide opportunities for our students to serve and give
- Connect our matriculating students, staff, and faculty with service events to learn and develop the service based skillset needed to succeed post graduation
- To work with our Provost, professors, and academic staff to create academic based enrichment opportunities
- To provide our students with events, workshops, and forums that create lifelong bonds of friendship and sincere need to serve the greater community
