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Community service is exemplary of JMU's Be the Change spirit.
The Madison Experience —
taking JMU's service commitment to communities
About 400 people from James Madison University are heading to destinations throughout the United States and seven other countries to spend Spring Break, March 6-13, volunteering as tutors, shelter and maintenance workers, builders, and nutrition and health advisers to help people in need and to clean beaches and forest trails. That commitment is a key factor in JMU's recent inclusion on the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. JMU's Alternative Break Program is just one example of the scope and innovation of the university's service projects. Learn more.
Related: » About Community Service-Learning | » The bridge that Community Service-Learning built
Industrial revolution
Sculpture major Daniel Morgan ('10) took an insatiable desire to build things and applied it to a country ravaged by political and economic troubles. After a mission trip to Uganda, Morgan worked with professors and friends to design a mixer to streamline the vital brick making process he observed in the small village of Gulu. His invention is making a difference in the rebuilding effort in northern Uganda.
» Learn more» "Be the Change"
Perfect match
Take one local business needing talented and dedicated volunteers, add in students working on a class project in effective communication, and you get one step closer to a sustainable, democratically controlled grocery store. That's the story of the collaboration between five JMU business students and the Friendly City Food Coop.
» Read the story» Learn more about JMU's College of Business
Why Africa matters
Abundant natural resources, humanitarian challenges and the threat of instability and terrorism, make a continuing engagement with African peoples and countries vitally important for today's students and the nation according to J. Peter Pham, associate professor of justice studies.
» Why Africa matters—to me, my students and our country» JMU and global affairs
Headlines Events
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39 Teams Take JMU’s Service Commitment on the Road for Spring Break
About 400 people from James Madison University are heading to destinations throughout the United States ... More
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JMU’s Provost and Senior Vice President Announces Retirement
Dr. Douglas T. Brown, who has served James Madison University as an administrator and faculty ... More
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JMU Schools Combine Talents to Stage ‘Oklahoma!’ Feb. 23-28
Student performers from James Madison University's School of Theatre and Dance and School of Music ... More
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Headlines Events
University Holiday
March 8, university closed
Spring Break
March 8-12, classes do not meet
Children's Nature Art Camp
March 9-11, 1-3 p.m., Frances Plecker Education Center, Edith J. Carrier Arboretum
Classes Resume
March 15
Adult Degree Program Information Session
March 15, Room 3165, Memorial Hall
Artist's Reception, Dalya Luttwak
March 15, 5-7 p.m., Sawhill Gallery, Duke Hall
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Connect with Madison magazine
Madison, the magazine of James Madison University, connects you to the life of the university even when you can't be on campus. Read the latest issue.
