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Summer Service Learning Program
The Summer Service Learning Program is an eight-week service-learning course for approximately 225 students each year. The participating students work with agencies across the United States, reaching out in multiple ways to people in need. Notre Dame Alumni Clubs, the James F. Andrews Scholarship Fund, and other donors award a $2500 tuition scholarship to students at the completion of the course requirements. SSLP students earn three credits in theology for the classroom sessions in the spring semester, reading and writing assignments during the summer, and the follow-up classes when they return to campus. The application process begins on November 15 and remains open until February 15.
International Summer Service Learning Program
Despite dramatic changes throughout the world, we continue to see a widening
economic disparity between the rich and the poor. The lack of basic resources,
access to health, education, and employment remains the challenge for developing
and non-industrialized nations. In nations marred by political conflict
and violence, efforts of peace, reconciliation, and democratization are slow
and its affects are seen most clearly in the lives of the poor. As we continue
to face these and other global concerns, the need to educate students about
their responsibility in our global community becomes ever apparent. The
International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) provides an opportunity
to examine causes of poverty and to create links of solidarity across borders.
Spend eight weeks this summer with micro-lending or social venturing organizations in the United States. Microfinance interns will learn about and apply skills in marketing, reconciling accounts, meeting with clients, and visiting client's places of business. Social venturing interns will work with for-profit or not-for-profit social enterprise organizations that promote double- or triple-bottom-line strategies (financial, social and/or environmental bottom lines). Interns will use their business skills to promote economic development initiatives, assist with feasibility or business planning for a new social enterprise, or guide future growth of an ongoing initiative through capacity building and other strategic activities.
Cross Cultural Leadership Internship Program
The purpose of this internship is to provide ND students exposure and experience in Latino communities in metropolitan Chicago where they serve as leaders and students of the community in which they are working. Participants have the opportunity to witness and contribute to the strengths, issues and needs of the Latino community. Four students are selected as interns in community-based organizations in the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods of Chicago, Cicero and Berwyn. The Center for Social Concerns and the Institute for Latino Studies collaborate to offer this 3-credit course, which is cross-listed in Theology. Catholic Social Tradition, or Latino Studies ILS 35801, CST 33933, or THEO 33933. More information can be found on the ILS website.
Interfaith Worker Justice Summer Internship
The Center for Social Concerns will sponsor two students in the Interfaith Worker Justice Summer Internship. This is a 10-week program for undergraduate students who want to be active in the worker justice movement. Interns are placed at interfaith committees or workers' centers across the country, where their responsibilities can include outreach to the religious community on labor issues, interviewing workers' and business leaders, participating in local and national campaigns, and working on public policy.
