Humanitarian Center
The Humanitarian Center connects Pacific students, faculty, and staff with the community to serve the common good and facilitate learning.
Why get involved?
By engaging with the surrounding community, you can better understand social issues and how they might be changed. You can make a difference in someone's life, and gain new insights on academic subjects. Serving in the community provides experience and information for career exploration and the opportunity to acquire new skills. Joining with others, you can experience the power of working together for the common good.
How to get involved:
Visit the Humanitarian Center in Scott Hall 101 and check out information on community agencies and organizations, sign-up for one of our sponsored programs, or attend the Work and Service Fair at the beginning of each semester. Many professors incorporate service learning in their classes. There are also opportunities to participate in service programs sponsored through residence halls, campus clubs, sororities and fraternities. Bring your own ideas for service programs to the Humanitarian Center for assistance.
Community Service Work-Study is an option:
If you have been awarded federal work-study as part of your financial aid package, you are eligible to earn your award assisting at a variety of community agencies and schools. Contact the Pacific Career Development Center for more information.
Academic credit is available:
Peace and Conflict Studies 105, Introduction to Service Learning, offers the opportunity to combine service in the community with discussion and readings for academic credit.
Popular programs:
- mentoring and tutoring elementary through high school students
- serving the homeless
- teaching literacy to Latino families
- construction and fundraising with Habitat for Humanity
- cleaning up rivers and beaches
- visiting with the elderly
- service-learning on the Navajo Nation