Skidmore College is committed to offering students the opportunity to enhance their liberal arts education through community volunteer opportunities.  While helping to meet community needs, volunteer experiences also help students to develop into informed, responsible citizens.

The Office of Community Service Programs identifies volunteer opportunities in the community and initiates service programs. The Office also coordinates student efforts to meet the volunteer needs in the public and private sector, and helps coordinate placements for service-learning classes.

The Director of Community Service Programs advises Benef-Action, the SGA sponsored student volunteer club and coordinates programs with the Schuylerville School District for Expanding Horizons.

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Report from Responsible Citizenship Task Force

How well does Skidmore cultivate civic-minded in our students?  When do we ask our students to articulate how they will use their education to make a meaningful contribution to the world?  This report is an overview of civic engagement education at Skidmore and a guide to fulfilling the letter and the spirit of Goal III of the strategic plan. The report begins with a conceptualization of civic engagement in higher education and then moves to recent concrete activities.  There is much to celebrate in this review, but the report concludes with a set of recommendations about how to enhance student civic engagement in support of our strategic plan.

Request for Civic Engagement Proposals

The Responsible Citizenship Task Force invites applications for funds for Skidmore campus projects that seek to advance Goal III of the College's Stategic Plan.  Goal III of Skidmore's Strategic Plan states that "we will prepare every Skidmore student to make the choices required of an informed, responsible citizen at home and in the world."  This funding program, supported by the President's Discretionary Fund, will support projects that increase students' civic engagement.  Applications may be submitted by Skidmore students, faculty, or staff.