In Service to the Community:
The University Community Service Center (UCSC) fosters the development of civic-minded students by providing substantive community service opportunities through community partnerships based on mutual trust and respect. If you have questions—how to get involved as a student or how to connect to students as a community organization—please contact us.

Haiti Earthquake Response:

Many of you want to help the people of Haiti. UCSC has assembled a web page with guidance and links to international relief organizations.

Also, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs has information on a student-led fundraising, clothing and toiletries drive, with drop-off sites at the Reynolds Club and at OMSA’s office at 5710 S. Woodlawn. As other new efforts arise, we will make note of that on the University’s web site.

A special space has been set aside in Rockefeller Chapel for those who want to pray or grieve or leave remembrances of those affected by the earthquake. Members of the University's many faith communities will be remember the people of Haiti at their regular gatherings, and special prayers will be included in Sunday morning worship at Rockefeller at 11 a.m. An interfaith act of remembrance will take place at the Chapel on Tuesday January 19 at 5 p.m., a week after the time of the earthquake.

If you have any new relief efforts, observances at the University, questions or suggestions about the University’s response to the disaster in Haiti, please email ucsc@uchicago.edu.

Summer Links:
Thank you to all students who applied to participate in Summer Links 2010! Although the student application deadline has passed, organizations are still welcome to apply to host a Summer Links intern.

Please click here to download the Summer Links 2010 Host Site Application.

MLK Day of Service - Saturday, January 16, 2010:
Volunteer with students, faculty, and staff at the the MLK Day of Service on Saturday, January 16, 2010. We will gather on campus at 8:30 am, do service at various sites from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm and return to campus by 2:00 pm.

2010 Student Activist Conference - Saturday, January 30, 2010:
10am - 4pm at Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th Street). The Student Activist Conference is an annual event offering an opportunity for students at the University of Chicago to learn the skills and tools to be activists. This year's theme is Working Across Difference, and through the keynote address and the workshops which follow, the conference seeks to challenge and work through ideas on how one can be an active student and work within, across, and on issues of difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.), and how these differences play into the work that someone does. Register here this year's conference.