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2011

Alternative Spring Break

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An Exhibition In Student Leadership: The Academic Alternative Spring Break Experience, Elise M. Glidden Ms., Ryan Kilpatrick May 2011

An Exhibition In Student Leadership: The Academic Alternative Spring Break Experience, Elise M. Glidden Ms., Ryan Kilpatrick

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An Exhibition in Student Leadership: The Academic Alternative Spring Break Experience

Ryan Kilpatrick and Elise Glidden

Faculty Sponsor: Gail Faris, Women’s Center

The Academic Alternative Spring Break program was founded at URI by Gail Faris six years ago in an effort to introduce students to the ideas of service learning, social justice, and what it means to be a concerned citizen. We were first introduced to this idea in the spring of 2009, when we took the course, Classroom without Borders: Academic Alternative Spring Break. It was about a year later that we both decided that our senior project would …