Walking the Talk

At Warren Wilson, we share your fierce obligation to serve your community. So we walk the talk. Community engagement isn’t optional at Warren Wilson. It’s required.

在这里，所有学生都将社区参与作为毕业要求。当您与我们的社区参与承诺互动时，您将深入思考您所热衷的问题，并与他人合作采取行动。

And as a member of the Warren Wilson community, you will be surrounded by faculty, staff and peers who are dedicated to deconstructing our most pressing social and environmental justice issues and exploring creative solutions right alongside you.

Explore Our Issue Areas

At Warren Wilson College, our engagement in the community is focused on addressing social and environmental justice issues. We find that the issues that we care about in the world are often connected and there are many points of intersection. Students engage with a wide variety of issues, but we commit the most time and develop the deepest partnerships in our designated Issue Areas.

• The Environment
• Food Security
• Housing & Homelessness
• Race & Immigration
• Youth & Education

How You’ll Do It

The Center for Community Engagement supports your involvement by providing a variety of opportunities, including:

• Service-Learning courses
• Alternative Break Trips
• Community Engaged Research
• Internships
• Ongoing commitments with local organizations
• Community engaged work crews

Serious Accolades

我们知道许多学院和大学为他们的学生提供服务机会。

但是，通过将社区参与融入到学习体验的各个方面，并要求所有学生都这样做，我们的项目在培养积极参与的公民方面做得更好。

And we’re not the only ones who think so. We’ve received some serious accolades for our commitment.

• US News and World Report “Top 25 Service-Learning Programs to Look For”.
• Warren Wilson College is 1 of 361 colleges to receive the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
• 我们被普林斯顿评论评为“最参与社区服务”的前10名学生。
• School of distinction on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
• We’re a “Campus in Action”.

What It Means

Annually, Warren Wilson students complete over 50,000 hours with local, national and global communities.

But we’re interested in more than how many hours our students contribute. We want to know that we’re sending young people into the world with the confidence and experience they need to engage in their future communities. Our alumni tell us it works.

• 86% of Warren Wilson alums indicated that their experience hereprepared them well forsocial andcivic involvement(国家比较:59%)。
• 75% of 2015 Warren Wilson graduates said that they felt theircommunity service contributed quite a bit or very much to their learning and personal development(national comparison: 45%)