Alumni Club’s Relationship with SSLP Students

When a student commits to the SSLP, anytime from late January to mid-April, he or she is asked to contact the Alumni Club and the site within two weeks to make the arrangements of dates and housing. The Center for Social Concerns will email the student’s application to the Alumni Club SSLP contact person and we ask that he or she share it with the site where the student will work.

If you do not hear from the student by the time you receive the application, please call or contact students to welcome them.

During the summer, we ask that the Alumni Contact person or someone from the Club talk with students at least every two weeks to talk about how they are doing, what they do at the site and what they are reading for the course. Tell students about your involvement in service, social concerns and faith since graduating from Notre Dame. Most students are very interested to hear how others have attempted to integrate these areas into one’s life in a variety of professions.

Clubs are encouraged to invite SSLP students to all appropriate Club events, such as a board meeting, send-off picnic, golf outing, young alumni events, etc.

If the student lives in the same city, invite his or her parents to attend an alumni event.

Participate in evaluations with the student, site, host families and club members.

Creative Ideas Currently in Clubs

The Staten Island Club calls the students and their parents in the spring to address any concerns the parents may have about sending their son or daughter to the “Big Apple” for the summer.

The Cleveland Club and the Aurora/Fox Valley Club Contacts arrange weekly lunches with the SSLP students to discuss their work, questions and issues that arise for them.

The Alumni Contact person in the Tampa Bay Club visits the two students two times during the summer at their sites in addition to the bi-weekly check in.

The Orange County Club invites the students to work at their annual golf outing, the major source of funding for the SSLP scholarships and a great way for students to meet Club members.

The Chicago Club matches each student with a “mentor” from the Club who calls and meets with the students throughout the eight weeks.

Many club members in the Greater Sarasota Club invite the two students over for dinner, even when they live with another host family.