Alternative Spring Break
The Alternative Spring Break program offers students the opportunity to travel during Spring Break and provide service to a different community. Each year, students apply and interview for one of 16 spots on the team. ASB provides these students valuable experience in teamwork and meaningful community engagement. Students learn about the climate and culture of the destination city during pre-trip meetings, and are responsible for planning trip activities and working together to solve problems.
Each team member is also responsible for fundraising a portion of the trip costs. Numerous fundraising opportunities are available.
Each year, the destination is kept under wraps until the team of 16 students are chosen. Previous destinations have included Hot Springs, Ark. (2013), Long Beach, Miss. (2012), Memphis, Tenn. (2011), and New Orleans, La. (2010).
Click here to apply for the 2014 ASB team online via Axes, or click here for an application in Word format.
Service Partners
The Office of Student Affairs Programs has built relationships with many local community agencies that utilize student volunteers. There is a great need in the Nacogdoches community for volunteers and SFA students are an integral part of fulfilling this need!
All of these agencies have volunteer opportunities available for SFA students and potential opportunities for service learning project partnerships. Click below to review our listing of service partners.
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Service Events
In addition to connecting students with off-campus partners for service experience, our office provides on- and off-campus events throughout the year designed to get students involved in service and giving back to the community. Every two weeks during fall and spring semesters, an e-newsletter is sent out to our volunteer database to advertise upcoming service opportunities through our office and off-campus agencies. To have your event included in the newsletter, please
fill out our submission form. To add yourself to our mailing list, please email sfavolunteers@gmail.com.
What is Service Learning?
Information on service learning has been moved
here.
Students With Disabilities
The Office of Student Affairs is committed to providing support for students with disabilities. If you are a student who needs an accommodation to attend or participate in one of our events or student organizations you are encouraged to stop by Room 325 in the Human Services Building to make your request. You may also call us at (936) 468-3004, TDD: (936) 468-1004. If you have an accommodation request please see us as soon as possible, so we can make any arrangements necessary. No accommodations can be provided until a request has been made through the Office of Disability Services. To the greatest extent possible, the Office of Student Affairs, shall observe confidentiality with respect to any request for accommodation.Students who feel they have not been accommodated appropriately can appeal that decision utilizing the university appeals process. That process can be found at:
http://www.sfasu.edu/policies/appeal_proc_rel_stu_disab.asp