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Community Service Center - Alternative Breaks - Current Trips

Spend Your Break Turning Ideas into Action!

Three times a year, students travel near and far to immerse themselves in pressing social problems.

Current Alternative Break Trips

Every winter, spring, and summer, the Center for Community Engagement & Service sends groups of 10 to 15 students into the world for hands-on experience with social justice issues. To give you an idea of what we do and where we are going this year, take a look below and explore our current trip opportunities.

Find a trip that inspires you? Click here to apply! You’ll have to create an interest profile before you can apply. You will be contacted for an interview after the application deadline.

Read here before you go on your trip about the challenges associated with traveling on an Alternative Break.

Deadlines

  • Summer Applications. Due 2/1/2013
  • Travel Grant. Due 2/3/2013
  • Notification of Summer Applicants. On 2/15/2013
  • Commit to Summer Trip & First Payment Installment. 2/28/2013

Check our Calendar


Winter Trips  2012-2013

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Indigenous Guatemala: Human Rights after Genocide

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Haiti Compact: Women and Youth Empowerment

Alternative Break Haiti 2013

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A State of Transition: on the Road to Democracy in Burma

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Youth Empowerment, Gender and HIV/AIDS: An Ubuntu perspective: South Africa

Alt Break South Africa 2012

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Spring Trips 2013

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Access to Higher Education in the U.S. and Cuba

Alternative Break Cuba 2013

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Balancing Sustainable Economic Development and Human Rights

Alternative Break Fracking 2013

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U.S. Corn Belt: Labor and Food Justice in the Agriculture Industry

Alternative Break Food Justice 2013

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Reproductive Health and Contraceptive Access in Puerto Rico

Alternative Break Puerto Rico 2013

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Peacebuilding and Integrated Education in a Post-Conflict Society

Alternative Break Northern Ireland 2013

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Queer Youth Homelessness in San Francisco

Alternative Break San Francisco 2013

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Summer Trips & Programs 2013

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Healing and Development after Genocide: Rwanda

Alternative Break Rwanda 2013

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Community Based Learning & Service South Africa

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Dalit and Women's Rights in Tamil Nadu, India

Alternative Break Tamil Nadu 2013

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Community Based Learning & Service Chiapas,  Mexico

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Tibet, Buddhist Ethics and the Environment

Alternative Break Tibet 2013

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Burma: Leaps in Learning Initiative

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