Civic Engagement at Skidmore College
Skidmore College is committed to offering students the opportunity to enhance their liberal arts education through civic engagement.  While helping to meet community needs, volunteer experiences also help students to develop into informed, responsible citizens. Students can participate in service projects throughout their time at Skidmore, during community-service pre-orientation programs, as individual volunteers for projects and causes they are passionate about, as members of a class, club, or team, while studying abroad, interning at a non-profit agency, or collaborating with faculty on a community-based research project.

Skidmore’s strategic plan gives particular attention to civic engagement, calling upon us to create an institution that “empowers and inspires all of our students to make the choices required of informed, responsible citizens throughout their lives.” Informed, responsible citizenship is the third goal (of four) in the strategic plan.

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Office of Community Service Programs
The Office of Community Service Programs supports student volunteers in the community by identifying opportunities and facilitating placements. The Office also supports service-learning projects in academic courses and helps faculty and students identify opportunities for research that meets community needs.

Michelle Hubbs

Michelle received her B.A. in American Studies from Grinnell College and has completed post-graduate work at SUNY Plattsburgh in the field of Higher Ed Management and Administration.  She is had been at  Skidmore for nine years. Michelle worked at The Doane Stuart School in Albany, New York,as Director of Administrative Services,and as  Membership and Marketing Director at the Glens Falls Family YMCA before coming to Skidmore.

Benefaction Presidents

         
         Molly Kidder                       Casey Gold

Responsible Citizenship Task Force

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Co-Chairs

David Karp, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Professor of Sociology

Paty Rubio, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Spanish

Members

Crystal Moore, Associate Professor and Director of Social Work

Karen Kellogg, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

Marla Melito,Student Academic Development Coordinator

Christine Kopec, Assistant Professor Management & Business

David Howson, Associate Professor and Director or Arts Administration

Charlene Grant, Lecturer of Spanish

Michelle Hubbs, Director of Community Service Programs

Don Hastings, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Residential Life

Jim Chansky, Director of Summer Sessions and Summer Special Programs