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Are you a volunteer? Helping others enriches your educational experience, addresses community needs, and develops character and leadership.
Many KSC faculty members have incorporated volunteerism for students into their classes, an approach known as service learning.
 In the college's early days, activist Margaret Sanger exhorted students to "Enter to learn, go forth to serve." By World War II, it had become a way of life: Above, students helped short-handed local farmers with their potato harvest.
Last year, for example, every student in the Women's Studies capstone class connected with a community partner and established goals.
One student organized records and created an oral history for an agency that helps low-income women join the workforce.
Another met with a group of elementary school girls once a week and developed appropriate programming to teach about cultural pressures and feminism.
Yet another organized Violence Prevention Week at Keene High School; one student tackled the knotty problem of transportation and child-care needs for women transitioning from the home to jobs.
Every year, students in Professor Temple's collaborative architecture course, known as Communicorps, design projects for local nonprofit organizations, such as affordable housing, school additions, or summer camp bunkhouses.
Many other volunteer projects happen without a specific classroom connection. Keene State students contributed more than 15,000 hours last year in volunteer student activities, from being a Big Brother or Big Sister to volunteering at a local dairy farm or building houses in Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity.
They bring the college motto, "Enter to learn; go forth to serve," to life.
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History major Jenny Belmont is president of the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Club on campus. At the 2008 Academic Excellence Conference, she addressed the audience about the origins of the eugenics movement in the late 19th century and its impact on Nazi ideology in the 1930s.
River Clean-up day draws enthusiastic support from College Greek and other organizations. Not sure how to help? Each year we hold a community service fair to show an array of volunteer opportunities. Or contact the Community Service Office on campus.
During this year's Alternative Spring Break this team planted palm trees at the Everglades Outpost. Then they were off to Monkey Jungle, where they worked in a 50-acre manmade rainforest picking air potatoes amidst hundreds of squirrel monkeys running wild in the trees. Read more in Keene State Today
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